White Fragility is a hell of a drug

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Of course its racial - those are the negative qualities associated with gypsies: corrupt, thieving, unreliable, insular as a group and treats all others as fair game etc etc, along with unstable, wandering and outside normal society.

When those terms were coined, that was a common understanding of what gypsy meant - it was a quick way to raise connotations of something untrustworthy and outside the norm. it was also an easy way to depict something not fixed or without its own place

Yeah yeah yeah, where does it say Gypsy is a race?
It says it's a lifestyle, an attitude, an honesty and caution alert, but it ain't racist without a race.

Also, If you think gypsies only refers to Romani people, what makes them a race and not just a culture?
Are Swedes a race? Are Jews a race?

[Griff]

Genetic findings appear to confirm that the Romani "came from a single group that left northwestern India" in about 512 CE.[63] Genetic research published in the European Journal of Human Genetics "revealed that over 70% of males belong to a single lineage that appears unique to the Roma"

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

I think we all agree that race as a construct is dumb, but they are unique as a nation-less nationality. Hitler killed the hell out of them...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Bah, if disliking a group for their lifestyle, ethics, and honesty, makes someone a racist, then it don't mean shit anymore.
I guess now I'm a racist for hating cauliflower.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah yeah yeah, where does it say Gypsy is a race? ...

In the UK's Equality Act 2010.

It’s race discrimination if you’re treated unfairly because of one of the following things:

● color
● nationality
● ethnic origin
● national origin.

The courts have said that Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers are protected against race discrimination because they’re ethnic groups under the Equality Act.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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