The right-wing populist platform unzensuriert.at (2014) in its latest article defames the Rroma as unwilling to integrate and as a burden for Western European welfare states. In addition, a corruption bias is ascribed to them: “On a ‘EU Roma Summit’ on April 4th in Brussels, a “relief and development program” for the South-East European gypsies is planned to be implemented. Since the EU-extension onto Eastern Europe, those migrate in hordes from Bulgaria and Romania to Central and Western Europe. Municipalities such as Duisburg or Dortmund are close to a socio-political collapse due to immigration of the Rroma and the associated neglect of entire districts. [ … ] Such financial assistance has already in the past “fuelled” the corruption channels and could be diverted into the registers of Roma clan-chiefs and corrupt administrators and politicians connected with them.” Unzensuriert.at operates totally uncritically with a highly distorted, politicized, and value-loaded image of the Rroma. Through that, it propagates racist stereotypes such as the notion of criminal Rroma clan-chiefs and culturally related anti-social behaviour. The fact that such alleged “facts” are the result of centuries-old prejudices, is totally neglected by the platform. The same is true for the right-wing populist website Politically Incorrect (2014), which also propagates against the alleged exploitation of Western Europe through the Rroma.
- Politically Incorrect (2014) EU-Kommissarin will Milliardenfonds für Zigeuner. In: Politically Incorrect online vom 30.3.2014. http://www.pi-news.net/2014/03/eu-kommissarin-will-milliardenfonds-fuer-zigeuner/#more-395504
- Unzensuriert.at (2014) Europäische Union möchte Roma-Integration mit Milliarden fördern. In: Unzensuriert.at online vom 3.4.2014. http://www.unzensuriert.at/content/0015123-Europ-ische-Union-m-chte-Roma-Integration-mit-Milliarden-f-rdern