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So painting gypsies as all being criminals is bad but painting all English as xenophobic is fine?
Did you read the spoiler?
So painting gypsies as all being criminals is bad but painting all English as xenophobic is fine?
The people who rock up and set up camp illegally, leave all their trash and burnt out vehicles when they move on, leave human excrement everywhere, nick everything in a 5 mile radius, cause property damage, intimidate the locals, yadda yadda.
Anyone involved with them is probably a "bad person", yes.
I try not to judge people based solely on "one thing" they say/do but try to look at them and their situation as a whole but, and this is where I'm admittedly a huge hypocrite, in a half dozen or so interactions over just 3 years I've had nothing but negative experiences with travellers including theft, violence, intimidation and so on, so I can't help but regard them all as "bad people" now.
One would assume you would have had lots of first hand experience and interactions with the traveling community,or someone living in a bubble preaching virtues
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So painting gypsies as all being criminals is bad but painting all English as xenophobic is fine?
Neither is fine.
It's a subset of gypsies/travelers that people tend to have issues with... especially groups that are happy to pull up and camp illegally in some area that is super convenient for them but causes chaos for the local community - ie. when a load of carvans pull up and park on a village green or occupy half of a supermarket car park etc... (and when they're prepared to stick two fingers up at society like that it tends to go along with other behaviours like a mini crime wave of petty thefts and a load of rubbish being dumped when they leave).
Given that that is often the typical way people encounter travelers then... I mean some other travelers you might well have walked past in the local supermarket and not even known they were travelers - it's the problematic ones that get noticed (and there isn't a shortage of them either).
What I find utterly distasteful, is the attitude toward fellow human beings like "neuter them all, they are scum of the earth, send in the army and open fire". It's a point blank refusal to make any attempt to understand the issues let alone solve them.