Gadje, please don’t name your pets “gypsy”

Please just don’t do this.

We are compared to animals enough. We are dehumanized enough. It is enough.

Your dogs and cats are adorable, and I have nothing against them. They have no say in what you name them. 

I sometimes want to plead with you to refrain from this out of courtesy to your pets. “They’re so innocent! Don’t burden them with a name like that just because you’re ignorant about what it means!”

But then I get angry, because the fact that that is the argument my mind falls to indicates that, on a very real level, I expect you to have more sympathy for your pets than you do for other human beings.

So please, just don’t call  your pets “gypsy”. Not because it would be unfair to your pet, but because it is unfair to many, many people, who have faced intense persecution because we are “gypsies”. Actual, born, human Gypsies.

Do not name your pets “gypsy”.

Thank you.

11 months ago
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    Or, well, anything. Don’t name anything “gypsy”.
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