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WHAT AN INTRODUCTION...

JEEZ | 03.12.2005 19:14

 http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/feature/display/5775/index.php

WHAT KIND OF RACIST INTRODUCTION IS THIS? CHECK  http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/feature/display/5775/index.php OUT!!! THIS IS NOT PART OF THE WAY OF THINKING IN INDYMEDIA.


November 11, two young people had been placing posters that read that on the next day an authorized rally would be held. They were two young people, two Bulgarian students - not "illegal" immigrants; not gypsies; not BBC investigative reporters or Romanian ones, carrying hidden cameras. Two young people, the kind of people who do not steal electric cables, do not spray messages like "die, cops, die" or "turn all gypsies to soap" on the walls or draw swastikas on the synagogue; they do not smoke dope - or sell it. The kind of people who do not sing macedonian songs as loud as they can in the middle of the night, do not sell themselves for money, do not assassinate top bankers - they do not even belong to the fan club of the football team "Levski".

JEEZ

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local humour (irony, satire, etc ) doesn't always travel well

03.12.2005 20:19

did you tnink about mailing the author of the article about this concern of yours?

the main thrust of the article you pulled this paragraph from is far more to do with the inequities of official persecution in Bulgaria and does not seem intentionally racist, nor does the rest of the article provide any support for such a serious accustion to make about anyone posting to such a site.

clearly local humour , irony and commonly used figurations do not always retain semantic integrity when crossing international borders.

cybero