The picture that shames Italy
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Al Smith
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> It was the sort of tragedy that could happen on any beach. But what happened next has stunned Italy. The bodies of the two girls were laid on the sand; their sister and cousin were taken away by the police to identify and contact the parents. Some pious soul donated a couple of towels to preserve the most basic decencies. Then beach life resumed.
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> The indifference was taken as shocking proof that many Italians no longer have human feelings for the Roma, even though the communities have lived side by side for generations.
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I don't see this as such a shocking thing at all. It is a large
beach. I doubt anyone is sitting next to the bodies. That picture
compresses the distance between the corpses and the bathers. It
would be unreasonable to close the beach -- and I'm sure that
eventually someone took the corpses away. People drown at beaches
all the time. It's unfortunate, but it has nothing at all to do with
the other users of the beaches.
As for the drowned being Gypsies, that is irrelevant. They might
just as easily have been Rastafarians. What difference would it have
made?
Sure, Italians hate the Gypsies. They have good reason to hate the
Gypsies, whose main occupations are thievery and thuggery. But that
has nothing to do with two Gypsies (who apparently were not
prevented from using the beach) drowning.
-Al-