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Comment by agumonkey | Hacker News Reader

Sorry but I don't even need rumors about gypsies, as a kid some were schooled during months of winter, and they were .. surprisingly creative when it comes to harming you (and I'm being polite here). I know gypsy culture is also bringing beautiful music, and some are hard working people touring the country during the summer, but really you don't need to go far to have evidence of issues still existing to this day.

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That's what we call racism. Even if the anecdotes are from your own experience, you're still drawing broad ethnic conclusions from them.

What do we call anonymous stories, lacking in detail, being circulated in a public forum? Yes, those are rumors.

Have you ever lived in Europe and had to deal with gypsies? If not, please don't talk about what you don't know.

If I did, then what?

In either case, "it's not racism, you don't know what they're like" completes my bingo card.

If you did, then you would know that it is not about race, it is about culture. Gypsy culture is extremely toxic and more akin to gangs than to normal society.

Do you like violent drug gangs? If not, why? Are you racist to them?

This is seriously frightening almost to the point of gaslighting I'd say.

As a sidenote: you're saying I lied to spread rumors ?

I'm saying it was an anonymous story, lacking verifiable detail, spread in a public forum. Whether it's your personal truth or not is irrelevant to the fact that it's a rumor by definition.

Are you scared of definitions? Do you feel like dictionaries are written to gaslight you? Don't blow it out of proportion.

> A piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth.

    - origin: me
    - spread by word of mouth: no

It is gaslighting to negate someone's experience.

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