• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    By that logic there is even more reason for there to be a special word for being prejudiced against the Roma People (for those who don’t know, they’re commonly called Gypsies).

    By the way, the Nazis targetted them as much as they targetted the Jewish People, yet we almost never hear about the genocide of Roma People in the Holocaust.

    Two weights two measures, same as always: the Jewish People just went from the “untermenschen” column to the “ubermeschen” one whilst other ethnic groups did not.

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      1 month ago

      a special word for being prejudiced against the Roma People

      According to wikipedia you have several choices: “antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia”.

      Furthermore there are terms “porajmos (also porrajmos or pharrajimos—literally, “devouring” or “destruction” in some dialects of the Romani language)… Balkan Romani activists prefer to use the term samudaripen (“mass killing”)” to describe the holocaust on Romani people.

      It’s difficult to over emphasize how willfully ignorant the above commenter is. They don’t care about jews or roma. This is an example of real anti semitism, which continues to pervade, and is the reason why Israel and its oligarchs can get away with mislabeling legitimate activity as such. Because everyone knows there are people like this running around who are seeking to ride the wave of empathy for the palestinians (who they also don’t care about) to stir up anti-jew attitudes.

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        All clearly as frequently used as “anti-semitism” /s

        And yeah, I don’t care about race, any race, I care about people, which includes that they’re not unjustly treated for things that were not their choice, such as the race they were born into.

        It’s Racists who feel the need to care about a race or races, defending things for some races which they do noit defend for others, doing little performances about how others must care about those races too and that those who don’t “are against those races” - for them race comes first, defining a person and dictating how they should be treated.

        For Humanists race is something that should be of as little importance to how somebody is treated as the color of their eyes or how tall they are, and yet they see again and again race weponized by Racists to treat people differently even though those people haven’t actually earned such treatment through their actions: in other words race fro Humanists is something that should be irrelevant yet has been turned by others into a pivot for injustice.

        It’s pretty obvious from your little performance which one you are.