Slovakia: TV anchor taken off air, loses job over racist statement

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Source: Romea

Kristína Kormúthová, a sports anchor for the Slovak public broadcaster RTVS who published a racist status update on her Facebook profile, has been taken off the air and then fired. Organizers of the country's International Gypsy Fest have also announced that she will not be moderating their fashion show in Bratislava. Kormúthová published the following racist status update to Facebook: "Some prematurely-born stinking Gypsy steals a four-meter drainpipe from your house, it's so Slovak. Why can't we hunters shoot them like the pests they are?"

The anchor then threatened those who wanted to call her racist that one of these days they would be "bitten by something". While her post was visible only to those who had "friended" her on Facebook, someone soon spread it elsewhere online.

Kormúthová quickly erased the status update and apologized: "I sincerely apologize for that rash statement, which was made in the heat of passion and is not compatible with my personal convictions. ... I appreciate Romani people, my father played in a band with only Romani members. I have many Romani friends. I am sorry."

Last summer the television personality was the main face representing a fashion show held during the International Gypsy Fest in Bratislava. The organizers did not have bad experiences with her then and had agreed she would perform the same role this year before this scandal broke.

Read more: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/slovakia-tv-anchor-taken-off-air-loses-job-over-racist-statement#

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"Some prematurely-born stinking Gypsy steals a four-meter drainpipe from your house, it's so Slovak. Why can't we hunters shoot them like the pests they are?"
These are the folks who would happily go along with a new Holocaust, and there are a lot of them

[KamaAina]

1. Is she blonde?

[951-Riverside]

2. I want to hug the racism out of her.

I feel no anger towards her, I think a lot would be solved if I had an opportunity to take this racist out for a nice dinner, maybe some wine... a little candlelight ...some oils. I think I can change this decrepit racist for the better after a long, deep, hard conversation.

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[KamaAina]

3. So she's not blonde.

There goes her gig at Fox.

[951-Riverside]

4. In all fairness neither are the faux-hounds

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[KamaAina]

5. So you have a thing for gorgeous racists?

Meet Pauline Hanson, the founder of One Nation, Australia's version of the Tea Party.

[951-Riverside]

6. No, just ...no.

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[d_legendary1]

7. For a second there I thought this was a Juan Williams story.

[Thor_MN]

8. I hope "fired" was the correct translation.

Considering words with similar roots, it could have been worse.

[YOHABLO]

9. Poor thing. Did she ever get her drain pipe back? Oh those Romani .. why they're worse than

the Mexicans.