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[–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's really fun is that "gypsys" can refer to two entirely different groups of people, both hated out of pure bigotry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was originally gonna say Romani but then I remembered this very detail.

    Europe is honestly just as if not more racist than the US

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago*

    We just emigrated to the UK and my daughter is having trouble finding friends... she finally met a kid her age and the kid told her that the N-word isn't offensive in the UK.

    Fucking what? (Yes, I know it is just as offensive here.)

    And we lived in Indiana, the Middle Finger of the South, where the KKK was re-formed in the 1920s.

    So now she has to start all over again finding friends. She was pretty upset and I don't blame her.

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