Annual Report Discrimination 2015

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Discrimination and the Roma community, 2015
Use of this footage in the news story:
• Strengthens the suspicion that these people —the only ones clearly identifiable in the footage except for the
police spokesperson— were involved in the criminal act despite the fact that there is no evidence of such
involvement and from the information we were able to gather they were not involved.
• Unnecessarily mentioning the national origin of the people involved and then showing stereotyped video footage
of Roma, serves to strengthen the association between delinquency and citizens of Romanian origin who are Roma.
37. National. The media. Direct discrimination. The FSG received an email from a Roma girl who complained that
the TV series called “Amar es para siempre” (love is forever) had introduced very stereotyped Roma characters
in the programme which presented a negative image of the Roma community.
The FSG reminded this media group of their social responsibility given that the negative and prejudiced image
of the Roma community that they were portraying contributes to the social rejection and discrimination of this
ethnic minority.
38. National. Internet. Direct discrimination. We have encountered racist and xenophobic comments on this web
page on various occasions:
de-
down-alzheimer-gafas-etc.html (have you ever seen a homosexual, down’s syndrome, Alzheimer or glass-
es-wearing Gypsy?
“They don’t exist. When a Gypsy is born with any of those handicaps they throw the baby in the river
and let it drown. It’s their custom.”
“One day when I was leaving work a Gypsy asked me for help because his car wouldn’t start so I helped
him out. Inside the car were his wife (even younger than him, 16 at the most) and the father-in-law was
in the back seat mumbling incoherently, completely gone as if he were having a stroke or something.”
“I was there a while trying to help the chap until other members of his tribe started to arrive. That’s when
I hightailed it out of there. Gypsies aren’t bad if you encounter them one at a time but when several of
them get together I keep as far away as I can.”
Despite having filed numerous complaints about this web page, its users continue to publish racist comments
about the Roma community.
39. National. Internet. Direct discrimination.
On the following web page:
/page6
We found comments like these which are an affront to the dignity and image of the Roma community and incite
hatred against it.
Thread initiated by ducatero749
I wanted to respond to him but yours is a hard act to follow...
If you’re unable to see through that absurd, simple-minded argument by someone who, at his age, still
believes in the left and the right like a child believes in the three kings (Santa Claus), then your level of
mental retardation should earn you a gold VISA with no credit limit to compensate your handicap.
But I guess it makes sense. Not much can be expected of you judging from the ridiculous stance you
took. [QUOTE] that ethnic group must have done something to you for you to have that opinion for
example. If you really believe that obscenity that you wrote you could get the maximum social security
compensation for being brain dead... I can’t understand how you could say that and not throw yourself
directly out of a 15th storey window out of shame for how Nazi that sounds.
Sounds Nazi (very Nazi in fact). But how would you describe the lifestyle of Gypsies?
Let me tell you... taxes 0, social security without contributing, street selling wherever and whenever
they please...