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
Anti-Roma discrimination is extremely virulent in Europe, and generally accepted among even the social liberals
I wouldn’t call it a w but in the united states Roma are unironically white passing, elvis is the biggest example of this. The european brand of racism didn’t translate to the american kind 1:1. american racism is more centered on anti-blackness while european racism is more religious/nationalist. I do think the american version is becoming the more dominant form thanks to amerikkka’s unparalleled cultural dominance but Roma people suffer worse under the european kind, the same could be said for Jewish people.
Elvis was roma?
we had g-slur fortune tellers in carnivals for a while but even within that context nobody here knows shit about stateless european ethnic minorities. if you're really lucky maybe somebody knows enough about the holocaust
Race has basically nothing to do with the discrimination these people face here in the UK. It is culture formed around anyone following traveller lifestyles and all of them face near identical discrimination for it as if they're all one and the same, regardless of ethnicity.