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by eduction 1 day ago
Libelous. He never says to shoot Roma. He says to deport foreigners who sleep in parks.
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He does say to shoot the wolves. And the wolves are the “gypsies” in the analogy he is explicitly drawing. The commenter you’re responding to was highlighting the parallelism not literally saying “he said to shoot people”
He says to deport literally an entire ethnic group independent of whether they happen to sleep in parks, which is the entire point being made by the article linked to by this page where we're commenting. The comment you're responding to also restates this, without making any claims about whether he said to shoot people, so your objection doesn't really make any sense in that regard either.
1. Comment says “shoot them” refers to Roma. Totally false and intentionally misleading.

2. Literally the only place the word deport is used in the post is here: “ When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them”

Please quote where he says to deport all Roma/gypsies.

> Comment says “shoot them” refers to Roma. Totally false and intentionally misleading.

The comment is deleted now, so I don't have any way to prove this, but it didn't say that when I read it. Maybe it did earlier and it had been edited by the time I had read it.

> Please quote where he says to deport all Roma/gypsies

You want me to quote the exact sentence you already quoted? There's only one antecedent of the pronoun "them" that makes sense in that sentence, and it's not "public spaces". If you want to pretend that the intentional repeated use of a slur and years of similar opinions are somehow immaterial to trying to understand what that sentence means, you're free to do that, but that's not what libel means.

Do you know the basics of how written language works?

Are you familiar at all with the concept of juxtaposition?

When Tutsis were called "cockroaches" in the lead-up to the Rwandan Genocide, do you think the speakers were literally saying that Tutsis were a type of bug...?

he pairs the concepts
even if that WERE what he said, it would still be an incorrect and outsized response based in racial animus