British politicians demanded Roma migrants abandon their way of life for acceptance.
Evidence
We’ve got to be tough and robust in saying to people you are not in a downtrodden village or woodland, because many of them don’t even live in areas where there are toilets or refuse collection facilities … You are not there any more, you are here – and you’ve got to adhere to our standards, and to our way of behaving, and if you do then you’ll get a welcome and people will support you. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 795
Categorization
- CANDY: This Blunkett quote is startlingly blunt — ‘you are not in a downtrodden village’ — a ready-made provocation for conversation.
- ADDENDUM: Echoes the moral-exclusion infrastructure of the sacrifice article: conditional, withheld worth applied by gatekeepers.