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In a stand-up comedy performance released as a Christmas 2021 Netflix special titled His Dark Material, Carr said that a "positive" of the Holocaust was the genocide of thousands of "Gy***s" by Nazi Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carr
As in, refer to their group, not individual? Like some Native Americans do with Indian? That I get, then it's different from e.g. the nword and f-slur in that usage.
Certain groups of "travelers" (I'll use this term as some are roma, some are not) will use gypsy to refer to themselves, and ask others to do so. They use it for their group and individuals within the group.
I think the appropriate way to use it is to treat it the same way we do pronouns - asking what they prefer and using what they prefer. I simply use neutral ones until told, this avoids any accidental misuse referring to the people who consider it a slur incorrectly.
I could not figure out what the censored word was and was like wait is girlies a slur now?
This makes more sense