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If someone tells you “we survived Regan” remind them of the tens of thousands of AIDS patients who didn’t. 

Maybe you were taught about the Romani Holocaust in school but I wasn’t, nor were most people I have spoken with. It was Jews and “others” in my school.   I got in a shitload of trouble, in fact, when I corrected the teacher on the matter.

Everything Big Gadje World said is bang on, not just the bit you picked.  And, out of her entire post, that is the only thing you had to comment on.  Furthermore, you chose to drop this load on this particular day.

Damn damn DAMN!

Here is what I am replying to:

rekette:

Um…did anyone actually read what the Pope said. Because he wasn’t telling them to get a job because he was being racist. He’s literally saying “Don’t be upset (succumb to despair) when you try to get a job or integrate.” NOT “get a fucking job gypsies’. He even wishes them well after that. If anything it’s the media that’s racist, with headlines like that.

This comment is cut from this post and this comment, plus other comments like it, are what I am addressing.   Telling them to “get a job” is pretty much exactly what he says: “seek work and integration”.

There is this post going around with these two gifs   I have seen it more times than I can count.

The gist of most of these comments is "so and so points for a POC/WOC/woman/etc. standing up to a powerful white guy."

There is something lacking in other than a couple of comments that I remember.  No, I am not going through almost 433K notes to check, but I have gone through a lot, having had the thing come so freaking often across my dash and checking with XKit.