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Are we in 1930's Mississippi?

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  • 05-04-2014 12:16pm
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    efb
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    This is awful NIMBYism from the Cllr.
    Point 3 smacks of racism
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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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    This thread won't last long. Most people don't want travellers living beside them. They have a reputation for anti social behaviour.


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    shruikan2553
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    Oh this is going to get good.

    People would rather not take the risk.


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    efb
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    sugarman wrote: »
    The Travelling community are not a race!

    They are protected under the equality act


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    For Forks Sake
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    efb wrote: »
    This is awful NIMBYism from the Cllr.
    Point 3 smacks of racism

    Stealing content and comments from Broadsheet. Lazy.


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    BNMC
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    Fair play to Cllr Higgins. Her constituents raised concerns and she sorted them.


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    eviltwin
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    Is building houses that are only intended to be used for travellers not discrimination against the rest of society?


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    efb
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Stealing content and comments from Broadsheet. Lazy.

    I didn't see the article I saw the letter on twitter


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    suicide_circus
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    efb wrote: »
    They are protected under the equality act
    Then let them take a case against the council for discrimination.


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    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Not in South Dublin anyway. Put that on the Northside.


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    efb
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    BNMC wrote: »
    Fair play to Cllr Higgins. Her constituents raised concerns and she sorted them.

    I wonder will wind farms and mobile masts and pylons be next?


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    Gatling
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    A councillor working with and on behalf of a community isn't that what there suppost to do ??
    An issues which could effect a large part of the community
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    Pixie69
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    Sure it wouldn't be long before they'd be thieving from their neighbours


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    efb
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    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?


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    eviltwin
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    efb wrote: »
    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?

    Like it or not travellers have a bad reputation and not without reason, people are going to be wary with any suggestion of them moving nearby.


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    suicide_circus
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    efb wrote: »
    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?
    Jews generally work, pay tax and house themselves within the norms of society.


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    Muise...
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    efb wrote: »
    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?

    I'd imagine the reaction would be based on that completely different situation.

    Do the Jewish community need to be rehoused?


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    smoking_kills
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    Are we in 1930's Mississippi?

    No,
    travelers are not a race,
    travelers don't have crosses burning in their yards every night
    there is no KKK (or organisation like them) terrorizing them,
    travelers don't get lynched and hung from trees.
    travelers don't have their own toilets, schools or water fountains
    ect ect ect...


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    coolemon
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    efb wrote: »
    They are protected under the equality act

    And not enough so.


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    humbert
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    efb wrote: »
    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?
    Jewish people don't need to have houses provided for them.


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    coolemon
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    sugarman wrote: »
    The Travelling community are not a race!

    Learn the meaning of racism.

    Travellers are an ethnicity and discriminating against an ethnicity is racism.


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    efb
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    So as usual AH thinks it's perfectly fine to tar all travellers with the one brush....


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    Gatling
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    efb wrote: »
    If it was rehousing Jewish community what would the reaction be?

    Read up on your history Jews were badly threaded here post ww2 while Nazi's were treated like celebrities
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    coolemon
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    humbert wrote: »
    Jewish people don't need to have houses provided for them.

    They were talking hypothetically. Obvious really.


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    efb
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    Like it or not travellers have a bad reputation and not without reason, people are going to be wary with any suggestion of them moving nearby.

    I don't like generalisations


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    BNMC
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    efb wrote: »
    So as usual AH thinks it's perfectly fine to tar all travellers with the one brush....
    efb wrote: »
    I don't like generalisations
    Yeah.


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    #27
    suicide_circus
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    efb wrote: »
    So as usual AH thinks it's perfectly fine to tar all travellers with the one brush....
    Yeah its a problem. Maybe the settled community and traveller community could both work a little harder to live in harmony.


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    Muise...
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    Gatling wrote: »
    Read up on your history Jews were badly threaded here post ww2 while Nazi's were treated like celebrities

    What history books have you? The Chronicles of Browbeating Bull****?


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    #29
    smoking_kills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭smoking_kills


    efb wrote: »
    I don't like generalisations

    No Just over exaggerating.


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    shruikan2553
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    efb wrote: »
    So as usual AH thinks it's perfectly fine to tar all travellers with the one brush....

    Some travelers are fine, you just cant guarantee the entire family is and when the person shows up the area can go to **** as their "culture" involves turning a blind eye to it.


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    eviltwin
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    If travellers are just like the rest of us why do they need special housing then? What happens if a settled person needs a home, they go on a list and wait their turn. No one suggests purpose built accommodation. Why do travellers need it?


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