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Yes folks, it is now official: racism and prejudice is alive and kicking on this sacred island (Opinion, 16 April). Is it such a wonder? I would have never believed that such a moronic hypocritical piece of writing would ever be printed, let alone in a Sunday newspaper.
According to Mr Saviour Balzan it is un-PC (and rightly so) to refer to people with different skin colour as “scum of the earth”, but is justified in unpalatable name-calling his fellow countrymen, who just so happen to have different political beliefs.
Mr Balzan has really outdone himself this time, even by his standards. This upstanding champion of human rights has apparently taken it upon himself to conduct a very serious (scientific?) survey among Maltese and Gozitan Labourites, and his findings are not only informative but astoundingly unbiased and balanced.
So presumably Mr Balzan will, in a future edition of his paper, tell us by which criteria he specifically defines these Labourities as “unintelligent and uneducated”. Our good man has pompously concluded that he has “discovered more racists at ground level in the Labour Party than anywhere else”. Maybe he got a head count at the said ground level (wherever or whatever that may be).
I believe that Mr Balzan knows well enough that racism is rooted in prejudice and intolerance. Political and social intolerance is prejudice of the worst kind and as a native of this island he really should know better. So get off your high horse Mr Balzan, for there are still those of us who call a spade a spade and any kind of prejudice whether shrouded in witty words written by “bright, educated folk” or expressed by the “unintelligent and uneducated” is still prejudice by any other name!
Giselle Scicluna
Xghajra
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