We just don't see why this warrants sneers at the Roma. The Roma had nothing to do with this massacre. Whether their "culture" is "begging" or whatever, is wholly irrelevant. It's sort of as if you had responded to Doug's shock and horror over 9-11 by saying something stereotypical about Latinos.
jks --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dammit, the gypsies are beggars because it's their
> culture. I want to see somebody concerned about a
> group that is really suffering, like, oh, I don't
> know, Ossetes. I realize most people outside of
> Russia
> don't know what an Ossete is, but there are 350 dead
> Ossetian children in a morgue, hell, probably a half
> a
> dozen morgues, in North Ossetia, killed by the
> "separatists" that everybody seems to think are so
> great. Who had nothing to do with the conflict other
> than being a target of opportunity because of
> geographical location. Dammit I need to go get
> drunk.
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > What happened there is appalling and everyone is
> > with
> > you on this, including, probaly, most Chechens.
> But
> > it
> > wasn't the Roma who had even anything to do with
> the
> > horror there, so why pick on them?
> >
>
>
>
>
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