Are They Being Racist?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/858025/majorca-protest-mass-tourism-palma-without-limits-there-is-no-future

[Mamyalynne]

No just anti-tourist.

[ummmm]

Only you could weave racism into that article!!

[Spicerack]

They're entitled to their view, AOG.
I wouldn't want 'them' here.
I should say, I've never been there myself but one hears the 'tourists' are a bit chavvy.

[dannyk13]

No, just fed up with bad behaviour of tourists,

[anotheoldgit]

/// No just anti-tourist. ///

/// They're entitled to their view, AOG. I wouldn't want 'them'
here. ///

/// No, just fed up with bad behaviour ///,

Oh so we could just say the same regarding immigrants then, without the fear of being classed as racist?

[Mamyalynne]

Have a go, you know you want to.

[ferlew]

Surely they are just expressing the same feeling most people who live in a tourist area think, but don't say.
Guilty of resentment myself when I lived on the IOW, and tourist season was in full swing.

[Zacs-Master]

She (Margarita Ramis) said the islands' dependence on tourism was not a good thing from an economic point of view and was "precarious".

And demonstrating against a major source of income makes it even more precarious.

[ummmm]

There is a difference, AOG, these are tourists not residents!

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

Economic tourists springs to mind.

[-Talbot-]

It looks like it is the sheer number of tourists that has become a problem.
Isn't the simple answer to this ... raise prices to curb the numbers?

[jackthehat]

No, they aren't.
Posing questions like this just shows that you really actually don't quite understand just what Racism is.

[ummmm]

What?

It's people who go on their 1 or 2 week holiday and they cause havoc. Puking in the streets, flashing their bits, getting into fights, passing out etc etc...

They need to get their own house in order as well and ban all the stupid booze trails that encourage people to get steaming drunk.

[andy-hughes]

The issue is the number of tourists, not their ethnicity, so as jack advises, you need to ascertain exactly what the term 'racist' means before scatter gunning it around the site with scenarios like this, flags, and so on.

[Spicerack]

They're different things AOG. Although you're right, we should be able to air our views on immigration without stupid people calling us childish names.
Last week, even Tony Blair admitted mass immigration was a mistake/bad for Britain.

[ummmm]

I think it's a bit of an obsession.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

No perhaps I don't judging by the way that the word is dished out by the left, willy-nilly at every given opportunity.

But on this occasion there are a nation of people who have taken a dislike towards people from other nations, who are causing what they consider a great inconvenience to their way of life, in so much that they want to ban them from their country.

Seems a good interpretation of racism to me.

[trt]

## Only you could weave racism into that article!!##

I agree 100% ummmm.

[Zacs-Master]

But they're of the same race as the people they're asking to be banned. How can that be racist?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// I think it's a bit of an
obsession. ///

Is that your excuse why you constantly sit on the side-lines posting your snide comments?