http://www.errc.org/roma-rights-journal/stealing-children-institutionalising-romani-children-in-italy

I don't know how well known it is, but a lot of European countries have long standing policies of kidnapping Roma children "for their own good" and forcibly adopting them out to European families or putting them in orphanages. It's widespread, its extremely destructive, and it's just one more avenue of cultural and literal genocide in European's five hundred year long campaign of violence and murder against Roma people.

There's an old, vicious lie that Roma people steal European children, but the truth is very much the opposite. European hatred for Roma people knows no bounds, I wouldn't be shocked if this post picks up a couple of "actually a Roma kid stole my uncle's watch in Athens in 1998 and that's why they need to be exterminated!" Posts.

If you're ever bored go on Reddit and post anything, literally anything, about Roma people and time how long it takes for Europeans to show up spouting racist, genocidal violence.

  • mclovin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    :eu-cool: thanks for sharing the article. That sounds like a nightmare that they're going through.

    "Gypsies and Italians…the same laws do not work for both." When questioned if this was the Child Welfare Office's policy, or the official's opinion, he responded, "We just follow orders. These are decisions made by the local government."

    Damn, "just following orders" sounds familiar

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That ones really out of date. There's lots of more recent horrors if you want to go down the rabbit hole of European violence against Roma people.