Yep...

I live in a country with two large-ish gypsy areas, and we have a lot of people who are very loud about their rights and discrimination against them...

...somehow none of those people actually live anywhere near them.

There really is discrimination against them, but on the other hand, the system (police, courts, politics) allows them to do all the shitty stuff they're stereotyped by.

(From the us) I went to school with a Hungarian who couldn't understand why we were confused about his jokes - they were based around body building so that his arms could become "gypsy killers". He was such a nice guy, it seemed really discordant. This is an anecdote of the kind of cultural exchange we have.

I knew a similar guy, but he was Spanish and his catchphrase was “Moor killer” which was just really odd to me, given the Reconquista ended a very long time ago, but he says a lot of terms/cultural aspects still exist from then.

That's literally how racism against Afro Americans is often excused towards Euros.

Yes, I was going to add to that comment that Europeans can't understand the treatment of blacks in America either.