8 year old in NH survives being hung from tire swing in apparent hate crime

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(09-13-2017, 10:18 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Blacks are rare to the point that people are surprised to see them and if they do they are just avoided. Bringing one home to marry is a shame to the family.  

Gays are not in the open most are married to a woman and have a family to not raise suspicion.   If they are outed they will most likely have people from the neighborhood asking them to leave for the sake of the families in the neighborhood.  

No one gets beat up.    

There will be an upcoming issue with the Chinese in Belarus.   That might get violent based off how Lukashenko did the whole deal.

(09-13-2017, 10:35 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Families do not want that stuff around their children.   What happens in someone's bedroom should stay there.....

(09-14-2017, 01:44 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: We were discussing Blacks being a 1% minorities in this town and pat claimed that racism was because there were so few blacks in this community.  I was disagreeing and using Belarus as an example since it was the first place I could think of with a low black population plus Soviet states do not have best history on minorities so I thought it would be a worthwhile and fair comparison.  

You mentioned Romani and Jews.   Yes their history is not very well in former Soviet areas.    

In defense of the treatment of gypsies.  There is a scourge of gypsies that go around former Soviet Union and con children out of their families gold.   It's well known and probably why violence follows them.    I realize not all are stealing gold but enough are to cause issues across a wide area.    local police are corrupt and often not trusted.  

All this being said I don't condone violence towards gypsies.

(09-14-2017, 02:46 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: In my example there was no discrimination.   That was my point.

In your examples, the following people are being discriminated against in Belarus: blacks, gays, Jews, Romani/gypsies, and soon the Chinese.