That seems like how it is in the US too.

"Racism is only a thing very bad evil people do. I'm not an very bad evil person. Thus I cannot have done racism."

When I was in grad school I lived in an international student dorm where I was basically the only American. One day we had a party, and after a few drinks the Europeans started into this game they’ve all seemingly done a hundred times before where they started saying the most vile shit I’ve ever heard to each other while laughing. Like “OK, sure everyone in my country is drunk all the time, but it’s better than you guys letting in all those thieving gypsys!”

So they did a full round of about 20 people throwing the worst racism/nationalism I’ve ever come across in real life at each other, including absolutely dunking on the only black guy as if he was a representative for all africans, then like a hive mind they all turned to me and someone went “At least none of us are as racist as these Americans!” followed by uproarious laughter. I ask myself internally all the time if my behavior is problematic, but it seemed like these people never learned that skill but instead were taught “USA=racist, everyone else is good” and never questioned it or themselves.

For years this led me to privately think “Man, Europeans are way worse.” But then, you know, we elected Trump twice and the Klan came back dressed in camo.

Denmark forcibly sterilizing Greenland Inuit women, the general treatment of the Romani people, Brexiters crying about immigrants, oh hey look things are getting worse for black people, Zwarte Piet, golliwog dolls, the racism adjacent to Islamophobia...

It generally looks different in the US because a) the population is way less homogenous so different ethnic groups can both form distinct cultures and are more likely to interact with other groups and b) the core issues are baked into every facet of our history and fixing all of the lingering effects means actually facing and discussing all of it. This is complicated by a sizeable portion that are perfectly happy with a segregated society. We fought a war with ourselves about it and didn't actually fix anything in that process. (I suspect that a great many Europeans are also happy with a segregated society, and as long as that segregation is along country or even village borders they can pretend it's not the same kind of bigotry)

Call me when EU prisons are used as slave camps (populated overwhelmingly by black people)

Is prison labour only slavery if the prisoners are black people? Because prison labour is common in Europe.

I remember hearing that conspiracy theory, snopes has a detailed page about its origins: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/israelis-absent-911/

TLDR: originally it was not nazi, but Syrian propaganda. Obviously nazis pick up whatever fits their world view.

Europeans don't actually talk about Romani all that much. The whole situation is still a big problem, the discrimination is real, a lot of people have old uninspected misconceptions, there are people who have active hate in their heart, but it's not a topic on anyone's mind. It's a small minority (~2% of population) that, ironically, lives in pretty compact communities predominately in south-eastern parts of Europe, and it's just not a thought that crosses most people's minds.
The actual racism that exists in Europe is mainly comes against refugees from muslim countries, not Romani, you need to update your mental hatemap.

Ignorance born of environment is understandable.

Ignorance born of anti-intellectualism is malicious.

For a good time, ask central Europeans about the romani

What does "malicious" mean here? Structural racism often doesn't have ill intent from any individual people, and nevertheless still affects people's daily lives.

There's a kind of stubborn ignorance which is very malicious. It's how we got trump, in part.

You're very blatantly underestimating the extent of European racism just because it shows itself less towards black people specifically.

Europeans will also be like British people treating Polish people like shit, or various flavours of white people from adjacent communities deciding the other white person needs to be struck from the earth.

Europeans can absolutely be violently racist. I mean, who do you think sold all those slaves to the US?

... So those lessons on the many centuries of European colonization** included zero self reflection on the racism involved?

European history "doesn't really have much racism in it"? Huh? You sure we're talking about the same european history here? Maybe in some parts of Europe this isn't taught, but I definitely learned in school about colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, the Nazi's racism against Slavs and Romas etc...