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warpedaeroplane t1_jdewyi9 wrote

Reply to comment by smartest_kobold in Poll on travelling gutter salesmen by monkeyinheaven

While it is, the common replacement of “Romani peoples” doesn’t accurately capture people of the lifestyle from other ethnic groups. Vagrants is arguably a less offensive term, but I digress.

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smartest_kobold t1_jdf6vtr wrote

Maybe grouping all these people under one slur is actually bad.

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warpedaeroplane t1_jdf76us wrote

I don’t disagree at all, but there are people and there are words ascribed to them. Gypsy is an interesting one because, at least for myself and many others, it was usually used in a manner similar to Bedouin or nomad and was more of an indication of lifestyle than a “slur”. I’m an American, so I wasn’t aware of the more heavy racial/societal charge behind it particularly in Europe.

If I’m not mistaken, Irish traveling people do have a specific cultural name and heritage which unfortunately eludes me now. There’s a pretty mid episode of Star Trek TNG which has a …poorly represented version of one such group.

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