Romani Communities and Transformative Change by Ryder Andrew Taba Marius Nidhi Trehan

Author:Ryder, Andrew, Taba, Marius, Nidhi Trehan [Ryder, Andrew, Taba, Marius, Nidhi Trehan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Social Policy, Social Science
ISBN: 9781447357513
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

‘The people’s sense of justice has been wounded’: undermining the rule of law

Four months after the Debrecen Court of Appeal reached its decision that the state should compensate the Gyöngyöspata Romani families, Orbán suddenly picked up on the issue. In a succession of provocative broadcasts to the nation, he stated that the Court’s decision ‘violated the people’s sense of justice’, stigmatized the local Roma as workshy and their children as violent, unruly and uneducable, and asserted that what went on in Gyöngyöspata was not segregation, but ‘catching up’ (MTI-Hungary Today, 2020).

For their part, the Romani children testified that: they rarely met their non-Romani peers as they were educated in separate classes on a separate floor; they were not allowed to take part in the carnival ball; they were not taken on class trips; and they were denied information technology (IT) and swimming lessons. The reality of segregation was that many children were unable to graduate, and so poor was the quality of education that many barely learned to read or write (Szurovecz, 2020).

In a move favoured by white supremacists worldwide, Orbán (Miniszterelnöki Kabinetiroda, 2020) portrayed the majority ethnic group as the victims: ‘Non-Roma in Gyöngyöspáta began to feel that they had to back down and apologize, despite being the majority. They feel like they are in a hostile environment in their own homeland.’ The Prime Minister further opined:

I am not from Gyöngyöspáta, but if I were to live there, I would be asking how it is that, for some reason, members of an ethnically determined group living in a community with me, in a village, can receive significant sums of money without doing any work, while I work my butt off every day. (Bayer, 2020)

Dismissing ‘the whole thing as a provocation’, fomented by Soros organizations, Orbán (Cseresnyés, 2020) stated that ‘there is a boundary that a Hungarian will never cross, or believes cannot be crossed. That boundary is giving people money for nothing.’

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