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paganaturewitch:

Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear to you gadjo (non-romani/Roma people)

👏STOP SAYING THE FUCKING WORD GYPSY👏

1. You don’t have a “gypsy soul”, there’s nothing sexy about being forced to be a nomad because of government persecution
2. You’re not a “gypsy witch”, divinitation (crystal balls, tarot cards, palm reading, etc) was used to razzle dazzle the gadjo because governments made it ILLEGAL to employ Romani people
3. 50-65% of the Romani population in Europe was wiped out because of the Holocaust because Hitler hated the “dirty gypsies”. You read that right, 50-65% of the Romani population DEAD because of the Holocaust.
4. No, you don’t have “gypsy style” because your idea of “gypsy style” is romanticized garbage, made up by European travelers when the camera became mobile and they explored Asia (this romanticization and fetishizing was a wide spread issue with each culture and population they encountered, posing the people in positions and outfits THEY DEEMED SEXY, not what the natives found comfortable/attractive). Fashion stores, STOP USING BOTS to auto like “gypsy” tags on Instagram, this is a HUGE problem there

Some Romani/Roma have tried to reclaim the term (similar to queer with the lgbt community), but many Romani still find the term gypsy incredibly hurtful.

Plox. Stop that shit.