one day we were hanging out, when somehow the topic of the Roma people came up and he referred to them by the derogatory term that starts with a G. I figured he was just ignorant of it, so I told him that it's really not cool to say that and that he went on a whole rant about how romani were "bums" and that "all they did was steal" and that "you would agree with me if i met one." He gave a few anecdotes about how he saw a romani person in line at a grocery store and said they stank, giving this as justification that they are all "bums." When I kept calling him out on saying the G slur he told me to grow a pair, because "people are gonna say stuff you don't like." I was really confused and shocked as he had shown me nothing of this and I was pretty sad. I feel so angry that this kind of discrimination is so god damned common among americans. I cant wait to get out of this hellhole
Is your new friend European? If so generally safe to assume they're racist against Roma people until proven otherwise.
You can tell a European is starting to trust you if they tell you "Hitler was right about Roma people" in a slightly hushed tone.
Hushed tone? They are very enthusiastic about spouting their bigotry.
Exactly, case in point Jimmy Carr's Holocaust apologia joke (cw: racism, Nazism)
Pretty sure I know which special this is without even looking, and I generally liked seagull man for a few, if often, crude jokes, but that kinda put me off entirely...
The most liberal European when asked about the Romani:
his family is hungarian
haha, there it is. we're such lovely people