Gypsies waiting in the emergency room

 
I am among those who hold some ministers in this government responsible for fostering racism.

Oh, sure. These ministers also foster more and it seems that some of the Italians fall into this trap.
A little what happens in the emergency room. Often while one is waiting for his turn one or more gypsies are noticed, they too are waiting for their turn. Of course the gypsies are dressed differently from others, sometimes they speak another language or they have a characteristic accent. Sometimes they are even dirty.

They are glowered at the other waiting injured. They, the injured ones, snort for the wait and they start to think that probably if there were no Gypsies the wait would be shorter.

If a certain minister of the interior were present he would surely point out the differences between the gypsies and the others, for a few more votes he could incite people against the gypsies, attributing to them the faults of delays in assistance, poor cleaning of the environments and who knows what else.

He would forget the widespread malfeasance, the robberies, the absenteeism, the cuts to health, the bad maintenance of the structures ... and listening to this minister one would think that all the troubles of the health system would vanish instantly if there were not gypsies.

Easy, isn't it?

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