one day we were hanging out, when somehow the topic of the Roma people came up and he referred to them by the derogatory term that starts with a G. I figured he was just ignorant of it, so I told him that it’s really not cool to say that and that he went on a whole rant about how romani were “bums” and that “all they did was steal” and that “you would agree with me if i met one.” He gave a few anecdotes about how he saw a romani person in line at a grocery store and said they stank, giving this as justification that they are all “bums.” When I kept calling him out on saying the G slur he told me to grow a pair, because “people are gonna say stuff you don’t like.” I was really confused and shocked as he had shown me nothing of this and I was pretty sad. I feel so angry that this kind of discrimination is so god damned common among americans. I cant wait to get out of this hellhole
embarrassed to admit that I was close friends with a guy for many years who would say shit like this since we were teenagers. american who visited his family in europe once or twice as a kid and came back racist against romani people. and frankly had a lot of other bigoted and generally misanthropic views, which I would regularly call out and push back on, which became incredibly exhausting. fuck, I wish I could have found more friends who were cool and chill instead of this racist reddit gamer debatelord dipshit