For Jay, we're right...

[rainwalker]

Jay Pinkerton wrote an article about the N-word. About how we're not allowed to use it. And he's right. It's no longer our word. It's not ours anymore in the same way that a gun you use to kill someone becomes not yours anymore. We did evil with it, and our privileges concerning it have been revoked. That being said, it pisses me off to have

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[rainwalker101]

So, as I understand it, this ridiculous tolerance transformed to it's opposite.
On the other hand, I can judge situation only by South Park episodes...

[rainwalker]

Being Russian, you may actually have a more valid opinion on this than any of my typical audience. If the picture in your profile is yours, then you are relatively young (about my age), and probably don't remember much personally about the CCCP, but I'm sure that you know it better than those of us who only got it filtered through american News Broadcasts do. Please, tell me about actual gypsies. Tell me the things they did. Tell me how they were treated in Old Europe. Tell me how they're treated now. I really do want to know

[rainwalker101]

Damn, my terrible english don't allow me to say all I want and, probably, understand you correctly.
Picture in my profile (if you mean "avatar") is not mine. It's Roy Rupuis (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001163). I'm your age, born in 1984. But I know history of my country good enough. And, of course, I know history of suppression of dissent in my country, so much more that I can see alarm signes in this field again in last years.
I'd like to precise - who is men you called "gypsies" in you question? White men in USA? Or "The Romani people - an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world"?
Well, as for tolerance.. Tolerance often adjoin hypocrisy, I think. It can't be helped. As they speak "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".