The discussion about how to treat Roma in the Czech Republic

The Czech nation is discussing whether Jiří Čunek, mayor of the town of Vsetín, was guilty of racial discrimination when he had a Roma family that had not paid the rent evicted to a Portakabin on the outskirts of the city. To add to the controversy, Čunek has now been nominated party leader of the Christian Democrats and hopes to be given a ministerial post in the future government. Author Petr Prihoda warns about false moralising: "'Political correctness', in the guise of a moral imperative, has taken hold in the Czech Republic. But will it help our Roma population if we talk about them in a way that is considered politically correct but continue to marginalise them socially.? No, 'political correctness' is just a euphemism for not knowing how to handle a situation."

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