MAN, there sure are a lot of magic books that peddle anti-Romani prejudice and just straight use That Word in the titles!

@lizardsquid The #14 best seller on Amazon in the "magic and illusion" category is a deck of "fortune telling playing cards" that just HAVE THE WORD loud and proud right on the box.

Like, I get that it's not super-common knowledge in the States that it's a slur, but COME ON.

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@witchfynder_finder at a place I worked at, I tried to tell my boss that it was a slur after he used it, and he was just like "oh, there's a difference between romani and THE WORD", I'm only talking about THE WORD

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