Thread by @sappholives83

Ok, Erica - we can do this.

You didn’t block me for being racist; I never said a single derogatory word about the Romani or any other race. Personal criticism of you isn’t automatically racist just because you go around pretending to be a racial minority - it wouldn’t be even if you actually were one.

No, you blocked me because I caught you lying about being a “real life Gypsy,” so you yelled racism as a distraction - just like you’re doing now.

All the actual racism, though, was and is coming from you. Attacking people for being white, even if they aren’t, is every bit as racist as attacking people for being black, and making hateful generalizations about white people is just as racist as making hateful generalizations about any other race.

I also found it ironic that you had no problem with calling _me_ white like it was an insult, even after you learned that my grandfather actually did have some Romani heritage. I guess it’s only racism if it’s directed at you.

My grandfather was only 1/4 Romani, of course, but unlike you, he actually looked it. Even I look more Romani than you do, and I look pretty white. You’re so white that you look like you’re descended from a potato, though, and no matter what you may try to claim about your features, the only noticeable difference between you and the next white woman is that gross, scruffy neckbeard and that constantly angry facial expression that makes you look like you haven’t been able to sh!t for a week. You talk a lot about trans joy, but you sure don’t seem to be experiencing it.

You have repeatedly claimed to have been “raised in the Romani culture,” but somehow you don’t seem to know anything about the traditions a Romani woman would have been expected to follow, beyond being “ultrafeminine.”

In fact, your knowledge of Romani culture is obviously extremely shallow, limited to a few basic facts that you repeat over and over again. There’s no depth to it; you know nothing that can’t be learned by a quick scan of a few Wikipedia pages, and everything you do seem to know is about the persecution they endured. What a shock. 🙄

You also claimed to be writing a book about the Romani from an “insider’s perspective,” but you apparently had no idea that doing so would violate cultural taboos that are so strong that they kept Romani survivors of the Holocaust/Porajmos from talking to historians - or anyone else - about their experiences in German hands, and have been a significantly limiting factor for scholars seeking to study Romani culture in general and the Porajmos in particular. (This is a fact that every serious student of WWII and/or the Holocaust is well aware of, but you claimed that the history was “repressed” by outside forces.)

When I called you out on the book claim, you provided this picture as “proof” that you were writing one. The problem with that is that these aren’t titles that would help you with the book you claimed to be writing. Made any progress since May, btw?

Along with a few books by outsiders about “Gypsy” history in Europe, you also have “Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling” (I’m sure that’s a helpful, factual source), an introduction to the Romani language (an odd thing to have, since you’ve claimed to have grown up speaking it), a book about a Belgian boy who ran away from home to “live with the gypsies,” and “Star of Gypsies,” which is a science fiction novel about the Romani in outer space, and their homeworld. That’s not exactly the sort of material that’s going to help you write a book about US Romani culture from an insider’s perspective; it’s more like the stack of books you’d end up with if you checked out everything that came up when you searched your local library’s catalog for the word “gypsy.”

I’m not even sure why you’d need any research material at all, actually, given that you’re supposedly writing a book about your own experiences and the culture in the United States that you say you grew up in, not a general history of the Romani in Europe.

On the other hand, this kind of reading list would give you the information you’ve been using to pass yourself off as Romani to people who don’t know any better.

(You also seem to think, despite all evidence to the contrary, that you’re extremely attractive. Maybe autoandrophilia really does exist after all.)

By this point in the discussion, you’d stooped to claims that your family was “all up on” a book (and you’re a lawyer?), racist remarks about white people, and repeatedly rage-tweeting “cope and seethe.” You also provided a picture of a man whom you claimed was your grandfather that was obviously from a book; you didn’t have any actual pictures of him for some strange reason. 🤔

Not only that; in between your racist comments about white people, you took the time to accuse me of racism, because apparently contradicting your bullshit claims is somehow derogatory towards Romani people as a whole.

When I wouldn’t let you get away with that, you blocked me….and then immediately changed your bio from “half Romani Gypsy” to read “rebellious Romani soul.”

Hmm, I wonder why. 🤨 It’s not exactly the action of someone whose family used the term amongst themselves, which is what you had initially claimed.

You’re a liar, Erica, and you’re very obviously obsessed with being seen as a victim. Every single thing you say about yourself is said with that in mind. It’s why you pretend to be Romani — so that you can go around telling people how much of a victim it makes you. I can’t find a single comment from you about that part of your “heritage” that doesn’t include some reference to how oppressed they are.

You don’t talk about the culture in any real way, but you sure do like to lecture people about how much the Romani - and by extension, you - have suffered. You think that experiencing prejudice or hardship makes you special, and better than other people — that much is blindingly obvious. It doesn’t; it just makes you unlucky.

It’s clearly vital to your sense of self worth to be seen as the nobly suffering victim of a cruel and prejudiced society; so vital that when gay people started to gain real acceptance, you had to transition so that you could retain that special status as the most Victimy Victim Ever to be Victimized. I guess being a lesbian just didn’t make you feel persecuted enough any more. Being “trans” gets you the best of both worlds, though - that aura of victimhood, the praise and adulation of the left, and criticism that you can point to and call oppression.

What you fail to realize is that worth and value don’t come from being treated badly, or from experiencing suffering. Worth, value, and maturity all come from the struggle of overcoming those things, and from how you react to them, not from wallowing in your oppression like a hog in a mud hole, or shoving the tragic history of the culture you’ve appropriated into everyone’s face so they can treat you with what you feel is the appropriate amount of reverence. Misfortune isn’t what builds character; suffering doesn’t ennoble you; and the mistreatment of your so-called ancestors wouldn’t make you better than other people, or deserving of special privileges and attention, even if you were telling the truth.