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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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoLeave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Wolf@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yeah probably this. There’s other examples, like calling Soviet citizens “Ivan” in a derogatory way.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wolf@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am seeing the slur in Instagram as well.
Wolf@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
By came from I mean it originated from there.