If it is all just a word, why then bother to discuss within these threads?
At various pints we have had it suggested that gypsys: do not exist, do exist but are too wide spread and diverse to be consider a race, have themselves to blame (by implication they dress badly and are all thieving bastards), are hated and deservidly so, are just the same as Americans in that they are both disliked.
We should also be nice to those who use derogative language because we haven't been through what they have. Ah, I could cry for them.
Racists, bigoted, xenaphobics the lot of them.
Hey, these are only words and you don't know what "I" mean.
Ipso facto we are all free to call each other anything we choose to with immunity of
sanction.
I love you all!