Yanis Varoufakis on Twitter
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Spokesperson, not President. And, yes, because we Greeks, and the Irish, were in 1979 the blacks of Europe... https://t.co/vly7KKhHEm https://t.co/LHzfktkxaG— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) November 13, 2019

For real lmao

Like, seriously, I don't know who's more to blame for this but I'm gonna go with the English because you can't go wrong blaming the English, especially when it comes to confusing perceptions of race.

I'm gonna blame him too because "Greeks were the blacks of Europe" is a weird fucking take lol

  • SnobismFirstWorldism [any]
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    4 years ago

    Jeez, what a dunce. And also such a disingenuous thing, Greeks treat Albanians like shit in that country, and of course anti-Romani sentiment eclipses near all others in Europe.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      At least the Albanian thing is getting better than it was 10 or 20 years ago because Albanians have kind of assimilated, kids today grew up with Albanian kids in schools, and there's many Albanian celebrities. But it's still pretty bad. Like, the US had a black president, I can't imagine Greece having a prime minister (or anything more than a MoP) of Albanian descent any time soon, let alone Romani.