Evil Doers!!!

Thinking Is Difficult, That is Why Most People Judge

The Gypsies, the most vilified and segregated ethnic group in Europe.
Who thinks about the effect of such intent through centuries?
No wonder a racist is making waves for votes, riding the xenophobic horse.


Um virtuoso do racismo by Francisco Louçã (in Portuguese)


As you will expect from a left leaned academic, he thinks the crass politicians will lose. Hope he is right, tho.

The Standardisation Of Xenophobia

Gerhard Richter Interview: In Art We Find Beauty and Comfort from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

Political correctness is not a thing, it is a bogus utterance. It is used as a cover up for xenophobia or borderline ignorance.

The Big Farce || Avars, Arabs, And History by Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman's Avars, Arabs, and History:

The historian David Potter had a great letter published in the Financial Times, correcting the really bad history of the Dutch president, who suggested that migrants brought about the fall of Rome. (Bad history is all the rage these days.) Potter:

The “barbarians” who were “responsible” for the “fall” of the western Roman empire in the fifth century AD were not a wave of desperate migrants. They were a collection of disgruntled employees.

Yep — in fact, many of the groups who ended up invading the Roman Empire were originally clients, hired, subsidized, or bribed (hard to tell these apart) to serve the empire at a time when its own military capacity was waning. And this isn’t just a story about the western empire, or about Rome.

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1% Jokes and Plutocrats In Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

I suspect it is the same thing in Portugal, read Krugman’s Faking It (2014 - FEB 13).
The rightWing minions and the populace with illusion of superiority do big mouth the lies, targeting Gypsies and the Chinese community, with what the majority of the Portuguese small business owners have been doing for decades.



1% Jokes and Plutocrats In Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society by Kevin Roose NYMag