Looks more like a shark than a snake to me tbh but still, pretty cool.

It's hard to read tone from a Twitter post obviously but it seemed like a joke to me, playing on the stereotype of the southern racist redneck rather than condemning every Trump supporter as such. But what do I know, I don't have a Twitter so I can't go and ask Travis personally.

Aw, c'mon, it's a joke, don't ruin it like that.

There were a ton of arrests after each riot. So no, they didn't "get away with it".

I'd say pardoning war criminals and Wall Street goons is equally bad, just in a different way

Wow, yeah, it's really striking how few people are aware that the Romani were also one of the primary "targets" of the Holocaust and there are so many Romani victims of WWII.

We were so glad we got such a reaction because if we placed first in the last competition, we'd win the main prize (it was like a pack of candy, but also the bragging rights!) but the organizers decided to pull some "everybody is a winner, the poems were all good" bullshit, I guess not to offend the other kids' artistic sensibilities or something. So everybody got the same amount of points for the last competition, which means it basically didn't count and the other team kept their lead and got the prize! I was so mad back then omg. Those cunts didn't even share the candy.

That's really sad. It's always bad for history to be forgotten because people don't want to talk about it.
I don't know anything about the education system of either Austria or Germany but here in Czechia we've never even learned about the Romani people at school, about their culture or history, nothing. So in a system like that it's easy for these harmful stereotypes to persist when the only "education" the kids get about the Romani is from their white trash racist uncle at family gatherings.
That's really interesting that people recognize you. Whereas most people are totally unable to tell my ethnicity. I'm a basic white girl from Czechia with some Slovak ancestry, so my heritage is basically all contained within Central Europe, but I've been told I look Spanish or Turkish (I'm pale as a corpse in winter but tan really well in the summer), Native American (bc I have huge cheekbones lol), Swedish (idk how they got that, I'm not even blonde) so really ethnicity is such a weird concept.

I'd also like to add this is also the case with Middle Eastern women, with 19th century male travel writers depicting harems as something sexy and promiscuous, when that's not what a harem is at all in the original sense. They didn't know what they were talking about of course, since men (apart from male relatives) cannot enter harems, so their imagination ran wild and they completely twisted the perception of these cultures as barbaric and licentious. Some of these Orientalist tropes are even used nowadays by far right political parties to depict refugees as backwards barbarians who have slave women in harems, so this kind of depiction has really done a lot of damage.
Of course it's the artist's freedom to paint or write about anything they want. But maybe they should've considered the implications beforehand.

I agree. I live in Czechia and discrimination of Romani people is still very real here. A lot of old people here always say that Romani people only exploit the social system and have a lot of kids so that they can get money from the state (which is especially ironic coming from the people who retired comfortably at 55 and got money from the state ever since, making retirement impossible for future generations who will have to work until we die bc the state will have no money for pensions).

lol true

Do you not toss your pasta with some olive oil? Or maybe a bit of butter? (I do not actually do the last part, I just wanted to continue the rhyme)