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A comment on The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by 3np on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:52PM (#25107441)
The first thing that stands out to me is the choice of the word "gypsy". While many Roma are perfectly fine with it and even use it themselves, there are also many who find the word offensive and it has historically been used as a racial slur. Why not drop the word alltogether and fall back to the (at least to my understanding) neutral "roma"?
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Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by fierarul on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:53AM (#25108537)
Such a silly choice. If some people really hate a group won't the new self designated word become a racial slur too? What then?
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Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by adrianN on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:30AM (#25108746)
You get what is commonly known as the "euphemism cycle", or the "euphemism treadmill": https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087798
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Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by monocasa on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:12AM (#25109314)
Gypsy was always a slur. It's not a case of a euphemism treadmill.
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Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by smegger001 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:18PM (#25107959)
In all honestly many people in North America would not know who the Roma are but would know what group you are talking about when you say gypsy.
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Re:The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgari... by rixed on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:38AM (#25109128)
Since you sounds honest and not sarcastic, may I take this opportunity to ask you what mechanism do you believe will help improving the actual situation once the word have been successfully changed (assuming for the sake of discussion that the word can be effectively changed) ? I have always been intrigued by the power of words.
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