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Originally Posted by Gobbiner17
Seems to me like if someone is annoyed with travellers behaviour and can convince a constable likewise, then it is easy to get them evicted. However, this thread shows prejudice (whether justified or not) against travellers and it is likely the constable has to take this into consideration before taking any action.
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I must relearn that lesson about never post when drunk! They say it's your real self coming out and I admit I hate prejudice and I always try to be fair.
All the politically correct stuff (not mine, but in general)? Well a lot of it is correct but a lot of it is far beyond common sense. It is crazy that laws protect the criminal but do nowt to help the victims. Where did it all go wrong? Yes, I suppose do-gooders went too far. But without do-gooders there'd be a lot good missing from the world, so slagging of people trying to do good and trying to be fair will not solve anything.
Racism? Perhaps these travellers were not gypsies. So by all means pull my exact wording apart. However, the travellers lifestyle is threatened, so councils by law have to provide permanent sites for them. When there are no vacant sites then they park where they like. Wrong I know, but did this failure of the system come about in the first place because travellers were unfairly prejudiced against, or did the travellers bring it on themselves. Probably a bit of both. But whatever the answer, it is a fact that travellers lifestyles are threatened and they have decided to go down their particular path of disrespect for the law and non-travellers. So they are a distinct group and therefore the law protects them against discrimination, whether it is actually 'racism' or unfair prejudice, as I call it.
Tealeaf, you can be racist against any person no matter what colour their skin is. Read up on racism as you appear not to know the first thing about it.
OK, lecture over, what next garinda?