[Tao3300]

That's what we call racism. Even if the anecdotes are from your own experience, you're still drawing broad ethnic conclusions from them.

What do we call anonymous stories, lacking in detail, being circulated in a public forum? Yes, those are rumors.

[pezezin]

Have you ever lived in Europe and had to deal with gypsies? If not, please don't talk about what you don't know.

[Tao3300]

If I did, then what?

In either case, "it's not racism, you don't know what they're like" completes my bingo card.

[agumonkey]

This is seriously frightening almost to the point of gaslighting I'd say.

As a sidenote: you're saying I lied to spread rumors ?

[Tao3300]

I'm saying it was an anonymous story, lacking verifiable detail, spread in a public forum. Whether it's your personal truth or not is irrelevant to the fact that it's a rumor by definition.

Are you scared of definitions? Do you feel like dictionaries are written to gaslight you? Don't blow it out of proportion.