Gypsy

[Grant Barrett]

A bit from Fairfax County, Virginia, about the use of "gypsy" as pejorative.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49297-2001Aug22.html

"Fairfax County police and prosecutors say they do not intend to be
pejorative by using the term 'gypsy crimes' but are at a loss as to how to
describe an annual rash of thefts in the county committed by an elusive,
transient group thought to be from the Romani culture."

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