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Seeing as @UKLabour is going to be taking unconscious bias training, could @LabourBAME @DawnButlerBrent *please* make sure they cover racism/discrimination towards the GRT community. 1/?
Far too elected members have gotten away with vile statements and actions and are too afraid to do the right thing. Councillors telling me to my face, at a Labour GRT training event they can't support equality for us as they will lose votes. 2/?
Councillors and MPs all over the country, constantly using terms like, 'disease', or 'plague' to refer to GRT groups. Constant use of myths to embed hatred within their areas, and benefit from opposing any form of housing, or sites. 3/?
We have had to see MPs use anti-GRT pledges within their Labour campaigns, and left sick that these go unpunished. MPs claiming to have had their socials 'hacked' after saying "Hitler had the right idea about Gypsies", or did "anyone have any gas cannisters". 4/5
The Labour MUST stop any anti-Gypsy, Roma & Traveller rhetoric and attitudes if it is to achieve the equality it wants. For far too long members have believed it acceptable to racially discriminate and abuse GRT people. IT MUST END NOW.
