From Rohan Davis’ “Europe’s Favorite Scapegoat - The Romani (Gypsy is a slur)

“Eastern Europe had serfdom not slavery therefore Eastern Europe is a victim too, actually”, “Black people were not discriminated against because of their color or race but because of their way of life” okay Romani understander.

OP’s reply goes hard.

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Without going into the history of the term’s use, the origin of “Gypsy” is “Egyptian”. Europeans just can’t help being fucking weird about this shit. “Yeah you look like you’re from [Area thousands of miles from your actual homeland] I should call you that” Like imagine if we started calling Belgians Armenians, or Germans… well I suppose “Huns”.