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‘The place is empty, a lot have left’: Ballymena weighs up impact of anti-migrant riots
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Then, in our hypothetical example where your entire family gets expelled from your neighbourhood, why not bring up what your cousin did?
Bring up that it was our cousin and not us. Also hold the cousin accountable within the family. Work with the people who are pissed with the family for a resolution.
If my cousin raped a child, I wouldn't really have much sympathy for what happens to my cousin tbh.
"Bring up that it was our cousin and not us."
You don't think that the Romanians and Roma have tried that? It was all them that were ethnically cleansed. Not just the bad ones. We have the police when people commit crimes. Forcing people out of a certain ethnicity is never a solution.
At no point did I say that what happened was okay. But I know that it was boiling for a while, from people who lived in the area. Somebody wasn't stopping something that shouldn't have been happening. Whether the family tried or not isn't relevant, as the outcome of what happened shouldn't have happened either way.