Would you be so quick to say that if the post was “So, an African-American woman is sharing my office space this week . . .?” Furthermore, there is a difference between someone who is Romanian (a national citizenship and sometimes ethnic identity for immigrants) and someone who is Roma (an ethnic group whose members live in many nations).
Ethnic jokes based on stereotypes aren’t very amusing. I doubt you would find such a remark acceptable if it was made about sharing an office with an African American woman. Or a remark about guarding one’s anus if the person was sharing an office with a gay man, would you?
While true, there is no ethnic stereotype that Romanians steal things. That’s the joke.
There was also another joke that started like it was going to be racist against (Romanian) Roma, but then it turned out the issue was that he was his calculus teacher.
These jokes are all jokes making fun of the stereotypes.
Exactly. It’s like the “Money for Nothing” temporary ban in Canada. When it was pointed out, and explained, that the song was making fun of the minimum wage furniture store employees and not “the little faggot with the earring and the makeup” then the decision was reversed.
Still, I’ve yet to hear the unedited version since, but stations are free to play it again if they wish.