16
Jan
2023
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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President. Attacks by extremists are escalating in Slovakia. This time the target of their attacks are Roma in the town of Michalovce, who have been terrorized for several weeks by fascist politicians who have used the brutal crime of an individual, a person living in the Roma community, to terrorize all Roma in Slovakia by applying collective guilt. It has gone so far that fascists want to establish militias as a tool for physical intervention against poor people living in Roma communities. It is absurd what all our democratic systems can overlook. We overlook racist attacks on social media, we overlook fascist threats, humiliation, the application of collective guilt. Many of these politicians who threaten the Roma in Slovakia today admire Hitler with impunity, deny the Holocaust, and we are still silent. How long do you want to be quiet, my friends? How long will fascist politicians be free, or even in democratic institutions like this Parliament?