[quote=“dancarter”]Mmmmm not quite sure I want it on record here that I admittted to being a racist. I admitted I dont like travellers and it was QED that I was a racist.
I dont like people with bad manners, I consider setting up home on the side of the road and leaving your rubbish blow all over the countryside bad manners. I consider letting your kids run amok on the side of the road bad manners.
I consider coming into farmers yards and intimidating farmers and scoping what can be robbed bad manners.
None of the above are exclusive to travellers of course but I have experrienced all of thr above from travellers. Along with fighting in pubs etc
What about the fookin riots in Mullingar a few weeks ago?
its anti social behaviour dressed up as there culture. Should taking heroin be permitted in some areas where there is a heroin culture? Should it fuck.
Rock has a fair point about integrating them somewhere, but they dont seem to want to be integrated. I went to school with several and they kept to themselves, never played sport and just caused bother in the school when they bothered there holes coming in.
When I worked in a bar years ago in Cork city they were the bane of our lives. They used to come in duroing the day and we served them at the start, one evening a fella smacked his wife across the head with an ashtray, we had some job getting the fookers out of the bar that night. on several other occassions when served within 20 mins there could be 30 of them waiting for a drink. Allowing them to drink in your bar was suicide for the business…and there is a reason they dont get served, because they are troublesome fooks. Drink doesnt suit em…
What is yer opinion on the Nally incident in Mayo? apparently the man was living on his nerves for months if not years before he shot your man. I know a few lads from Mayo and they said the whole county was behind Nally…not for nothing…maybe Irish people are all recist in this manner or maybe to fook they are right and the real minority are those that want the majority to adapt and learn to live with traveller culture
Ask yerselves this lads, if ye had an investment property would you rent it out to a family of travellers?[/quote]
Nally is a can of worms on here Dan. Unbelievable that he had his conviction quashed to be honest, irrespective what the county thinks. We have a law that’s supposed to be above reactionary public opinion, unfortunately it wasn’t applied correctly in that case.
http://thefreekick.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=202&highlight=nally
Anyway a couple of points on your comments above:
- Travellers are an ethnic identity in Ireland. Judging them all by the actions of some of them and admitting you don’t like travellers is racist. There’s no two ways about it unfortunately.
You can throw out all the anecdotal evidence that you want but essentially once you decide to make the judgement that you don’t like travellers because of who they are then you’re racist.
- Surely if there were 30 travellers lining up for a pint then that would be good for business, no? http://www.thefreekick.com/board/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif