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‘The place is empty, a lot have left’: Ballymena weighs up impact of anti-migrant riots
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is what I'm saying. We can't ignore problems and chalk up any outrage about it as just "racism". The article mentions how Filipinos generally were avoided, so it wasn't pure racism.
If there is a group of people causing problems, something should be done about it no matter the race. Or else nasty stuff like this happens.
This literally what it was - and is, reading reactions of these disgusting "people" interviewed. Unionist racism. Stop excusing these fucking animals.
Just fucking stop. There are bad people and good people, blaming "Romanians" as a population is racism - and BTW your comments are also sounding very similar in tone.
Because this is what it was.
Forget that it was Romanians for a second. Pretend that it was a group of English Football Fans.
Are you a Northern Ireland unionist by any chance? 🙄
Is that a problem?
Quite often yes. Like we just have seen in the article and in your defence of these racist fucks.
At no point did I defend them. If you had basic reading comprehension and read what I said without exploding all over your keyboard when you see someone dare give a slightly different perspective to the narrative you'll be able to tell that I was saying that authorities should do something to create peace in communities instead of just sitting back and calling people racists when the pot explodes.
That's precisely what you did.
What would be a "slightly different perspective" of pogroms of Jewish people in Eastern Europe in first half of XX century? Or perhaps you could give us a "slightly different perspective" of lynches on black inhabitants of South US? Or maybe give us "slightly different perspective" of pogroms of Palestinians in occupied West Bank?
This is what these unionist cunts were. Racist mob.
... And you are a racists apologist in the best case scenario.
I condemn it as I condemn this. But if you hypothetically had one of these groups rape another group, and an individual rapist got punished, I wouldn't call that racism. But punishing the whole group is.
And I agree with that. But we shouldn't just dismiss it.