Current mood:	Mildly Amused
Entry tags:	vandalism

When my people are gone and all that's left is an adjective, will you defend my people?
Granted most of the wank at Daily Kos is patently unfunny these pre-primary days. (Which candidate sucks more, ~~is Hillary a whore~~, is Daily Kos more homophobic or racist, who is the most oppressed of all? *blergh*)

But the following brought the funny and has not even anything to do with politics pre se, so it goes here.

Mike Erwin posts a Diary complaining about being troll-rated/piled on for complaining over an ethnic slur in another Diary.

Doesn't sound funny yet?

Turns out the "ethnic slur" that offended the OP so much is "vandalize".

Commenters fall all over each other with snark and bad puns.

I LoLed.

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	jigofspite 2007-11-10 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	I always thought Gypsy was a slur already. Just the word itself. I think they prefer the term "Romani People". Not that I've EVER heard anyone use that term outside of a history class... and this comment is totally not funny. What I wish I could do is make a joke about the Visigoths, but I don't think I have it in me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vzg 2007-11-10 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	The only person I've ever known personally who had Romani blood called himself "part gypsy"... which, of course, proves nothing, but he was hot, and that somehow makes this comment relevant! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dragonfangirl 2007-11-11 06:14 am UTC (link)
	I do think I recall that I got yelled at once for using the word "gypped," as in "Man, this power cable broke as soon as I got home from the store. What a gyp." Prior to that time I had not even been aware that the word was a reference to Gypsies... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2007-11-11 08:36 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, it took me ages to get that "gypped" was a slur, mostly because a) I hadn't ever used it much anyway and b) I had only heard it said and not seen it written, so I thought it was spelled "jipped" and didn't get the connection that way. (Also as a kid I had this idea that gypsies weren't actually real and were like, the fantasy version of the Roma/Romany and only appeared in books and films, like fantasy pirates.)

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