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"gypsier" a racist term?
Channel 4 has been accused of racism over its posters advertising its latest Big Fat Gypsy Wedding series.
Adverts used to promote the show have been criticised for using the words: 'Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier' in large letters across images of travellers, including one of young gypsy girls.
But the London Travellers' Unit and two members of the London Assembly have likened the word 'gypsier' to other terms deemed racist and abusive and have written to Channel 4 to complain.


Read more: dailymail.co.uk

Do you reckon the producers purposely try to make traveller men look menacing? Do you reckon the program make them look menacing at all?
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Posted Thu 16 Feb 2012

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Yeah but it's how we distinguish ourselves from lesser folk, like the Scottish!
Luk
Meh we are all human at the end of the day

foreigners too as well as all the rest... ;-)
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Posted Fri 17 Feb 2012

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