Review of Bloodline

Criminal Minds: Bloodline (2009)
Season 4, Episode 13
2/10
Ridiculously out of touch and damaging to the Romani people
21 March 2020
Obviously this episode was made a long time ago, so times have changed and I don't know how many people are even watching it. But portraying the Romani people as kidnappers and murderers is incredibly damaging, especially since the Romani people have been persecuted for centuries because of the same accusations that this episode has cast upon them. The rhetoric found in this episode is not only harmful to the Romani, who could be at increased risk for discrimination, but also for non-Romani viewers who don't know anything else about the Romani other than what this episode presented as fact. The blatantly racist fear-mongering that this episode propagates is dangerous to us all, and we need to call it out.
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