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The following nation https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=177035 make use of the word "Gypsy" in their nation name, a racial slur target against the Romani people. 
The Romani people is an ethnic groups that saw half of it's european population exterminated doing the Holocaust. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide

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I don't think that "gypsy" is necessarily a "slur."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

" Usage of "gypsy" and similarly derived words differs between groups as some Roma groups use this word as a self-identifier[citation needed] while others consider this word a racial slur."

 

Basically, while some may see it as a pejorative, it is not clear that it only has that interpretation, and therefore I don't see a reason to moderate against it, at least without more context indicating a pejorative connotation.

 

Regardless, in this instance, the name was randomly generated by a "pony name generator" after the user's previous name was deemed inappropriate for genocidal connotations.

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