#ethnic discrimination

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how about we ｓｔｏｐ trying to make excuses for why this website is so white and just admit it's because yall foster a community of being shitty to people you vaguely disagree with, condescending, holier-than-thou, moral puritanism, blogging about supporting POC but never actually uplifting POC voices, blogging about supporting POC but only if they're the kind you approve of, blogging about supporting POC but only if they're palatable and nice to you, blogging about supporting POC but treating them as sad innocent victims who can do no wrong and are so noble and brave....etc. in other words.

racist website

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On Xenophobia vs Ethnic Discrimination

I'll be straight. I don't like how the term "xenophobia" is used. Especially when it comes to talking about discrimination against Slavic or Eastern European minorities in Western countries. People have reblogged my posts tagging it as that, and it made me uncomfortable, so I questioned where those feelings come from.

As someone who was born and grew up in Western Europe, but is very recognisably ethnically Polish/Slavic (by my face, my name, my language) I have had to fight the concept that I am "foreign" all my entire life. That I am not a valid, "true" member of the nation I was born in. That I cannot lay claim to the nationality that I have a passport to, on the basis where my family comes from.

"Xenophobia" doesn't help me fight these ideas. The "xeno" part of xenophobia still means "foreign". The term doesn't help me, it actually subtly re-inforces that we are "foreign" and don't belong to Western Europe. Even though we might have a Western European citizenship.

If anything, I feel going for "ethnic minority" or "ethnic discrimination" is more accurate.

The Slavic and Eastern European people who live in the West since years, we are not foreign. We can be Polish/Lithuanian/Romanian and we can be Swiss/German/French at the same time. Those identities are not a contradiction, but they are different facets of us.

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Irish Travellers - Wikipedia

Did you know?

Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59. The startling findings contained in a new book on Traveller mortality suggest that life expectancy in the Traveller community is equivalent to that of settled people in Ireland in the 1940s.

50% of Travellers die before 39 - study

Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59.

Traveller babies three times more likely to die than those in settled population

Infant mortality rate is falling and more Traveller children are going to secondary school – report

Only 13% attend secondary school compared with. 92% of the general population and only 1% go to college.

Traveller children being channelled into unofficial ‘Traveller schools’, Oireachtas told

Less than 1 per cent of community in 3rd level education education, committee told

Suicide rates are 7 times higher for them. 1 in 11 deaths are by suicide.

Government must tackle ‘silent killer’ of suicide in Traveller community

National Traveller Mental Health Network calls for the government to invest in specific services for the Traveller Community as suicide rate

One in four women in prison is from a Traveller background, despite the ethnic group making up just 0.7% of the overall population.

Call for change on disproportionate  numbers of Travellers in prison

Traveller women make up 22% of the adult prison population

The government committed cultural genocide against them and got away with it.

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I will never understand why people get so aggressive when you call out their prejudice, ESPECIALLY when it's a person who is against (or at least claims to be) those kinds of ideas. Like just do better oml. If you really think what you were doing wasn't so bad then there's no need to be so immediately combative anyway because you know those claims aren't actually substantial and you could defend yourself if necessary. If you see it as a personal attack, and don't even CONSIDER the possibility that you could have some backwards ideals, I'm going to assume you're afraid that if you dig deep enough, you'll realize there IS stuff you need to work on.

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

People/beings who act like (certain) marginalized racial/ethnic experience is only ever solely dependent on physical traits and your other experiences don't matter vs. people/beings who act like it is only ever solely dependent on other experiences and your physical traits don't matter: fight

Bonus points if both of them are reductive about what constitutes / can result in a marginalized experience even within their chosen category.

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Taliban open fire on protesters in Badakhshan, injuring 20. 🔫✊ Local residents reject Taliban-appointed leaders, sparking unrest. #Afghanistan #Badakhshan #Taliban #Protests #HumanRights

Public Dissatisfaction in Badakhshan: Taliban Open Fire on Protesters

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Gambia: Survey - Govt Discriminates Against People Based On Ethnic, Economic Status

Many Gambians said the government discriminates against people based on ethnicity and economic status, an Afrobarometer survey reveals.

Many Gambians said the government discriminates against people based on ethnicity and economic status, an Afrobarometer survey reveals. It adds that more than four in 10 Gambians (43%) say the government treats their ethnic group unfairly, including 18% who say this happens "often" or "always." The proportion of citizens who say the government "never" discriminates against their ethnic group has dropped from 71% to 53% since 2018," the survey indicated. Meanwhile, three-quarter (75%) of Gambians say the government sometimes treats people unfairly based on their economic status. The survey reveals that most Gambians express tolerant attitudes toward people of different ethnic, national, and religious backgrounds, but not toward homosexuals.

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IOC hits back at Putin claim of 'ethnic discrimination' against Russia's potential Olympic athletes - Times of India

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee dismissed on Friday claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “ethnic discrimination” against athletes who are excluded from international sport. The IOC has advised sports bodies this year to vet Russian athletes for returning to compete as neutral individuals without a national identity ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics while continuing to…

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