TV News: Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using derogatory term on The View: 'I'm really, really sorry'
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Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using derogatory term on The View: 'I'm really, really sorry'
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Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using derogatory term on 'The View'
Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg released an apology video after using offensive term for Romani people on a live episode of 'The View.'
Who is she fuckin to keep her j—-
Man, I’m ain’t used that term is a loooooong time 
Man, I’m ain’t used that term is a loooooong time
I actually taught English and would have sworn up until a year ago that Black folk invented that term.
Right. I’ve only heard black folks use it and I honestly don’t even know where I heard it from. If anything, I never made a connection to Gypsies. I thought it was just a regular ass word.
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me and damn yeah love position too
im ashamed
I've dishonored my name. I admit I was looking at them ole saddlebags swinging as she was babbling on.
And I'm torn
Who the hell am I to tell a race of people NOT to take ownership of a word...
Especially when EVERYBODY else in the world is?
Indian giver is f*cked up when you think about. Especially when you realize historically it doesn't even make sense.
White men were the thieves and lied and broke deals with THEM!
and us.
The word "spaz" is offensive as hell when you think about but in our time it WAS offensive but it used more like nerd. And that isn't an excuse.
I don't think it's about this generation being extra super sensitive (and trust they are) but they are also right.
And something I like?
They FORCED these white folk to pronounce their names CORRECTLY
Bro my LIFE would have been different if I had THAT small thing coming up. Me and friends had white people use mispronouncation as a damn weapon against your identity and self esteem.
So I get it.
Yes
Man we use to use that word so much in grade school. I thought it was only a Pittsburgh word like Yinz or Jitney. I remember teachers telling us not to gypp people and us calling people gyppers.
Honestly if I was Whoopi I would've told them that I don't and didn't know you niggas like that.
But
Why Being 'Gypped' Hurts The Roma More Than It Hurts You
By
Janaki Challa
December 30, 20133:49 PM ET
I never thought about the etymology of the verb "gypped" until the end of college, when my friend, lamenting his stolen iPod, said the word and immediately retracted it. "Isn't that offensive?" he wondered. Until that moment, I had never thought about it either. What sparked our unease was the sudden realization that "gypped" was somehow tied to "gypsy."
"Gypsy" is commonly used to describe the Romani people. But the term carries many negative connotations, and its derivative carries even more: when somebody is "gypped," they are, according to Merriam-Webster, "defrauded, swindled, cheated."
The Three Stooges movie Gypped In the Penthouse is one of many pieces of media that uses the pejorative.
Columbia Pictures
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known recorded definition of the term "gypped" dates back to the 1899 Century Dictionary, which says that it is "probably an abbreviation of gypsy, gipsy, as applied to a sly unscrupulous fellow."
It also appears in 1914, in Louis Jackson & C. R. Hellyer's Vocabulary of Criminal Slang. The noun "gyp" was described at the time as "current in polite circles," and "derived from the popular experience with thieving Gypsies." As a verb, the term is defined as "to flim-flam" and to "cheat by means of guile and manual dexterity." Proper usage? "Gyp this boob with a deuce." I'm not exactly sure what gyp this boob with a deuce means, but it sounds like something stuck between ribald and ridiculous.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald used the word in his iconic novel The Great Gatsby: "We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in two days." Simone de Beauvoir used the word in her 1965 book Force of Circumstance: "Turning an incredulous gaze toward that young and credulous girl, I realize with stupor how much I was gypped."
Many people have limited knowledge of the term's origins, and so the word "gypped" isn't quickly going out of fashion. On April 30, 2013, a publisher released a book in a New York Times bestselling series by Carol Higgins Clark titled Gypped: A Regan Reilly Mystery. The book — the 15th installment of the long-running thriller series — had nothing to do with the Roma people, but instead is a murder mystery full of financial scams and intrigue set in sunny California.
After multiple allegations of racist intent with her choice of title, Clark issued a statement that read: "I am truly sorry for any offense caused by using the word 'Gypped' as the title of my book. It was a familiar word since childhood which no one I knew associated with its origin. Since this issue arose, I've asked many people who also had no idea of any negative connotation."
Clark's experience rings true: many people just don't know what the word means, or where it comes from.
"I encounter a lot of people who tell me that they never knew the word 'gypped' had anything to do with gypsies, or that it's offensive — especially when the word is heard not read," says University of Texas at Austin professor Ian Hancock, who was born in Britain to Romani parents. "My response to them is, That's okay. You didn't know but now you do. So stop using it. It may mean nothing to you, but when we hear it, it still hurts."
Hancock tells me the word "gypsy" itself is an "exonym" — a term imposed upon an ethnic group by outsiders. When the Roma people moved westward from India towards the European continent, they were mistaken to beEgyptian because of their features and dark skin. We see the same phenomenon across several languages, not only English. Victor Hugo, in his epic Hunchback of Notre Dame, noted that the Medieval French term for the Roma was egyptiens. In Spanish, the word for gypsy is "gitano," which comes from the word egipcio, meaning Egyptian — in Romanian: tigan, in Bulgarian: tsiganin, in Turkish: cingene — all of which are variations of slang words for "Egyptian" in those languages.
The Roma people originated thousands of years ago not in Egypt, but in Northern India. They were displaced during a series of 11th-century Muslim invasions during the Ghaznavid Empire. Many were taken as prisoners of war back to what is now modern-day Turkey, during the Ottoman plunder of the Byzantine Empire. A majority of already-displaced Romani people later migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe. The Roma language is derived from ancient Sanskrit and still phonetically, grammatically and linguistically resembles tongues with Sanskrit roots like Hindi or Rajasthani. Romani music is still strikingly similar to Indian folk music, and their spiritual practices — despite conversion to local religions over time — still resemble aspects of Hindu cosmology.
The effort to substitute the word "Roma" for the far better-known term "Gypsy" may strike some as futile, but few other groups carry the burden of such heavy stereotypes with so little reprieve.
Earlier this year, Romani faced several high-profile accusations of child kidnapping. In October, Code Switch colleague Gene Demby wrote:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...-gypped-hurts-the-roma-more-than-it-hurts-you
But
Why Being 'Gypped' Hurts The Roma More Than It Hurts You
By
Janaki Challa
December 30, 20133:49 PM ET
I never thought about the etymology of the verb "gypped" until the end of college, when my friend, lamenting his stolen iPod, said the word and immediately retracted it. "Isn't that offensive?" he wondered. Until that moment, I had never thought about it either. What sparked our unease was the sudden realization that "gypped" was somehow tied to "gypsy."
"Gypsy" is commonly used to describe the Romani people. But the term carries many negative connotations, and its derivative carries even more: when somebody is "gypped," they are, according to Merriam-Webster, "defrauded, swindled, cheated."
The Three Stooges movie Gypped In the Penthouse is one of many pieces of media that uses the pejorative.
Columbia Pictures
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known recorded definition of the term "gypped" dates back to the 1899 Century Dictionary, which says that it is "probably an abbreviation of gypsy, gipsy, as applied to a sly unscrupulous fellow."
It also appears in 1914, in Louis Jackson & C. R. Hellyer's Vocabulary of Criminal Slang. The noun "gyp" was described at the time as "current in polite circles," and "derived from the popular experience with thieving Gypsies." As a verb, the term is defined as "to flim-flam" and to "cheat by means of guile and manual dexterity." Proper usage? "Gyp this boob with a deuce." I'm not exactly sure what gyp this boob with a deuce means, but it sounds like something stuck between ribald and ridiculous.
Sponsor Message
F. Scott Fitzgerald used the word in his iconic novel The Great Gatsby: "We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in two days." Simone de Beauvoir used the word in her 1965 book Force of Circumstance: "Turning an incredulous gaze toward that young and credulous girl, I realize with stupor how much I was gypped."
Many people have limited knowledge of the term's origins, and so the word "gypped" isn't quickly going out of fashion. On April 30, 2013, a publisher released a book in a New York Times bestselling series by Carol Higgins Clark titled Gypped: A Regan Reilly Mystery. The book — the 15th installment of the long-running thriller series — had nothing to do with the Roma people, but instead is a murder mystery full of financial scams and intrigue set in sunny California.
After multiple allegations of racist intent with her choice of title, Clark issued a statement that read: "I am truly sorry for any offense caused by using the word 'Gypped' as the title of my book. It was a familiar word since childhood which no one I knew associated with its origin. Since this issue arose, I've asked many people who also had no idea of any negative connotation."
Clark's experience rings true: many people just don't know what the word means, or where it comes from.
"I encounter a lot of people who tell me that they never knew the word 'gypped' had anything to do with gypsies, or that it's offensive — especially when the word is heard not read," says University of Texas at Austin professor Ian Hancock, who was born in Britain to Romani parents. "My response to them is, That's okay. You didn't know but now you do. So stop using it. It may mean nothing to you, but when we hear it, it still hurts."
Hancock tells me the word "gypsy" itself is an "exonym" — a term imposed upon an ethnic group by outsiders. When the Roma people moved westward from India towards the European continent, they were mistaken to beEgyptian because of their features and dark skin. We see the same phenomenon across several languages, not only English. Victor Hugo, in his epic Hunchback of Notre Dame, noted that the Medieval French term for the Roma was egyptiens. In Spanish, the word for gypsy is "gitano," which comes from the word egipcio, meaning Egyptian — in Romanian: tigan, in Bulgarian: tsiganin, in Turkish: cingene — all of which are variations of slang words for "Egyptian" in those languages.
The Roma people originated thousands of years ago not in Egypt, but in Northern India. They were displaced during a series of 11th-century Muslim invasions during the Ghaznavid Empire. Many were taken as prisoners of war back to what is now modern-day Turkey, during the Ottoman plunder of the Byzantine Empire. A majority of already-displaced Romani people later migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe. The Roma language is derived from ancient Sanskrit and still phonetically, grammatically and linguistically resembles tongues with Sanskrit roots like Hindi or Rajasthani. Romani music is still strikingly similar to Indian folk music, and their spiritual practices — despite conversion to local religions over time — still resemble aspects of Hindu cosmology.
The effort to substitute the word "Roma" for the far better-known term "Gypsy" may strike some as futile, but few other groups carry the burden of such heavy stereotypes with so little reprieve.
Earlier this year, Romani faced several high-profile accusations of child kidnapping. In October, Code Switch colleague Gene Demby wrote:
It is this kind of deep-set suspicion and generalized assumption of deception that drives many Roma to reject the term "gypped." It probably doesn't help that the term was originally meant to refer to Egyptians.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...-gypped-hurts-the-roma-more-than-it-hurts-you
For real man lolMuthafuka
Or like nigga rigged, to a lesser extent
Shit you just say without thinking about it but as time has gone on we be like damn that was kinda fucked up
I understand bro
But WE aint make it like this - as always white folk create this mess. They mispronounced our names, throw away our resumes, give us messed up mortgages and inspections, say we sound too black, erase our history etc etc
And for the most part despite all the advancement we made
We continue to let them do it.
This new generation just aint having it
Most times they way too soft
And SOMETIMES?
They right.
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You let white people call you the n word like in the good old days or are you one of those easily offended snow flakes?
You let people call you bitch or hoe in public?
What's more appropriate for you
geez your generation is so sensitive.
Man, I’m ain’t used that term is a loooooong time
Definition of GYPPED
a college employee who performs varied tasks for students; someone who cheats or swindles others; an act or instance of cheating : fraud, swindle… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
Well that is interesting
A lot of you didn’t know and now you do. It’s wild how people get older and develop a deep resentment of new information.
“I grew up calling them colored, now I gotta say African-American? Or is it Black? The world’s going to hell in a handbasket!”
She was right to apologize. It was an innocent mistake and her apology should be accepted and everyone should move on, having learned something if they didn’t know before. It doesn’t have to be that big of a deal!
“I grew up calling them colored, now I gotta say African-American? Or is it Black? The world’s going to hell in a handbasket!”
She was right to apologize. It was an innocent mistake and her apology should be accepted and everyone should move on, having learned something if they didn’t know before. It doesn’t have to be that big of a deal!
Definition of GYPPED
a college employee who performs varied tasks for students; someone who cheats or swindles others; an act or instance of cheating : fraud, swindle… See the full definition
Well that is interesting
Very
Says every redneck saying nigga...
I understand
Trust me I understand especially in this SPECIFIC case
As long as you are aware about the potential consequences of using it going forward.
To me it much. You don't like it I won't it ise it fine. But it better damn work when our time comes
Without any debate either
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