I is a racist, apparently!

I got a comment to my last post from a Gypsy accusing me of racism!

Surely the most overused accusation in the world today! I'm sure the commenter wants me to repent and seek forgiveness of them, for what, I'm not really sure?

They state:

'The hight of ignorance comes out in this appauling article by Tory Irish. A man who also turned into cheap savage dog, like the uneducated Italian savage dogs in Napels who lost their minds. If only they woke up and realised what they are doing to a divine rich and beautiful culture with Asian roots, deep tradtions, beautiful music, loving families and innocent kids. A culture that has been stereotyped by outsiders for over 200 years. So you, Tory Irish will be on the Romani media watch black list if you don't read the links below learn about Romanies and apologise to the Romani people for your absolutely discriminative racist article. Yvonne Slee (Sinti Romani)'

Now, why they would want to put me on some 'watch list', baffles me, since January less then two thousand people have bothered to visit this blog, the only thing putting me on a watch list can do is attract more people!

I never knew there was a 'Romani media watch list', sounds a bit Stalinist to me.

About having 'turned into cheap savage dog', was that article so out of sync with the rest of this blog? I don't really think so, perhaps Gypsies loved this site until the last article? Hence the word 'turned'?

About the Roma having a rich culture and history, I would never dare disagree, I'm sure they do indeed have a unique rich culture, however it is one, I don't particularly like, and it is one that turns a lot of people off.

I have witnessed gangs of Gypsy women with unconscious children begging in the streets of London, I have seen gangs of similar looking Gypsy women in Rome, Florence, Palermo and Athens. This is fact, not conjecture, I don't like beggars, especially women who drug their children to keep them quiet, especially when they are begging on top of getting welfare payments form my taxes!

I am sure, that not all Gypsies are like this, however when talking or writing it is inevitable that one will generalise, we all do it, however even if it is true that there are some stand up Gypsies, it is also true that there are criminal Gypsies and Gypsies who take advantage.

As for the Neapolitans running the local Gypsies out of town, well, surely Gypsies are by definition, itinerant people, they are not Neapolitans, they are foreign to that town and if the locals want them gone, it is there choice? Hospitality can not be forced from anyone, it must be given freely, if that hospitality is abused, it is completely within the rights of the host, to withdraw that hospitality!

That is what is happening in Italy, perhaps the anger goes too far? Perhaps the allegation of attempted child abduction is false or exaggerated, but it is also true that the Neapolitans patience and tolerance of the Gypsies is gone, surely the only sensible and decent thing to do is to move on?

Whether I am a racist, or hold racist views is completely irrelevant to this issue.

Some links the commenter sent.

Romani Life Society of Australia

Romani Connection Website

Vodka Infuriates Americans!

Apparently this advert has sent some Americans into a righteous fury!

They object to Absolut, a Swedish vodka company, from using a pre-1848 map of Mexico to market their drink. There has been some bizarre comments made by 'right wing' Americans comparing this map, to a map showing Paris as part of Germany!!

Absolut defended themselves, stating that this map represented an idealised time in Mexican history, before half of their territory was taken by those United States.

War and conquest are a part of our being, conquest can be argued to be right and proper (mostly by the winning side) or it can be denounced as evil and immoral (the losing side), but it exists and that is how the American states of California, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona came into being part of those United States of America.

It seems some Americans are oblivious to this, that they did pursue an aggressive war of conquest against their weaker neighbour and that they seized half of what used to be Mexico, at least admit you did that!

The territory may now be yours, but it was once Mexico, and looking at current immigration statistics, it may once again be Mexican!

American puppy killers!

It is odd, is it not, that after possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths in Iraq, after massacres of civilians by United States Marines and soldiers, after torture of dusky looking men in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other undisclosed places around the world. After showering cities, farms and villages with some of the most potent of modern weaponry, after allowing Islamists to terrorise the Christians of the Middle East into flight or hiding, Americans are finally becoming outraged with their Armed Forces, not for any of the above, no, they are outraged that a young American in uniform apparently killed a puppy!

Does anyone else see something profoundly strange, indeed, perverse about the above?

Yes, it was not nice what they did, I thought 'the poor thing' when I watched it, but it is not a man or a child or a woman, it is a dog! A puppy, it is not human!

It seems that Americans have their morals all inverted, they come across as self righteous, born again Christians, yet, their nation has spawned most of the ills of the modern world! From the Gay rights agenda to feminism, from the largest porn industry in the world, to a wreckless disregard for the lives of non - Americans.

And yet, when a puppy is killed, they see nothing odd, nothing strange with venting fury on this soldier who betrayed a nastiness inherent in most Americans, a nastiness that they see nothing wrong with when Arabs or Afghans or 'Gooks' are on the receiving end!

If this is what is upsetting modern Americans, then they are in for a shock, this sort of arrogance and blinded self righteousness will not go unpunished for very much longer.

The video is here,