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Discrimination worsens in Spain, far-right and fake news largely to blame
Reuters ^ | 01/25/21 | Clara-Laeila Laudette

Posted on 02/01/2021 12:56:02 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

Racial and ethnic discrimination in Spain has worsened in the past few years, especially in housing and education, the Equality Ministry said on Monday, fuelled by far-right politicians and fake news.

In its 2020 report, the ministry said almost one in three Black or ethnic minority respondents said they had experienced discrimination while house-hunting, starting with real estate and housing agencies and extending to landlords. This was double the levels reported in the previous 2013 study.

“The media noise about squatters mean people associate North African, Latino and Sub-Saharan people with over-crowding and squatting,” said study coordinator Anabel Suso. “People don’t want to rent to them, and real estate agencies reflect that.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discrimination; immigration; invasion; jihad; spain
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But of course, all the problems are due to discrimination, the far-right, and fake news.... blah, blah, blah.

What's the old saying? Familiarity breeds contempt.

1 posted on 02/01/2021 12:56:02 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Spain is fortunate that unlike Germany they can import Latin Americans; they already speak the language and aren’t Muslim. Some of them may even be pure Spanish from 300 years ago...


2 posted on 02/01/2021 12:58:02 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Equality ministry....insane.


3 posted on 02/01/2021 1:00:29 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: Pining_4_TX

Spain is being invaded by barbarians. It’s fight back or be conquered.


4 posted on 02/01/2021 1:01:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

We flood your country with Arab and African refugees who turn your country into the sh*tholes they left behind, but if you object to this you’re a far-right bigot.


5 posted on 02/01/2021 1:01:26 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Pining_4_TX
These are African invaders floating in on rafts or storming check points. They are not Spaniards, they are alien invaders.



6 posted on 02/01/2021 1:02:08 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Where da blak wimmin?


7 posted on 02/01/2021 1:03:51 PM PST by setter
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To: Pining_4_TX

The usual fake news from Al Reuters about the non existent “far right” aka Spanish patriots.


8 posted on 02/01/2021 1:08:55 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Pining_4_TX

I had one black renter in 20 years. Never again. They are loud, play nasty rap music at a high level late into the night and do not respect other renters and cause fights over the littlest things

Every landlord I have spoken with has had more than their share of problems with black renters.


9 posted on 02/01/2021 1:09:21 PM PST by setter
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Deys be lookin fo dee wite wimins.

10 posted on 02/01/2021 1:10:07 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Since Franco died, Spain’s leftists have been steadily “progressing”, as all leftists do. Like roaches and termites, they just keep coming back (which is why Franco took great pains to kill so many of them).

Hence my first reaction to this Reuters story is that racism in Spain is probably as serious a problem as it is in the US - a problem for the left to magnify out of proportion to further “progress” to their ultimate commie goal.


11 posted on 02/01/2021 1:18:36 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Soon to be trained grateful combatants, similar to the male warriors ready to storm our border. For years we thought it was about votes, it’s not, it will be an armed insurgency, led by the leftist elites. Should we worry about who is really buying up all the guns and ammo?


12 posted on 02/01/2021 1:19:30 PM PST by Toespi
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To: kearnyirish2

Spaniards think latinos are mongrels.

CC


13 posted on 02/01/2021 1:23:36 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: setter

Not a landlord but I rented a room in a house with two other renters who were black and they were fine but yes YMMV.


14 posted on 02/01/2021 1:31:14 PM PST by xp38
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To: Pining_4_TX

We landlords couldn’t care less about ethnicity as long as the tenant is clean, quiet and consistently pays their rent. I have lots of tenants. Not one is Caucasian and all are great people.

Spain’s problem is their “newcomers” have so often proven themselves to be the opposite. Since it’s not possible to know in advance which camp the “newcomer” falls into, the LL’s turn away all of them.

Virtually none of this is driven by racism or prejudice. LL’s aren’t dumb. We like money. We like good tenants. This response is based on experience and exercise of discretion. It’s called survival. One “bad” tenant can cost the LL everything.

Rational people don’t walk down dark alleys in crappy neighborhoods at 3am.

Rational people don’t eat from a barrel of apples when they know a significant percentage are poisoned, hoping they’ll pull a clean one.

Rational LL’s don’t rely on the “luck-of-the-draw” when selecting tenants. It’s a logical response to counter known risks. We do criminal / credit / employment / eviction registry checks for a reason. A tenant has the burden to prove themselves worthy of inhabiting MY PROPERTY bc of those known risks. LL don’t have crystal balls. Sorry. Buy your own apartment building if you think you can do better. You will either go broke or apply your rational brain. Both cannot coexist.


15 posted on 02/01/2021 1:35:16 PM PST by TonyinLA
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“..almost one in three Black or ethnic minority respondents said they had experienced discrimination while house-hunting...”

If they said it, then it must be true.


16 posted on 02/01/2021 1:39:34 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The oligarch is determined to build the Tower of Babel. “To make a name for themselves”. We already know the remedy that God used to “fix” it. Look it up.


17 posted on 02/01/2021 1:42:04 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Pining_4_TX

“People don’t want to rent to them...”


Why I wonder?


18 posted on 02/01/2021 1:47:08 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Pining_4_TX

AL REUTERS


19 posted on 02/01/2021 2:01:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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[I had one black renter in 20 years. Never again. They are loud, play nasty rap music at a high level late into the night and do not respect other renters and cause fights over the littlest things

Every landlord I have spoken with has had more than their share of problems with black renters.]


What’s your credit rating threshold for tenants?


20 posted on 02/01/2021 2:01:52 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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