Gypsy dead on beach don’t put off Italian sunbathers
The highly bigoted and callous attitude of many Italians to their Roma minority was revealed over the weekend after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two drowned Gypsy girls being laid out on the sand nearby just outside Naples, where a Roma encampment was burned to the ground this year after its inhabitants had been evacuated for their own safety. One of the deceased was 14, the other 16.
tags: bigotry, crime, fascism, fingerprinting, Gypsies, hatred, Italy, politics, prejudiceHeinz needz ballz as well as beanz in dealing with homophobic activists
Just when many of us are despairing at our inability to change the ways in which big businesses conduct themselves, along comes the answer: never mind harping on about CO2 emissions, unnecessary packaging, and social responsibility—just grab yourself a modest 202 queer-hating people secretly working together in an unholy alliance, and you’ve got yourself enough people to make a difference, albeit a very negative one.
tags: activism, advertising, complaints, evangelicals, hatred, Heinz, homophobia, intolerance, media, militants
