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Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world

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  • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.

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    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am seeing the slur in Instagram as well.

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        By came from I mean it originated from there.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it actually a slur, or just a stereotypical sounding name? Because if its the second isn’t it just like Barry eating his 3rd pie and chips of the afternoon with a pint of wife beater?

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s both a stereotypical sounding name and a slur in the way 4chan uses it. They don’t mean a specific type of Indian person, they mean an Indian person. It’s not used like how some Brits use ‘Barry’ to mean a foolish person or Americans use ‘Karen’ to mean an entitled person.

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      • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah probably this. There’s other examples, like calling Soviet citizens “Ivan” in a derogatory way.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

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• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not the point.

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• julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes Internet racism really confuses me. So Indians are in this case bad because they are… particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace? Just generally not hateful people? I don’t get it.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You mean S Asia? India isn’t exactly east…

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