A worked example in victim blaming

It's nice to know the West doesn't have a monopoly on being arseholes, isn't it ? No, it isn't. But in case you need a reminder, here's a piece in which the author - the so-called "Czech Defender of Rights" - seems to think that logical fallacies are something you should go out of way to cram as many in per sentence as possible.  

Whenever there are violent demonstrations in society, like now in the US or recently in France, the state must use violence against these perpetrators.

For starters, define "violence". Does property damage count as violence ? Why "must" the response always be more violence ?  A violent demonstration is not an open rebellion, and there is a necessary use for violence. See the suffragette movement, for example. You can't keep oppressing people and not expect them to fight back, that's just plain silly.

We see in the US that the police there was reluctant to act against looters and arsonists for fear that if they acted against them, they would have been accused of being racist. That is racism in reverse.

And that is ignoring that black people are treated with extreme violence in comparison with white criminals.

From the very beginning [of the refugee crisis] it was wrong that countries did not distinguish between economic migrants and people who escaped wars.

Yes ! Quite so. Let's stop calling refugees "migrants", right ? I'm sure that's what you're getting at.

If thirty-year-old men who should wage a war against evil in their country instead run away, that is wrong.

Umm, wait, no, that's not what...

 We can see that these are no refugees but simply people who want to have a better life.

Hang on Stan, you're doing it wron-

We cannot accept that an immigrant should come to this country and is given a flat and 20,000 euros.

 Christ on a bike. You're... accusing people who walk halfway across a continent of being lazy freeloaders ? What's wrong with you ? Fuck off Stan.

The Czechs are not racist or xenophobic. 

Yes, they are. Just as the Brits and Americans and French and Japanese and New Zealanders are all racist. Racism is everywhere, it's a matter of degree. To say that no-one in an entire country is xenophobic is completely and utterly barking mad.

They simply have had their experiences. 

Yes, their experiences of being racist to people they don't like.

The so called "excluded areas" in our country are not the result of the fact that their inhabitants are poor. Poor people do not destroy their flats, they do not throw rubbish out of their windows. 

Whut ?

There exist certain categories of people whom the Czechs refuse to live with. I read in the papers that a ministr visited an "excluded locality" and was shocked by what he saw. A minister is shocked by what many people see every day?

Whut ?

Social housing is not a problem of poverty. 

Whut ? Look, Stan, you're just not making any sense.

It is important to help poor people but then there are people who destroy the housing stock. The Roma must accept responsibility for their own behaviour, for their approach to work.

Right, so you're not racist, you just think it's okay to infer that the Roma are house-trashing lazy slobs. Okay then.

The Roma complain that they are refused jobs because they are Roma. The entrepreneurs are saying: "I will not employ you because you are a Roma and I know that a Roma will not come to work on Wednesday."

Did you know, there's a special word for making premature judgements about an individual based on their race ? Hmm, I wonder what it could be...

If Roma representatives guaranteed that this would not be happening, and if they persuaded their own people not to behave like this, the situation would be different. But that is not happening.

You want someone to defend their ethnic group based on the behaviour of individuals, and you're not a racist, eh ?

The majority society is being accused of being racist towards the Roma, but this is not true. The Roma have the same rights and duties as everyone else and their behaviour is not caused by poverty. Poor people do not throw rubbish out of the window and do not destroy their flats.

Let me see if I have this straight... you're saying that society isn't being racist towards the Roma when it behaves in an incredibly racist way towards them ? Righty-hoo then. Your defence appears to be, "it's not racism if it's true".

The office of the defender of rights under my leadership will get rid of activism. We will not be doing nonsensical research, we will not be sending activists anywhere. We will be reacting to people's problems about which they write to us.

Whut ?

I have had much contact with society. As a lawyer, defender of people who rent their flats, I have been to all the excluded localities, I have represented the Roma all over the Czech Republic, I went to various courts and defended Roma renters. No one should say I am against the Roma, that insults me. 

You... literally just called the Roma a bunch of lazy property-wrecking slobs, and you're the one feeling insulted ? That level of self-delusion is truly impressive.

Sigh.

Czech defender of rights: "The Roma don't work and are not a minority" | 13. 9. 2020 | Britské listy

13. 9. 2020 Whenever there are violent demonstrations in society, like now in the US or recently in France, the state must use violence against these perpetrators. If demonstrators start using violence, they must realise that the state will use violence against them.