Polls indicate that there is already more prejudice against Gypsies in Western Europe than against any other ethnic group.

Western Europeans are now going to learn all about Bulgaria and Romania’s gigantic Roma communities. Eventually, the news reports will start being less mealy-mouthed about why criminality is an issue associated disproportionately with immigrants from these countries – much to the distress of Bulgarians and Romanians in general.

Haunted as we are by the Nazi past, we cannot bring ourselves to admit that the prejudice we Gadjos feel towards the Roma is not the only issue. The predatory stance and resistance to integration and schooling of so many of the Fourth-Nailers are also relevant.

All the EU material on the subject is framed in terms of anti-discrimination. When our policeman start becoming individually reluctant to enforce the law for fear that their children will be specifically targeted in retaliation if they do so, we’ll begin to understand that the issue is more complex and cannot be reduced to blaming those nasty illiberal East Europeans for their unenlightened attitudes.