#gypsy tw

[themightytej]

So in talking about supernatural beings that are in Tall Tales (for the purposes of the RP on the server), he was like "and gypsies" and I was like "come again" and he said it again and I was like "that's...that's not a supernatural creature" and he was super confused and I was like "that's just a derogatory word for the Roma," and he goes "wait they're the same thing?" so I reminded him that they're a perfectly normal ethnic group of people and he was telling me that his only exposure to the word 'gypsy' had been in games where they were some kind of magical extradimension beings which like, I guess that's cool that he didn't put Roma and gypsy together based in experience but also what in the world is happening in the games industry right now?

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

It really sucks that one of my favorite nail polish colors has a slur in it

[will-work-for-progress]

*post about why g+psy is a slur and it shouldn't be used, as well as how Rroma people are persecuted across the world*

White dude literally says: "I'll stop dressing like a gypsy when the Roma stop dresing like cishet euro-American guys. A business suit is NOT "exotic"."

[not-your-cute-little-asian-girl]

I'm Indian but I s2g I was an awful child when it and to appropriation like ugh I wore a Roma "gypsy" Halloween costume and a "Chinese" Halloween costume and every time I think back I cringe so hard ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

well it's good that you recognize this now but you need to censor slurs such as g*psy in the future.

-janna

[indigenous-rising]

Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly but I see people call some houses like a g*ypsy house (like the really small mobile home one) is it offensive to say that?

Yes, it is.  Slurs can become so common in day-to-day language but that doesn’t make them any less harmful. 

[indigenous-rising]

Okay so I've trying to search around why g*psy is a slur but every site I come across says that the word g*psy itself isn't a slur but they way some people use it makes it a slur. Can you or a follower of yours clarify this?

"Gypsy" is an ethnic slur used to dehumanize Romani (and/or Roma) people. Romani people have large populations in Brazil, Spain, India, and reside all over the world, and their groups can be mixed race, biracial, and mixed-ethnicity. Because Romani people, as a whole, include many races the term is not a racial slur; however the Romani people have been called "gypsy" in a derogatory and dehumanizing way for centuries and have experienced genocide, assimilation, relocation, and more. I am speaking out of ignorance and have only a brief knowledge about the Romani people so I hope you keep researching, but definitely do not use the slur. 

[francophonebaker]

hahaha, it's 2am & I'm teaching some poor, unsuspecting asshole on okstupid about not using the word 'gypsy' side note I WANT TO PLATONICALLY DO MUSIC WITH ANYONE, PLEASE

[queenbeesy]

told my hairdresser not to say g-psy because it's a slur (he was being terrible about it too) he got pissy with me like "I don't care to be corrected by someone considerably younger than me" go fuck yourself if you're being an asshole and general bad person I'm gonna point it out