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> anything remotely referencing Travellers (UK), Roma, Gypsies

I imagine (living in a country that's unbelievably racist to Roma people) that "anything" is usually pretty racist though, so it's not really everything referencing these groups of people.

> I am deeply concerned about the widespread censoring of these discussions.

But if the alternative is quite often these discussions spiralling into calls for genocide then "censoring" surely is the lesser evil.

> the police both didn't have the power to resolve it and were not willing to wield the power they did have.

That's a very familiar experience I think in most countries, but as you say if we can't discuss it, and we can't because mass murderers in waiting immediately hijack any attempt to do that, then we can't work on a solution.