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.
Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it.
Etterra@discuss.online 11 months ago
I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
So Indians are in this case bad because they are… particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace?
I don’t know anything about Indian people to comment on how they are but in general, yes if you have an ounce of forgiveness for Elon or anyone like him you are a bad person. His kind should have absolutely nowhere to turn to at this point after the damage they’ve done. They’re beyond salvation, anything less than excommunicating them from society is enabling them.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You mean S Asia? India isn’t exactly east…
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not the point.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world
Wolf@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am seeing the slur in Instagram as well.
Wolf@lemmy.today 11 months ago
By came from I mean it originated from there.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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?
Wolf@lemmy.today 11 months 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 11 months ago
Yeah probably this. There’s other examples, like calling Soviet citizens “Ivan” in a derogatory way.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality