Fuck.

She's pretty great

If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect

Well, which is it Google? Chai is Indian tea which was introduced by Chinese monks along the Assam border and developed as an ayurvedic (plant medicine strain) drink.

Will sketch someone in these

Zuhair Murad fall 2021 rtw

So recently this Tweet went viral on Twitter, which is generally stating something that is rather common that I have also noticed on the app. (I will say that I do believe antisemitism and anti-black racism to also be extremely normalized as well, perhaps to an even greater extent).

That being said this was the general response (found in the quote retweet and the comments) to the above tweet:

I wanted to put this together and show it to others on here because it seems that it is strongly indicative of how hated Indian people are in progressive spaces. And before someone comes after me to say this is largely online, I will state that this rhetoric is eerily similar to the discrimination I faced growing up as Indian and that I continue to face. Additionally, people online are people in real life, they carry this rhetoric in the real world too and Indian people exist online too, we see how people dislike us.

To dissect and debunk all the sentiments in the tweets above would take an immense amount of time and energy that I do not have. Even archiving and collecting these tweets caused me to fall into a spiral of stress and tension. You don't have to go through all of it, much of what is expressed is vile, but I am trying to point out something. And it's that racism against Indians has become normalized, perhaps even encouraged, obviously in right-wing spaces but in progressive and liberal-left wing spaces as well. If you click on the accounts of many of these people, you can see them advocating against other forms of racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Palestinianism etc. These are progressives, not your run-of-the-mill conservative bigots. Hostility is growing against Indians, out in the open, and it seems that not many are willing to combat or acknowledge it.

The tactics are the same of course, to take a vocal minority of a group of people and paint the vast majority as the same, effectively portraying the group as if it has monolithic ideas. This is obviously a ridiculous thing to do, but even more so when one realizes that India is home to 1.4 billion people, not counting Indians living in other countries. These are all individuals who hold their own complex ideologies and beliefs, it is not possible to condense them down to one stereotype.

Am I denying that Indian people have our own issues and bigotry (to say the least) surrounding anti-Black racism, misogyny, islamophobia, casteism etc. Absolutely not! I have spent much of my life trying to unpack these sentiments drilled into me from a young age, and I have tried to help my peers do too. I have also spent time in real world activism combating such issues, because it is the only way forward to a more equal society.

But just because our society has prejudice does not mean we should be subjected to such bigotry from other progressives or have the discrimination we face not be taken seriously. Even the worst among us does not deserve to have racist sentiments spewed against them because bigotry is wrong, point blank. We don't deserve to be called rapists, to be accused of all being racists, and say that racism against us is "self-inflicted". Indians do not deserve that, we just don't.

Lol, is this real? Even if it isn't, it's funny af.

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I can't believe Elon Musk got suspended for enjoying his own piss!!! What is happening to free speech in America ???

Not sure what's up with the later reblogs (wtf is a torment nexus) but I'd like to acknowledge that India with a population of 1.4 billion (an eigth of the world's population) produces 7% of the world's CO2 emissions whereas America produces 13% of them despite having a quarter of our population. And it's not just America. Countries like France (with 100% renewable energy) are doing great with their green energy but it still produces so many emissions. And those are the better ones. So many Western countries generate so much waste too and it's all sent here. Recycle your own waste? We have enough of our own? You're not even paying us to take care of it or giving us the resources to do so??? Why are we suffering the brunt of your unsustainable development?

it's been nice knowing you all

How to fix a guy:

1. Approach him.

2. Grab his neck.

3. Snap it.

4. Bury his body under illegal plants so it can't be dup up.

5. Run, bitch, RUN!

Accurate

Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

And they sit on 45 trillion USD that's stolen from India and have the galls to call us "poor." Who made us that way? Your ancestors did and you've done nothing to recognise or change it.

truly amazing how most of the current geopolitical conflicts across the globe can be traced directly back to English invasion/colonialism and yet those pasty fuckers on their birdshit of an island have the gall to go we're just quirky tea drinkers uwu look at our unproblematic tourist trap royal family uwu bbc Sherlock doctor who uwu we're NOTHING like those evil racist Americans uwu