Meritxell Rigol

Meritxell Rigol is a journalist with a special focus on LGBTQ+ rights, gender-based violence and social and solidarity economies. She is also a member of La Directa.

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

What better argument to justify these pockets of poverty than to say that they’re poor because they want to be that way? Because that’s just how they are. That’s just how they want to be. Anti-Roma racism is actually very useful for justifying that capitalism works. I mean, it leaves the system intact. It’s not that the system couldn’t eradicate poverty, it’s not that there isn’t enough work for everyone; it’s just that the poor are poor because they want to be.