That’s just everyone in the more well-off parts of Europe. When seasonal Romanian migrants first started appearing in places like Helsinki, people were melting down over how they were making their nice Nordic city look like a third-world country and how “shitholes” like Romania should have never been let into the Union
Eoin O’Duffy, leader of the fascist-inspired and anti-Semitic Blueshirts in the early 1930s and a co-founder with James Dillon of Fine Gael, had spoken against Travellers, describing them as an ‘unworthy class’ at a Longford County Council meeting (Gmelch 1986: 53).
Weren’t a lot of those places a little too busy doing pogroms in their own nations to bother crossing an ocean for the purpose?
I am sure all the Roma and Jews in those nations felt the warm glow of multicultural acceptance.
Want to watch the best Irish person turn into a raging fascist? Just mention Travelers in a neutral way.
These days even Romanians get them frothing mad.
That’s just everyone in the more well-off parts of Europe. When seasonal Romanian migrants first started appearing in places like Helsinki, people were melting down over how they were making their nice Nordic city look like a third-world country and how “shitholes” like Romania should have never been let into the Union
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