And the missing part of the hat trick, with your choice of terminology and use of the small g! Trying to think the very best: You're exposing your total lack of knowledge of Rom politics!
I'm trying to be polite. ‘Problematic’ is the tip of the iceberg of what I and a great many others think!
The use of it's no different than in the Black community with those who think calling themselves the N word is cool, or great to monetarise through rap, drill etc. Others reckon they’re reclaiming it, others they’re debasing themselves and everyone else with it, while others argue to remove Of Mice and Men from exam syllabuses because of it. Contested ground and hugely aggravating to many.
To many Rom internationally, including UK, it is a xenonym – a name given by others. Adopting it is unwise.
'Gypsy' and ‘Gyppo’ are just contractions of Little Egyptian, and refers to those groupings originally sold through specialist slave markets, then part of Little/Lower Egypt, who’s surviving descendants much later presented themselves to the courts of Europe as Princes, and Princesses of Little Egypt, trading those specialist skills. If you knew history you'd know why.
The contraction has ever since been used as a pejorative term to disenfranchise and lump together whole groups of unwanted mobile people, genetically related or not.
‘Gyp’ and ‘Gypped’ are derivations used to say pain, and deceitful dishonest.
What’s not to like about it all, eh?
Rom are trying to stop the re-writing of our history, the claim that we are of one wellspring 1000 years back, (where do you really come from?) the insistence that we must fit Gaudja land and race based systems, division of us by skin tones, that we don't know our own history, never had a written language, criminalization, language destruction, enforced assimilation into Gaudja culture -entering at at the bottom of it, and peculiar to the UK - enforced assimilation with Irish people.
You're using a claim of belonging to Rom culture, specifically to argue against Black people having just two nights of being with their own, to watch a play about what being Black means to them, when Rom the world over have fought for centuries for their own spaces to live and be together. Mental gymnastics!
If you must argue against Black cultural gatherings, I suggest you don't try to bring another race into things when displaying little knowledge of its traditional or modern politics.