The Romani are STILL 3rd class citizens in most of Europe and it's completely socially acceptable, sad to say.

Guys, I am SO HIGH. What should I paint on this cave wall? I keep coming back to "man in top hat riding headless dragon" for some reason???

Wait wait wait guys, but he is upset that it's being described as sexist!

Good rule of thumb for the workplace: If you can imagine Benny Hill doing it, DON'T DO IT.

Nope, not sexist! He pulls male colleagues into his lap all the time!

What the shit on a rope, Ireland?

Lived in Galway for 4 months, and heard more casual N-word usage than the entirety of my life before and after combined. And boy howdy, do they hate Travelers. And the center I worked at was tagged with anti-Muslim grafitti my first week. But sure, they're cool with everyone but the Brits.

Anecdotal evidence: I am a Black American who spent a semester abroad in Ireland and the people were super sweet and welcoming with me when they knew I was an American. Unfortunately, black skin is black skin, and until I start speaking or am with fellow Americans, Irish people were not as nice when they assumed I was…

Very true. I was Germany for a b-school trip and we visited a German copmany and one of the company leaders made a totally racist joke about Turkish people.

That's really interesting; I'm a black American who recently went to Ireland for vacation, a trip which included much of the rural area around Galway, and I experienced nothing but the kindest treatment from the locals. People were friendly as hell (though maybe it was only because I had an American accent - perhaps…

"Oh, and the other ridiculous argument "they don't have the same history of slavery". Um, is the American education system so bad that they forget that the Europeans BEGAN the slave trade since the US didn't even exist."

Oh my god, right? I just have to roll my eyes when I see that.

Yep, it's pretty easy to seem progressive when everyone in your country is the same color. Over the past 2-3 decades, as non-white immigrants have landed in Europe, a lot of ugly, racist political parties and leaders have been able to gain a lot of traction.

Yeah you're probably right, I mean I can't think of any examples that come to mind of the top of my head.

Yes, but you did have the Shoah, colonialism the consequences of which are still playing out across the globe, two world wars, some of the worst dictators in history, the genocide in the former Yugoslavia, and, you exported your fascism to South America when your war criminals helped set up similar regimes there. I…

Germany? Germany. GERMANY. What? GERMANY. G.E.R.M.A.N.Y.

Have you heard of this guy Hitler?

Reaaaaallllllllly? You might want to revisit the highlights of 20th century Germany, you European historian, you.

They have the phrase trademarked, actually. So since he's a major public figure and will profit from the use of the phrase, my guess is they actually do have some grounds to complain.

This is horrible, but having lived in two different European countries (Ireland and Germany) for some years on two different occasions I can't say that it was particularly uncommon to hear racist comments that even the most bigoted people in the US would think twice about uttering publicly. Most European countries…