Annual Report 2014 - Discrimination and the Roma community

Discrimination and the Roma Community 2014

This post opens the debate on the limits of humour in public media and whether this sort of humour should be

respected when it is at the expense of a minority subject to so much ridicule already.

32.

National.

Internet.

Direct discrimination.

The following comments about the FSG were found on an extreme

right wing website:

“NIETZSCHE IDENTITY GROUP

ARIAN ARCH-VANGUARDISM FOR ABORIGINAL EUROPEANS - ANTI-GLOBALIZATION - AUTOCHTHONOUSISM

- RACIALISM - ANTICAPITALISM - NATIONALISM AND SOCIALISM - SPAIN

26 July 2013

Secretariado Gitano, champion of the art of procuring public subsidies

Given that all people of Spanish nationality are considered equal under the law and the prohibition of discri-

mination on ethnic grounds, gypsies with Spanish nationality are entitled to all of the benefits of having said

nationality. However, in Spain there are also laws that, in violation of this prohibition of discrimination on ethnic

grounds, protect so-called positive discrimination (affirmative action) on ethnic grounds, and since Gypsies are

an ethnic group typically included among those to which affirmative action is applied, the result is that many

Gypsies with Spanish nationality also enjoy a number of exclusive benefits just for being Gypsies that are not

available to everyone.”

The article accuses the Roma community of being a sort of privileged group and also criticizes the FSG for re-

ceiving subsidies. This website features many articles on white supremacy and what they call “anti-white racism”

(the name they give to anti-racist policies).

The FSG wrote to the manager of this site and as a result the page was closed down.

33.

National.

Internet.

Direct discrimination.

These links with clearly discriminatory and racist material towards

the Roma community were received through the news alert service of the FSG.

Here are the links

YouTube:

Blog:

One of the blocked Twitter accounts added a message on YouTube at:

That closes with the sentence “A good Gypsy is a dead Gypsy” and a picture of a funeral http: // antigitanos.

blogspot.com.es/

This is a clear example of the sort of racism running rampant on the Internet, unencumbered by forum managers

or other authorities whose job it is to keep this from becoming public. These comments could be considered

incitement to racism which is a criminal offence under Article 510 of the Criminal Code.