White girls dancing in fields wearing a long patterned skirt and crop top
It is:
A RACIAL SLUR.
JUST as bad as the “n” slur, the “k” slur, or the “r” slur.
G*psy is a term used to derogatorily describe an ethnicity/people that everybody apparently forgets exists: the Romani.
Stop using this slur on your shirts, jewellery, and in your metaphysical shops.
Stop using a terrible slur against a thriving people for your own profit or benefit.
Stop using a slur against a thriving people to describe yourself as “Adventurous uwu”.
Stop using this word.
You are not a “g*psy”
You are a fucking asshole.
Reblogging because I’ve been ignorant of this in the past as well, and I’d rather others don’t have to learn the hard way like I did.
Relatedly, “g*pped” (used to mean “cheated” or “ripped off”) is derived from the g-slur, and is not okay to say.
(I always spelled it with a “ji” in my head and had no idea they were connected until friends called me out. If you didn’t know that doesn’t make you a bad person, but now you DO know, and you can do better!)
Yup. I made this mistake as well (and I think even in the same way) until someone pointed it out to me, including that its derivation is predicated upon racist stereotypes of Roma as swindlers and cheats. I was angry with myself because by then I’d become well aware of the level of systemic, institutionalized hate Roma face, especially in Europe.
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