Hitler slaughtered the Romani people by the hundreds of thousands in an attempt to exterminate them. The Roma Holocaust is sometimes called the Porajmos, the Devouring. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porajmos
I cannot emphasize enough that this is everywhere in Europe. Some of the most explosive disgust and contempt I've ever heard toward any ethnic group has been what (white) Europeans say about and toward Roma people. I've also heard, "Oh, they're EASTERN Europeans."
But mostly I hear, as an excuse for denying citizenship to people who have been in Europe for generations, "The Roma are... a problem. They're not from here." I've heard that from Toronto to Berlin. (I used to travel so much that it was part of my identity. Now I uhhhhh tweet)
The reason I would hear this, btw, is because I've spent years researching migratory and nomadic people as part of a larger project on climate change and borders. I was doing this on my own because I thought it would be important someday, and someday became now. So I was asking
In case it isn't clear from all this, I'm appalled that I'm seeing the treatment of Romani people being weaponized in the service of disinformation narratives -- again. It's the only time anybody seems to notice they exist, when they're being used to further a narrative.
But don't just take it from me romea.cz/en/news/world/…
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