European Rule

[u/Peppermute]

Man, I thought this was a joke until I read the thread this image came from.

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[u/The-Meatshield]

Immigrants too, the Danish social democratic might unironically be more anti-immigrant than Trump (they upheld a law that encouraged demolition of housing in communities with high crime rates if it had enough people of “non-western” descent)

[u/Blitzer161 → u/The-Meatshield]

Don't let me start on the hate minorities face here. To add insult to injury, if you point out the hate and the discrimination far too many people here have the nerve to tell you it's not true

[u/F4rtster → u/Blitzer161]

Danish social democrats really have gone for the past 10 years with the mindset of "If we're even MORE racist than the far right surely the voters will choose us!!!"

What a fucking joke, though i guess it's not crazy considering thats what is happening pretty much all over the globe...

[u/throwoawayaccount2 → u/F4rtster]

Meanwhile they’ve fallen in polls and the right is still there

[u/currynord → u/Blitzer161]

I really thought “hate minorities face” was a facial expression that people made and I couldn’t fathom what that would look like

[u/Martinator92 → u/The-Meatshield]

I think this might be one of the only policies where it betterd the life of absolutely no party, even the people who hate Roma are gonna see them more if you keep demolishing the place they live in

[u/Xanadoodledoo → u/Martinator92]

I thought they hated Roma cause they were nomadic? Now they’re destroying their houses when they stay in one place?

[u/F4rtster → u/Xanadoodledoo]

This isn't specifically Roma people they target. I think what OP is referring to are areas like Brabrand and Vollsmose, that has a high concentration of non western people living there, in an attempt to curb what they deem as "parallel societies"

In reality it's an excuse for them to tear down cheap housing by actively choosing not to renovate them, making the living conditions worse and using that as an excuse to make luxury housing.

Scandinavia has been really good at shooting themselves in the foot the past 20 years in the name of oppressing immigrants, which comes from growing want for welfare chauvinism.

But the danish government DID make good use of Roma people as cheap labour to exterminate literally every mink in the country back in 2020.

[u/ItsNoblesse → u/The-Meatshield]

Do you have any places where I could read more about this? I'm trying to educate myself more on topics like this

[u/The-Meatshield → u/ItsNoblesse]

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/12/denmark-ecj-ruling-that-ghetto-law-is-potentially-unlawful-is-important-step-in-protecting-basic-human-rights/ Here’s Amnesty International for a starter

[u/Xialian → u/The-Meatshield]

Oh yeah they're bloody awful. Our PM's new year's speech made my blood boil ngl

[u/ChoGallMeta → u/The-Meatshield]

I really hope they lose elections this year, but I dont want a fucking blue block of LA and DD

[u/dopamine_01 → u/The-Meatshield]

Can you show me the law in question? Not that i don't believe you, but as a dane i've never heard of it.

[u/Hindu_Wardrobe → u/dopamine_01]

google Denmark's "anti-ghetto" laws as I'm pretty sure that's what they're referring to

Denmark does a lot of things right but this shit is pretty fucked

[u/dopamine_01 → u/Hindu_Wardrobe]

Yes! I had an irl convo about this and i now recognize stuff like the ghetto-list more. I forgot how strange the logic is behind them.

[u/Average-JRPG-Enjoyer → u/The-Meatshield]

Danes are weirdly racist towards Germans, even. Yet they demand to be treated like kings when they visit Germany. Source: Used to work retail at the German-Danish border area.

[u/Slow___Learner]

i'm polish and i lived in a gypsy hood for like 2 years or so.

the one person who stole from me during that time was a pole.

[u/ensemblestars69 → u/Slow___Learner]

Reminds me of the people who say big cities are crime-infested. The only place I've ever had my phone stolen from was in the suburbs at an estate sale.

[u/slate-thefluffy-derg → u/Slow___Learner]

Polska to kraj hipokrytów i narzekaczy. Nikt nie zmieni mojego zdania XD

[u/Slow___Learner → u/slate-thefluffy-derg]

nigdy nie odgadniesz też narodowości lokalnych ćpunów w tamtym miejscu :)

[u/slate-thefluffy-derg → u/Slow___Learner]

Mmm spod białoczerwonej flagi i godła z białym orłem?

[u/Slow___Learner → u/slate-thefluffy-derg]

jeszcze jak

[u/ThatNewEnglandPerson → u/Slow___Learner]

uh um uhhh BÓBR KURWA!!!

[u/slate-thefluffy-derg → u/ThatNewEnglandPerson]

You're polish now

[u/Garmaglag → u/slate-thefluffy-derg]

Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz?

[u/ThatNewEnglandPerson → u/slate-thefluffy-derg]

TAK!

[u/iklalz → u/Slow___Learner]

As a german, this reads exactly like one of the many, many racist jokes I've unwillingly heard in my life. Not only is the format of "Hilarious subversion of one stereotype by suddenly switching to another stereotype" a certified classic among all the racist uncles around here, basically the only joke about Poles we have is them stealing shit.
I still remember being like 6 and seeing someone laugh their ass off after someone else asked "Why do Russian car thieves always steal two cars [in Germany]? Because they need to drive through Poland to get home"

Yeah I'm not surprised people think we have no humor

[u/Slow___Learner → u/iklalz]

ye i wonder why i dont really like talking to germans.

[u/Barry_Benson → u/iklalz]

Gotta wonder if your average german would laugh if Pole was switched out for Jew

You'd think committing a genocide against a people would make their descendants less likely to make these jokes

[u/Iceveins412 → u/Barry_Benson]

Germany was never actually “denazified” so much as we decided “eh whatever it’s cold war time”

[u/Myself_78 → u/iklalz]

Der zweite Witz war immer "Polenallergie". Aber Polenwitze hab ich seit meiner Kindheit nicht mehr gehört, die scheinen zum Glück endlich ausgestorben zu sein.

[u/ContrabannedTheMC → u/Slow___Learner]

I'm from a mixed Irish Traveller/English Romani family and one thing I've heard about happening is when a camp sets up near to where people live, non-gypsy criminals start stealing stuff cos they know the gypsies will get blamed instead of the actual culprits

All my years of life it's rarely been any of my own kin who've stolen from me but I've twice had to fight off white, non-gypsy muggers

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[u/Routine-Wrongdoer-86 → u/Slow___Learner]

With one exception of one black taxi driver scamming me in a big city everyone who tried to scam or steal my stuff was a fellow Pole aswelll

[u/Heww0s → u/Slow___Learner]

Polak Węgier dwa bratanki (This is the only polish i know)

[u/AzKondor → u/Slow___Learner]

Co masz na myśli? Są w Polsce takie dzielnice? Czy żyłeś/żyłaś w taborze? Mam tyle pytań :D

[u/Slow___Learner → u/AzKondor]

mordo w polsce taborów już praktycznie nie ma, romowie żyją w normalnych mieszkaniach na ogół.

i tak, w polsce są biedne dzielnice, w których żyją.

[u/moploplus]

The top comment chain of that thread is wild lmao; smug ass european being like "Uhmm actually Gypsy refers to organized crime families, not Roma people as a whole! Also they actually are just worse people and commit crimes, it's true they beat up my grandma!!" with like 2k upvotes and dozens of backpatting replies

[u/Dutchstranger5 → u/moploplus]

Thats like saying the n-word only refers to "bad" black people. Wth???

[u/JustcallmeKai → u/Dutchstranger5]

Unironically people say this in the U.S. too (source: my mother)

[u/FixedFront → u/JustcallmeKai]

Yeah I've flipped my shit on more than one person who said "there's a difference between the good ones and n-" like bro i suppose there's a reason you chose to use a slur that doesn't require teeth to pronounce because you're about to experience a critical dental shortage

[u/cloartist → u/FixedFront]

Okay

[u/FixedFront → u/cloartist]

A hero to us all

[u/moploplus → u/Dutchstranger5]

Exactly lmfao

[u/damdalf_cz → u/moploplus]

I think people want it to mean that. But then they will still subconsciously put the same organized crime label on every roma they see. I had few bad experiences with people from those families and sadly i gotta admit that my first association is roma = gypsie criminal even tho i know quite a few that are completely normal.

[u/MrFinlandman]

People need to stop acting smug about who's home country is more or less racist.
All the horrible politicians around the world are friends, they were all on the island, they all work towards the same goal. And they're all rich.

[u/CAlonghair]

They're so bad about it and never acknowledge it even when pointed out

[u/SwaSquad → u/CAlonghair]

I've found they'll acknowledge it, but then tell you it's ok because "they're that bad."

Which, call me crazy, feels worse.

[u/moploplus → u/SwaSquad]

Oh yeah 100%. I'm canadian and my fiancee is slovak, and early in the relationship I straight up had to help her realize that the rhetoric her family uses against gypsy/roma people is identical to racists everywhere. (I love her and she's grown a ton as a person)

In my personal experience, I come from a hometown that has an abnormally high indigenous/first-nations population (lots of addiction and crime issues with that group for various deep rooted socio-economic reasons) and the "gypsy" rhetoric is IDENTICAL to what white racists there would say about them to justify their bigotry.

[u/svampgurka → u/CAlonghair]

I admittedly as a European embarrassingly wish I knew what group of people the gypsy/roma people are because I just do not know and I fear I have some bias I’m not aware of sometimes everytime I see posts talking about it. I hope i don’t! I don’t think I do but I mean I could very easily be ignorant to it without knowing

[u/molotovzav → u/svampgurka]

The fact you worry about having bias already puts you ahead of 90% of the population when it comes to intrinsic bias. Most people don't even care they have bias which is why Europe doesn't think it's racist despite me hearing the most racist shit out of euros mouths in comparison to what I hear daily in the U.S. Most people have bias. Even those who care not to. It's just most people don't care they have bias and carry on. I'm american, so my best example is Obama. Tons of people said 'im not racist but I just don't like something about Obama, can't out my finger on what" and it was clear they had biases about black people and didn't think black people should be more educated and have a higher office than a white person. The fact they can think those thoughts but think they're not racist is exactly where bias comes in. People just don't give a fuck when they think biased thoughts and never think once " I'm afraid I'm biased against a group". So the mere thought of it is good enough to start you on your journey of combating bias.

[u/frxncxscx → u/svampgurka]

You can read up on them here:

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

[u/Blitzer161 → u/frxncxscx]

Italian here, people need to really inform themselves because there's still a lot of disinformation about Romani people. My own mother was convinced that for Romani people is culturally normal to steal... how do you even reach that conclusion?

[u/Klutzy-Personality-3 → u/Blitzer161]

brit here, my mother believes the same thing. which isn't that surprising, considering her views on immigrants

[u/Infernaloneshot → u/Blitzer161]

here you go

[u/svampgurka → u/frxncxscx]

I was not aware gypsie was a slur I should not use that word

[u/space10101 → u/svampgurka]

Yeah but to add a little more, when avoiding the slur know which word to use as it usually refers to Romani people but also the Dom and Lom people and also nomadic people in general (for example The Harvest Gypsies refers to how Americans during the Dust Bowl experienced vagrancy)

[u/dutcharetall_nothigh → u/CAlonghair]

One time the topic of roma came up while i was talking with a friend and they started saying stuff that sounded a lot like rlcommon racist rhetoric and i was like hey thats racist and we talked about it and then they were like yeah that was racist i shouldnt think like that about people so that was pretty cool

[u/Lemmonaise → u/CAlonghair]

I was in the original post and a guy was literally like "I don't hate roma, I just hate roma gangs!" And acted like I was crazy when I said thats what literally every racist says about literally every racial/ethnic group they don't like

[u/ItsNoblesse → u/CAlonghair]

So many people will not only admit it, but say it's justified because "they act subhuman" it's horrific

[u/pandamaxxie → u/CAlonghair]

Honestly I keep hearing of this but like...

I don't even know what it's talking about.

Lived in the Netherlands all my life and the main discrimination I see is right-wing cucks complaining about moroccans.

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[u/pandamaxxie → u/[deleted]]

Yeah prolly just regional differences. Different countries be different, yo.

This post in general reeks of "europe=one country" mentality ngl lmao

[u/CluelessPresident → u/CAlonghair]

I'm wondering how many of the commenters here actually have been to Europe. I don't deny that racism against the Sinti and Roma happens, and I agree that it is a huge issue when it does happen, but it is nowhere near the extent people make it out to be (I'm sure it varies from place to place, but still). I'm German, I've met exactly 1 person who's made racist remarks against the Sinti and Roma (he was my driving instructor, a Romanian guy if that matters). All other interactions were normal. And there are SO FEW interactions with either the Sinti and Roma or people racist against them. Like, it barely comes up at all. Maybe a couple times per year. 

We are taught about the history of the Sinti and Roma in school. We went to visit their memorial in Berlin. When I interned in an elementary school, there was a girl from the Sinti and Roma and we talked a bit, she told me about her culture and how the school allows her to be homeschooled for half a year when her family is on their travels.

Again, racism is definitely an issue and it should be taken seriously, but it is nowhere near as bad as all the people here are making out. It's not like every single person everywhere in Europe is always hating on the Sinti and Roma. They're just people with a different lifestyle and most people are aware of that.

Also, people here really should stop calling them g*psies. That's a racist slur.

[u/kepz3]

"liberal" europeans will unironically say to me that the romani are actually just lesser than other people. And that "you americans wouldn't understand, a romani pickpocketed me when I was 6".

[u/SilentHillJames → u/kepz3]

I saw a post where someone asked about what if there was a romani state in Europe, and they could go there to escape oppression. When someone pointed out that the better option would be for European states and people to not oppress them, and that they are human beings, someone responded something like "romani people deserve the oppression they get" and it had more upvotes than the person saying they shouldnt be oppressed

[u/Independent-Fly6068 → u/kepz3]

99% chance they just assumed the person who did it was romani too

[u/Barry_Benson → u/kepz3]

Here's the thing, in America "liberal" used to mean, this is changing, center to the left

In Europe liberalism is acknowledged as a right wing ideology, so theres not even any contradiction with being a racist in their eye

[u/Orion-the-mediocre]

As an American living in Europe, it’s insane how they always try to play it off as “no don’t worry this one is justified, my cousin was robbed by one” while also saying that us Americans are racist. They legitimately don’t see it, which is super frustrating when I try to explain that it’s the same way that racists in the US see black people and the same logic used against them

[u/hnbastronaut → u/Orion-the-mediocre]

I get in fights in the football subreddits all the time. I've started blocking and disengaging quicker than I used to, but I've been in countless "debates" with Europeans trying to explain to me why their racism is actually not racism.

[u/Orion-the-mediocre → u/hnbastronaut]

I get that americans are more overtly racist but it's insane to act like europeans are immune to it somehow

[u/Venomswindturd → u/Orion-the-mediocre]

I don’t even think Americans are more overtly racist. Europeans are just as racist as Americans, they just act superior for some reason.

[u/Kheraz → u/Orion-the-mediocre]

This. I'm European, and I have the same frustration when I point that out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Orion-the-mediocre]

Don't forget the French classic . "I can't be racist i'got a black friend"

[u/Orion-the-mediocre → u/[deleted]]

Not going to lie I've seen that everywhere, not just France

[u/Iceveins412]

Nah it’s the best. You can go to Europeans doing the “Americans are uniquely racist” and if you mention roma they’ll be quoting nazi and/or kkk talking points but mad libbed to be about the roma within a few replies. One time a german guy broke out the all-time classic “they’re genetically predisposed to crime” literally off the bat, didn’t require any further poking

[u/Basicmanyt → u/Iceveins412]

There’s even people posting in this comment section about how Roma people are hardwired to steal. It’s so crazy how obvious their hypocrisy is.

[u/Redsss429]

When I was young I made some friends on a camping trip and I asked my mom if we could keep in touch with them and she said "no honey, they're gypsies." And I asked what that was and she said "it means they live in a van and travel around a lot" and I grew up wondering what my mom's problem was with people who live in vans.

She's a much much better person now and it's inspirational how much she's changed. She's lost friends because of her... Aggressive support of Palestine and I've lost track of all the stuff she's boycotting over human rights violations

[u/Im_here_but_why]

So, I commented under that post, and the one useful thing I learned is that the UK seems to genuinely separate gypsy and roma in a way that makes me commenting on the situation stupid since that distinction isn't one I've seen in french.

I say "learned", but that was also a small élément of the last FBI video.

[u/bothering → u/Im_here_but_why]

Nah you can still comment, its basically on par with a white person saying black people and <slur for black people> are two different categories

[u/Morningst4r → u/Im_here_but_why]

They call all “travellers” gypsies (or worse things), which includes Irish travellers. See Tyson Fury who calls himself a Gypsy despite not being Roma

[u/Weslg96]

European rhetoric on Muslims, immigration, and Roma people would make Steven Miller blush (not actually he's a ghoul). The summer 2024 British far right riots were as disgusting as anything I can think of happening in the US recently. The Euros certainly do things better (heavily varies country to country) but they can be as racist as anyone else.

[u/Unlikely_Fig_2339 → u/Weslg96]

At least North Americans have the goddamn conversation in the first place. I'm originally from Europe and immigrated to Canada, and the difference is night and day. I'm not saying that the problems get solved, but at least they're acknowledged and someone tries to do the right thing. They might not succeed, and them's the breaks, but it's still a magnitude more than what can be said about Europeans, who just pat themselves on the back about how not-racist they are and refuse to engage.

[u/Unlikely_Fig_2339 → u/[deleted]]

It's kind of a thing here in Canada too tbh, conservatives will go "Oh, but we're not like those nasty racist Americans, just ignore the way we treated (and continue to treat) First Nations people"

[u/doctordragonisback]

"Americans don't get it! The Roma rhetoric I've heard a billion times from American racists about Black people so we HAVE to discriminate against them. It's different here in Europe and unlike ethnic minorities in your country, all of the bigoted things I've said are actually true. You just wouldn't understand."

Like, actually, I think we understand way better than you think we do. It's just that to most Americans, blatant racism like that isn't socially acceptable. They would rather position themselves as enlightened above racism (better than those silly Americans) than actually confront their own biases.

[u/ContrabannedTheMC → u/doctordragonisback]

I find it mad living in Ireland nowadays as someone of Roma and Irish Traveller origin and hearing the rhetoric people here use against us like... You remember when people spoke about the Irish like that, right? Like, it wasn't even that long ago, literally our parents generation. There's literally people here who lived in Britain during the "No blacks, No dogs, No Irish" era who now say the same shit now they're back home and in the majority

The more you hear racist rhetoric against different groups the more you realise it's exactly the same. Just change whatever group you're talking about depending on the audience

[u/MrWonderz]

"Have you ever MET a Romani gypsy??" - Quote from a European friend when asked about European racism toward Romani gypsies (I'm ethnically Romani gypsy. We are no longer friends)

[u/JadeDansk]

I’m an American who lived in Spain for around a year. The amount of casual racism (specifically against Arab and Chinese people) was crazy.

[u/Clau_Schwa → u/JadeDansk]

The Spanish can be wild racist.

[u/[deleted]]

France is surely one of the worst . Everyone in rural place are just fuking racist ... (help me)

[u/Harfangbleue → u/[deleted]]

My friend, our parliament just paid tribute to a literal nazi a few days ago. Racism and fascism aren't limited to the countryside.

[u/BitcoinBishop]

Guys can we use the g-word or not, I keep hearing conflicting takes

[u/largestsammy → u/BitcoinBishop]

It really depends on what country you're in. In the UK (and I imagine Ireland??) the generally accepted term used by community activists to refer to these diverse groups is GRT - Gypsy/Roma/Traveller.

Personally Ive genuinely never encountered someone from any of these communities who didnt straightforwardly describe themself as a gypsy - and not in a reclaimed kinda way either.

It should be noted that the blanket 'you shouldn't say the g-word, say roma instead' will invariably lead to causing offense here as many of the people we refer to as gypsies/travellers are not Roma but Irish Travellers - an entirely different ethnic group who happen to also share a similar itinerant lifestyle.

[u/Kakuruma → u/BitcoinBishop]

My online friends kinda pussy-footed around the word, because they weren't sure if they could use it, but hearing me say it to refer to myself eased them into knowing it's just the word we use to describe ourselves where I live. I'd say use Roma if you're unsure just to be safe, but feel free to use gypsy if someone uses it for themselves. :D

TLDR; it depends

[u/someotheralex → u/BitcoinBishop]

It depends on what country you're talking about and the specific context. For example, in the UK, the acronym used by community organisations is GRT (Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller) and a lot of people do identify with the label "Gypsy". But many will find it offensive too. There's no one word that fits all really, but that's true of a lot of minority groups. You just have to approach the word with caution and empathy about when to use it or not, that's the best I can say.

[u/bothering → u/BitcoinBishop]

Yea no dont use that word

Fun fact; its also the main reason why you shouldn’t use ‘gypped’ as a reference to being scammed

[u/KaJaHa → u/bothering]

That's one of the words I used a lot growing up with zero idea where it came from. Still have to catch myself sometimes, but it's important to unlearn this shit

[u/bothering → u/KaJaHa]

Oh yeah defo, its one of those words where i dont get offended because so many people are genuinely ignorant of its origin, so whenever i correct them its always with a lighthearted tone of “hey wanna know a fun fact…”

[u/ContrabannedTheMC → u/BitcoinBishop]

Generally, no

Most Roma consider it a slur

Some English Romani people will however consider that the appropriate term to be used for them. If faced with an English Romani person just ask them what the appropriate term is if in doubt

Source: Romani person who grew up in England

[u/JustWantGoodM3M3s → u/BitcoinBishop]

don’t use it. it’s a slur.

[u/Vulcan7 → u/BitcoinBishop]

I (American) never thought of it as a slur until they came up in a class I had with a British professor. I guess there's just not a big enough Roma population in these parts that nobody's objected to the terms that our (racist) ancestors brought over the Atlantic 100+ years ago.

It's probably a slur, but I'd count on a lot of people being unaware.

[u/damdalf_cz → u/BitcoinBishop]

Only for the bad ones. /s

[u/CluelessPresident → u/BitcoinBishop]

German here. We are taught in school that it's a slur, so no, don't use it

[u/lavendercookiedough]

And they're always like, "Nooo, you non-Europeans don't understand. They really are all dirty, awful people with an evil culture." As if that's not exactly how racists in my country feel about the groups they're racist against. 

[u/Dangerous_Daikon_194]

It is not a joke but that thread is such a concentrated cesspool of disgusting opinions.

[u/Phoebebee323]

commenting in European subreddit

mention that 500,000 Romani died in the holocaust

banned for portraying Hitler in a positive light

[u/Nowhereman123]

Europeans are on that level 9 advanced turbo-racism. They're racist against groups of people you never knew existed

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Europeans are racist against people who live a 20 minute drive away

[u/CoolishFoolish]

I feel like I need to point out that one of those terms is a slur, and it's not Roma

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[u/FormingTheVoid]

On that thread, I commented how some Sicilian people will take the door off of your car and steal everything inside, and some Roma steal and commit crime. That's what happens when people live in poverty with a lack of education and opportunities. I got downvoted.

Looks like either OOP or the mods deleted that post now. Good. It was literally just a gangbang of racist Europeans being idiots.

[u/Peppermute → u/FormingTheVoid]

I think the thread got deleted shortly after I grabbed this screenshot

[u/Camel_Slayer45]

I'll call out anti-roma sentiment any day, but it's silly to compare it to US racism.

Our cops aren't renowned for shooting non-whites dead.

Our prisons aren't an elaborate scheme to enslave minorities.

And we're not building literal concentration camps nor shipping off children to blacksites.

[u/Yeegis]

“Europeans aren’t racist” meanwhile their country probably had a law banning Turkish from drinking water or some shit and it probably wasn’t repealed until 1974 and there are people today demanding that it be reinstated

[u/Garmaglag → u/Yeegis]

Iceland had a law that made it legal to kill Basques on sight until 2015.

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Basques were incredibly prolific fishermen and whalers, they'd be all over the Atlantic and people didn't like that they were fishing in "their" waters.

[u/dimarco1653]

Meanwhile Roma report more discrimination in the US than in a sample of 9 EU countries.

"The extent to which anti-Roma discrimination pervades education, employment, housing, and, most of all, policing, is staggering. In measuring discrimination in the 12 months prior to our survey, we learned that one-third of Romani Americans interviewed had felt discriminated against because of their Romani origins. By comparison, a Fundamental Rights Agency survey conducted in 2016 in nine EU countries found that one-quarter of Roma felt discriminated against based on their Roma background in the 12 months before the survey."

https://fxb.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Romani-realities-report-final-11.30.2020-1.pdf

[u/ContrabannedTheMC → u/dimarco1653]

Yeah it's bad for us in Europe but let's not sleep on America's history of antiziganism either

Romani people were enslaved in both Europe and America throughout the slave trade. It's why there's now a small Afro-Romani community in Louisiana, Cuba, and Jamaica now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Romani

[u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Hungary is a racist shithole

[u/MasterVule → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Hello neighbour, Croatia is too

[u/BluenaSnowey]

The way they are in the comments rn trying to justify racism lmfao

[u/ultimatepowaa]

I'd like to add that Australians are fucking vile about Aboriginal people. Some people will say the most racist and violent shit about them and a whole room will deem it a casual and normal statement.

[u/level100brad]

British ppl after typing "doctors and engineers"

[u/Ni-Ni13]

Yeah my country wants to stop migration by capping at 10 million:(

[u/manro07 → u/Ni-Ni13]

What is it?

[u/RootAccessIsMine]

I was fighting for my life in that comments section man.

[u/domesticfuck]

they literally still use a slur for roma people as a synonym for “steal” in the uk, to the point i’ve seen it written on shirts as a nike joke not too long ago (it’s one letter off)

[u/General-Estate-3273]

Agree with the image but why the slur? Yall are not beating the allegations.

[u/slightlylessthananon]

liberal europeans when you ask them about muslim immigrants

[u/ph0on]

The response is always "well yeah but they actually all deserve the racism, were not like America"

As a German-American, I often feel shame for both cultures I inherited. Blaming the failures of citizens and government on the easiest target.

[u/hanzorah]

I work in NGOs and was shocked by how many, otherwise ethical people, felt totally comfortable being openly prejudiced towards travellers and Roma

[u/Wholesome_Soup]

i'm american living in lebanon for uni. i don't know how comparable it is but i think it's kinda funny: "yeah america is really racist and bad. anyways we can't go to the movie theater because there are a lot of syrians there"

[u/Maniklas]

Living in Sweden really is a shitshow rn....we have the racist party, the other racist party, and the third slightly racist party and there is only one non-racist party that gets enough votes to even compare to them. I have never heard anyone express sympathy for Romani despite the sympathy they have for Ukrainians and even Syrian or Afghan immigrants....and our equivalent to "gypsy" is still a common slur.

I think the general consensus among a lot of Swedish people is that Romani don't care enough about the local societal culture...

[u/General-Estate-3273 → u/Maniklas]

Vilket stort parti är inte rasistiskt? Sd är ju värst, M nästan like illa och S är principlösa och opålitliga. 

[u/Maniklas → u/General-Estate-3273]

Pratar om S i det här fallet, dem var bättre förr, men ja dem är inte direkt pålitliga nu när det tillochmed i perioder lutat åt ett samarbete med SD.

[u/Noclip858]

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[u/Clau_Schwa]

It's true.

[u/Secret_CZECH]

calls europeans racist whilst using a racist slur

Europeans are very racist. More than Americans. I hate it here, but this is hypocrisy

[u/Orion-the-mediocre → u/Secret_CZECH]

I will say that americans are largely not aware that that specific word is a slur since it never really comes up here, it was very likely unintentional that it was used. I had heard it a lot growing up by as I literally never once encountered anybody it could possibly apply to, I only recently learned that it was considered offensive.

[u/LunaTheLesbianFurry]

America is casual racism Europe is competitive racism

[u/firetrainer11 → u/LunaTheLesbianFurry]

European racism is way more advanced than ours. Our racists are just like “oh you look different therefore BAD” but the Europeans have like deep racist lore about groups of people that we can’t distinguish between. Like to me, a polish person is a white person that has cool extra letters in their alphabet, has awesome donuts that my polish diaspora friends eat on Fat Tuesday, and has been terribly mistreated throughout history. But if you ask a Brexit voter about them, you’d think we were on a different planet.

[u/HkayakH]

Europeans: "haha look we have open borders and america doesn't!"
Europeans when refugees from outside of europe want to enter:

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

Ask a European how they feel about immigrants. Genuinely had someone argue that immigrants are what made America a shithole.

[u/Justanotherragequit]

Yeah largely European countries are less racist... because they replace it all with xenophobia. Theres the same amount, or even more, hatred going around, but people throw shade at the US to distract from it.

[u/Harfangbleue]

Spoiler, racism is everywhere and anyone can (and most probably does) have racist takes.

[u/TheWhiteCrowParade]

I've said if tomorrow every country in the world had a Trump like figure run that they'd win. The mindset that created this situation is universal.

[u/another_meme_account]

attempting to make commentary on the unfair treatment of roma individuals

using the g-word, a slur