Zazzle responds about anti-Gypsyist T-shirt

[uhnope]

Source: ROMEA

News server Romea.cz reported yesterday that the German-language pages of the Zazzle online retailer were offering a T-shirt reading "GYPSY HUNTER BADGE - WE KILL THE GYPSIES". The item was no longer for sale approximately two hours later.

Customers wrote indignant protest letters to the company and shared them through Facebook. News server Romea.cz also contacted the firm with questions.

Communications Director Diana Adair responded to Romea.cz yesterday evening as follows: "Thank you for contacting us regarding the matter of this motif. We are working to remove it. Zazzle provides an open market where users can create a broad range of products themselves. Whenever we ascertain that a product violates our norms because of hateful or violent content, we immediately remove it."


Read more: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/zazzle-responds-about-anti-gypsyist-t-shirt

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[Scootaloo]

1. Jesus fucking christ n/t

[snooper2]

2. he didn't have anything to do with it apparently he died a long time ago

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Antiziganism

This is not something for which many Americans are even aware, except they know it isn't "PC" to say "he gyped me" anymore; though some don't even know why that is bigoted.

Antiziganism (also known as anti-Romanyism, anti-Romani sentiment or anti-Gypsyism) is the hostility, prejudice, discrimination or racism directed at the Romani people as an ethnic group, or people perceived as being of Romani heritage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiziganism

[saturnsring]

4. just now learned what "gyped me" - i haD no idea that it refered to gypsies

[Nitram]

5. I remember how surprised I was to learn the origin of the phrase.

Then I learned about Dutch wife, to go Dutch, Indian giver, Scotch whistle, etc. But in Germany it brings memories of of how the Nazis treated the Romano.