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Child removed from Roma gypsies-This time in DUBLIN *Mod Warning Post #1*

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭cerastes


    You see thats the thing - people make false assumptions about Roma because they avoid them and never talk to them. It's not surprising that a lot of Irish people don't know Roma who work because a) Irish people avoid them and b) Roma who do work would hide their ethnic identity because of fears of racial abuse.

    If I see anyone begging, I'll avoid it or decline, if I had money to gift to charity, I prefer to choose where it goes, maybe the Capuchin Monks, seem to do a good service,
    Begging or stealing out of clothes drop offs are the only things Ive seen Roma doing, its unfortunate but true. Im not saying they aren't in a bad situation (or that all Roma do it).

    I think any person getting overt or covert racial abuse in this country within a job can easily have it shut down or dealt with, its practically a win win.
    But all kinds of people suffer all kinds of abuse from fellow employees and superiors in jobs and it can be much more difficult to deal with than something as clear cut as racial abuse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Donaldio


    You see thats the thing - people make false assumptions about Roma because they avoid them and never talk to them. It's not surprising that a lot of Irish people don't know Roma who work because a) Irish people avoid them and b) Roma who do work would hide their ethnic identity because of fears of racial abuse.

    Any Roma i ever meet was a) Smileing as they were trying to pimp out there quite young neice or daughter to me B) Trying to mug and rob me C) Begging even to the point of actually following me constantely asking again and again D) Forceing women and children to beg by sitting on the street all day includeing young wemon holding pictures of young babies

    That is not a false assumption it's real !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Donaldio wrote: »
    Any Roma i ever meet was a) Smileing as they were trying to pimp out there quite young neice to me B) Trying to mug and rob me C) Begging even to the point of actually following me constantely asking again and again D) Forceing women and children to beg by sitting on the street all day includeing young wemon holding pictures of young babies

    That is not a false assumption !

    So they all did a and b and c and d?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Donaldio


    I havent met every roma the ones who i have i dont appreciate there behaviour towards me or anyone else why should they have the right to ask for someones money for nothing ? You be there buddy you sleep in the park sit on the high street with a coffe cup all day play your music ! I prefer not to ok ! I have my own business believe or not !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Sigourney


    You won't see a r--a, t-in=er, din--le ma, p-r-r-r-t protest outside leinster house.

    Once more, in English, please.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭tiger55


    Anyone wrote: »
    This is a long shot, but perhaps the Roma Gypsies are lying?

    Racist.

    You will be saying they are always stealing next.:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭denhaagenite


    What does anyone contribute? Firstly not all Roma are beggars so obviously a lot of them contribute to the workforce and to taxation in this country. Secondly a lot of them do actually want to integrate and they contribute to local communities through initiatives such as that linked to earlier on in Blackpool in Cork and indeed they contribute to Irish society by putting on display their musical heritage through concerts.

    What the fcuk are you talking about?? Blackpool is destroyed by the Roma, as a woman you can't walk there feeling safe, I used to work in an office on the Commons Road and those leery fcukers were everywhere.

    You can be damn sure that any "initiatives" in Blackpool were organised by bleeding hearts and not by the Roma themselves.

    Apologies for the swearing but these people and those who are hell bent on making excuses for them just make my blood boil. They are exploiting and abusing their own and now it transpires other peoples children, and don't get me started on how are justice system deals with them as regards begging, robbing, scams, trafficking and impregnating of their child brides. Completely and utterly disgraceful. Last I heard statutory rape, or just rape, was illegal in Ireland.

    I say they send their children to school or get jailed or deported, and treat the adults as the organised criminal gang they are with proper sentences. Buying and selling children like they're animals. Unbelievable.

    Did find it interesting how the Romanian filmmaker who narrated that BBC documentary referred to them as Romanian gypsies and talked about how a lot of them were building houses in Romania though.... Thought we weren't allowed to call them Romanian?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    I said to my Dad the other day:

    Dad, I have a question. How come I don't look or speak like you or Ma?

    He says:

    停止问问题,然后回去工作。


    http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

    Brilliant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Did find it interesting how the Romanian filmmaker who narrated that BBC documentary referred to them as Romanian gypsies and talked about how a lot of them were building houses in Romania though.... Thought we weren't allowed to call them Romanian?

    Allowed? They are distinct from people from Romania, so yes you should distinguish the two. Roma are from Eastern Europe in general. It would be like saying somebody is Irish, therefore they are a traveller.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    You see thats the thing - people make false assumptions about Roma because they avoid them and never talk to them. It's not surprising that a lot of Irish people don't know Roma who work because a) Irish people avoid them and b) Roma who do work would hide their ethnic identity because of fears of racial abuse.

    I know one thing, if any Roma more families in Ireland have blonde kids, it's the one place they'll get ratted on. What with the attitudes toward them here!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭BurnsCarpenter



    Did find it interesting how the Romanian filmmaker who narrated that BBC documentary referred to them as Romanian gypsies and talked about how a lot of them were building houses in Romania though.... Thought we weren't allowed to call them Romanian?

    Well 'Romanian' obviously makes no sense as a description. That's not being PC, its just being accurate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Racist alert!!

    That was post #5!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Shock shock the Roma mother did have a child on the day she said this girl was born. The racism shown is quite worrying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    baldbear wrote: »
    Shock shock the Roma mother did have a child on the day she said this girl was born. The tacism shown is quite worrying.

    As worrying as your spelling?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Donaldio wrote: »

    That is not a false assumption it's real !

    It is a false assumption that all Roma don't work.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    WHOOPS!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,321 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Donaldio wrote: »
    Why is it with the Roma the always put the kids and especially always the women on the street to beg. What are the men doing ?

    Counting the money when they bring it back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,244 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Several posters infracted or banned for making huge sweeping generalisations.

    Knock it off. Full bans may be handed out from this point forward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,538 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Today is like a nationwide episode of Maury!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    They shouldnt even be in the country in the first place

    Why not?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,786 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    oceanman wrote: »
    I think your faith in the HSE is very misplaced...given everything that happened to children placed in their care in the past.
    Realise that those children were on a downward spiral before they reached HSE care - dysfunctional families, abuse, crime, substance abuse and so on. The HSE doesn't normally get involved with healthy, well-adjusted children from well-adjusted families.
    poolboy wrote: »
    Quote:
    The couple claimed the girl's biological mother willingly gave her to them as a baby because she could not look after her...

    ...DNA tests have shown that the girl was not born to the Roma couple.

    Perfectly plausible because if you couldn't care for your own child, the life of a Roma gypsy is the life you'd choose for them.
    But if the biological parents were also members of the Roma community?

    Someone previously mentioned that unofficial adoptions are common amongst Roma.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    What thell hell does this country gain by letting in roma gypsies,ill tell you nothing unless you think by them claiming every benefit known to man,begging,robbing, and pickpocketing somehow benefits this country of ours,

    You appear to be a pleasant individual.

    Do you read the Daily Mail perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Absoluvely


    Victor wrote: »
    Someone previously mentioned that unofficial adoptions are common amongst Roma.

    "Unofficial adoptions" sounds like a big dirty euphemism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,080 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Absoluvely wrote: »
    "Unofficial adoptions" sounds like a big dirty euphemism.

    It is, for the sale of children like comodities for the purpose of begging and indentured servitude, a very common problem within the Roma community.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,080 ✭✭✭conorhal


    It is a false assumption that all Roma don't work.

    Irish Travellers have an 80% unemployment rate, and that's in a country in which the share the same language, ethnicity and access to education as the rest of the population, none of which megre advantages the Roma posess, so what rate of employment do you imagine the achieve? My guess would be substatially higher then the Irish Travellers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    So if the child does turn out to be Roma as now seems to be the thinking in the media will we have a climb down from high horses from the people saying that all Roma steal children? Or can we turn the thread a full 180 degrees and start decrying the ineptitude of the HSE to make ourselves feel better?

    I would be extremely interested to see what kind of conditions the girl was living in since you to treat children very very badly for the HSE to take any notice. If this girl wasn't being abused in any way and she was raken by the HSE based on her " parents " what does that say about us?

    *I realise there is a lot of ifs there and I am happy to eat my words if the girl is not Roma, I have no particular love for them but I think the **** storm is getting out of hand when we don't even have any facts yet. *


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    So if the child does turn out to be Roma as now seems to be the thinking in the media will we have a climb down from high horses from the people saying that all Roma steal children? Or can we turn the thread a full 180 degrees and start decrying the ineptitude of the HSE to make ourselves feel better?

    I would be extremely interested to see what kind of conditions the girl was living in since you to treat children very very badly for the HSE to take any notice. If this girl wasn't being abused in any way and she was raken by the HSE based on her " parents " what does that say about us?

    *I realise there is a lot of ifs there and I am happy to eat my words if the girl is not Roma, I have no particular love for them but I think the **** storm is getting out of hand when we don't even have any facts yet. *

    The Star has reported (front page this morning) that it was a mistake, and they are her natural parents.

    I should have taken a photo... this is the UK front pages from last night -

    http://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/front-pages.cfm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    The Star has reported (front page this morning) that it was a mistake, and they are her natural parents.

    Id rather admit to dressing up in a gimp suit while watching gay porn than reading the Star.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Id rather admit to dressing up in a gimp suit while watching gay porn than reading the Star.

    I'm not sure if this is the right thread for your confession.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    "Abducted by killer spiders" tomorrow.


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