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Saying they "they steal or avoid work whenever possible" is that demonstrably a (racist) lie? When so many people have the "belief" that Gypsy/Roma steal becau

Saying they "they steal or avoid work whenever possible" is that demonstrably a (racist) lie? When so many people have the "belief" that Gypsy/Roma steal because that's just what they do, it's nice to see in reality this is simply not true. Counterpoint provided by EVN, the Austrian electrical company who provides services to Stolipinovo: "As a result of the project, the average monthly payment rate for (Stolipinovo) electricity customers rose from 3% to 85%. At the same time, network losses from the low voltage power grid were reduced from 40% to 5%." Source: https://www.evn.at/EVN-Group/Verantwortung/CSR-Strategie/Stakeholderdialog/Fallbeispiele/Projekt-Stolipinovo-(1).aspx?lang=en-US https://www.evn.at/EVN-Group/Verantwortung/CSR-Strategie/Sta... BTW, the best examples of Roma include Presidents of large populous countries.

SirLotsaLocks 6y ago
also I feel that its worth noting that "avoiding work whenever possible" isn't something you can ascribe to just one group of people. Most people don't love working, which makes it easy to pin it on a specific type of people but you can see it in really anyone. And it can be caused by a lot of external factors, being tired because you don't go home to a place you can feel safe and rest, being consistently shit on because of your culture, not having a great upbringing, being sick, and sometimes some people just cant set their minds to a task the same as others. Things like this can be helped by having a stable job and being treated the same as other people around you.