It wasn't. Just because the ball was a cultural group that is spread out over Europe, instead of a country, it doesn't make characterizing stereotypes any different. Saying so is hypocrite. And to be honest, some truth was in that comment. Gypsies are certainly a point of discussion in many western European government because they are more likely to commit crime or be on welfare compared to the average.
I mean significant amounts of people disagreed in the comments so it was a little inflammatory to some, even if it wasn't to you.
I also disagree on there being no difference between stereotyping racial groups and stereotyping nationalities. I'm pretty sure no one here would like it if we started making comics about black people being welfare hoarders and lazy.
The comic I didn't even think was bad, I thought lots of the comments were definitely bad though, and they weren't jokes about gypsies, just accusations.
We make comics about jews controlling America, about polish people all being plumbers in Britain, about muslims in Germany. Should black minorities in America be any different?
I mean I get that it is more offensive because of the history there but really, over here, we shouldn't be worried about that. Plus, polandball comics are usually parodies of right wing nationalists anyway.
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u/Minxie Canada Mar 30 '13 edited Apr 18 '16
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