illia Posted August 30 Posted August 30 (edited) Every week there are multiple hate hit tweets about offensive stereotypes of Indians smelling bad and people calling them the worst types of slurs Like this tweet has so many likes and look at all the comments agreeing Why is such behavior towards India so normalized nowadays? Edited August 30 by illia 2
KatyPrismSpirit Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Its all over X and its all by design. Elon Musk purposely allows hate speech on his platform. 8 4
Doctor Dick Posted August 30 Posted August 30 It's not. It's equally as offensive and vulgar as all racism.
Barbie. Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Twitter is filled w degenerates just look at the owner that bought it, what's not normalised over there? 1
Princess Aurora Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Well, Let's thank that rat of Musty for normalizing racism and homophobia Hopefully X gets banned worldwide.
Twizzy Posted August 30 Posted August 30 (edited) Well the majority of Indians worship the concept of whiteness and anything associated with it, especially if it's blonde and blue eyed. The majority also loveeeee Israel and America, but simultaneously have a hatred for Americans & Western ideologies. They love America for the education but with that comes their heavy disrespect towards dark skinned people and African Americans. I don't intend to generalize but the question at hand is why is racism against Indians so normalized (aside from the stereotype that they stink), these are the core reasons I've seen regurgitated online. And also personal experiences. I also don't think it's a coincidence a lot of the Indian hate comes from brown skinned people too. To put it plainly, a lot of Indians are also really racist and are notorious for reenforcing stereotypes as well! Edited August 30 by Twizzy 4 1
BornUnbroken Posted August 30 Posted August 30 7 minutes ago, Twizzy said: Well the majority of Indians worship the concept of whiteness and anything associated with it, especially if it's blonde and blue eyed. The majority also loveeeee Israel and America, but simultaneously have a hatred for Americans & Western ideologies. They love America for the education but with that comes their heavy disrespect towards dark skinned people and African Americans. I'm not attempting to generalize but this is my experience with what I've seen both online and in person. "not attempting to generalize" and then making racist generalizations based on perceived biases... okay. Anyway, it unfortunately happens to every racial/ethnic group. Those bots are doing some heavy lifting on X too since Elon took over. 5
Planet Mars Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Bigotry is so normalized on the app now, but it's not particularly shocking as these individuals have always been around they are just more recently emboldened. When somebody lacks self esteem and direction, it's natural for them to project their mediocrity onto other people.
BadHabits Posted August 30 Posted August 30 44 minutes ago, illia said: Every week there are multiple hate hit tweets about offensive stereotypes of Indians smelling bad and people calling them the worst types of slurs Like this tweet has so many likes and look at all the comments agreeing Why is such behavior towards India so normalized nowadays? I disagree with all kinds of racism but there's a reason this stereotype exists: 1) Our family does a lot of Asian cooking, our close family friend who is a like a grandmother to me, lives across the road and cooks fresh Asian food every single day. Her house does smell but it's only because of the cooking she does and due to the spices and herbs she uses, that and she also uses incense. 2) It is expected that our clothes will smell if we don't change them after doing some cooking. I did some cooking involving pork and I didn't change my clothes. I then went onto a bus and a group of girls were talking about how I stank. 3) When I was 14, I went to my Sri Lankan friend's house who's called Dilo and ngl, but his house did smell pretty strong. South Asian cooking does have a lot of spices such as cinnamon, pepper, clove, cardamom, chilli, cumin, nutmeg, turmeric and ginger. Us Asians do cook a lot of Noodle and Curry dishes as those are what we grew up on and what our Parents excel at cooking. 4) There's also cultural disparities with hygiene. An Indian classmate of mine from college admitted to the whole class that he showers twice a week. We would all consciously choose to not sit next to him because his body hygiene was terrible that I would swear on the Bible in court, in front of Annalise Keating and Judge Judy that this is true. 5) There's also a traditional Hindu festival that involves hundreds of thousands of people bathing in the River Ganges which caused India to have the highest daily covid cases of 168,000. I would never bathe in a river unless there's only a small amount of people in there, even swimming pools I'm cautious of. 6) From my personal experience, British-Asians smell perfectly normal and have good hygiene, so it's usually the ones who aren't from around here. I will say that every racial group is racist in some ways. I've seen Far-East Asians be racist to black people and I have had black and white people make the eye-slant with their fingers towards us. No group is perfect. 4
dumbsparce Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Bc they're not a minority as they make up ~18% of world population
Twizzy Posted August 30 Posted August 30 1 minute ago, BornUnbroken said: "not attempting to generalize" and then making racist generalizations based on perceived biases... okay. Anyway, it unfortunately happens to every racial/ethnic group. Those bots are doing some heavy lifting on X too since Elon took over. Did we want real answers as to why everyone is so openly racist to Indians, or was this thread opened just for "Thank you Elon" comments. Because if there were ever a Racism Hot 100 opened up, South Asians might very well be at #1.. people are racist because they're 2x racist, even to their own families if their skin happens to be too dark 2 3
Dancehall Queen Posted August 30 Posted August 30 The replies are all similar edgelord style comments from/about other groups. Also saw in the replies that it was a stolen tweet after someone else got a hit out of it. Not surprised about that, it's cheap bait for engagement. The replies are also very international. I imagine the algorithm just keeps pushing those types of tweets to people who engage in nationalistic arguments (which just makes them go even more viral.) 1 1
Dolce Vita Posted August 30 Posted August 30 as a mixed pacific islander that's not white passing but gets mistaken for being other ethnicities, i notice brown people/south asians tend to be the target of casual racism a lot. i experienced this first hand growing up in a white majority area. people like to use harmful stereotypes about people of color because they uneducated idiots that were brought up by bigots and often aren't culturally aware.
Arthoe Posted August 30 Posted August 30 I think a lot of people are also underestimating how much PewDiePie contributed to the normalization of racism against Indian people in the Western Hemisphere. His entire channel was like dedicated to being racist against Indian people, because YouTube got popular in India and his white ass could not take it that he wasn't the #1 YouTuber anymore and that he actually had competition. Like he was saying sh*t like "Views from India shouldn't count, there's too many of them, it's cheating" on a regular basis and made it a point to discredit and ridicule every video from India that was viewed more frequently than his own videos. 2 2
BadHabits Posted August 30 Posted August 30 8 minutes ago, Twizzy said: Did we want real answers as to why everyone is so openly racist to Indians, or was this thread opened just for "Thank you Elon" comments. Because if there were ever a Racism Hot 100 opened up, South Asians might very well be at #1.. people are racist because they're 2x racist, even to their own families if their skin happens to be too dark I saw a horror-comedy called "The Blackening" and a main point the killer made was that black people are racist to their own people because one person might be darker or lighter than compared to the rest of their friend / family group. God forbid, a person be mixed race like Mariah Carey or Leona Lewis. The 2008, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman movie titled Australia focused on racism directed towards a young boy who is half-white and half-aboriginal and as a result, is shunned by white people for being too aboriginal and is also shunned by his own people for being too white to be aboriginal. It's a crazy world we live in...Funnily enough I have never been criticised for being too white to be Chinese or too Chinese to be white. I haven't been racially-abused or made fun of for a long time.
MonsterJohn Posted August 30 Posted August 30 I met a lot of Indians and have stayed there for a month. Let me just say the stereotype doesn't come from thin air (not try to generalize here)
favorite crime Posted August 30 Posted August 30 (edited) No shade but the comments in here pretending that it's not the case and that it's just Elon's algorithm pushing an agenda are actually not helping at all. Across all social media sites and even in popular news & media, racism against Indians is much more widespread and met with less criticism than racism against other ethnic groups. Pretending that it's not true makes the problem worse, not better Edited August 30 by favorite crime 1
IBeMe Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Yeah brown people in general get really bad treatment from media and social media in general and it is accepted. It's the next frontier in the battle against racism tbh . The hate and ignorance thrown at south asians and middle easterners is disgusting
Relampago. Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Imo racism towards Asians in general is fairly normalized in the US because they're not typically included at the forefront of racism conversations in school like Latinos (immigration on the Southern border), Black people (slavery, Civil Rights, etc) or Indigenous (colonialism and genocide). We learn about the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment camps, but it's a small footnote compared to how often the other issues are brought up and referenced. Asians are the "model minority" so racism is generally more "accepted" towards them, while also using the model minority status cast upon them to be used against other minority races. It creates this two-pronged issues where Asians are seen as close to the same status as White people so we're "allowed" to poke fun at them cause they're "not as oppressed", but on the other side they're expected to be over achievers that show you can be successful as a minority so other minorities have no excuse to not be successful.
Digitalism Posted August 30 Posted August 30 45 minutes ago, Relampago. said: Imo racism towards Asians in general is fairly normalized in the US because they're not typically included at the forefront of racism conversations in school like Latinos (immigration on the Southern border), Black people (slavery, Civil Rights, etc) or Indigenous (colonialism and genocide). I came here to post this. It is almost as if people get a pass for being racist towards asians in the US
Fleahive Posted August 30 Posted August 30 We got to learn to separate stereotypical jokes and racism.
Rino Posted August 30 Posted August 30 6 minutes ago, Fleahive said: We got to learn to separate stereotypical jokes and racism. what do you mean? the tweet in the OP is a clear example of racism.
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