AbhiramI don't usually post about this kind of stuff, but being an Indian on the internet lately has been incredibly demoralizing and quite frankly, exhausting. I feel like we hit a tipping point in the last couple of days where everyone just silently agreed that it was okay to be extra awful to us.
I'm pretty sure what sparked all this new hate is the Twitter account location rollout. Once everyone saw botfarms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it triggered a massive, generalized backlash against any brown person online.
Don't get me wrong, racism existed before. But back then, it was mostly contained within alt-right circles. You expected it there. It was ugly, but it was honest hate.
What’s happening now is different. I’ve watched otherwise progressive and "PoC-friendly" communities normalize the use of grotesque, casteist, and ableist 4chan caricatures (like the "pajeet" memes) to shut down Indian voices. They hide behind "dark woke" like it's a shield to justify calling us slurs and dehumanizing us.
This shit has no place in progressive spaces. In my opinion, this is way more dangerous than alt-right racism because it comes from people who claim to be allies. It leaves you with no defense.
The double standard here is blatant.
When people meme about Russian or Israeli botfarms, they use images of actual soldiers or uniformed personnel, but when they target brown people, it's always that specific, dehumanizing 4chan caricature.
I think scambaiters like Kitboga inadvertently added to this racism (even though Kitboga is incredibly good about not letting racism take root in his community) because of the repeated exposure to Indian scam call centers. I feel like it creates a psychological permission structure to call Indians "scammers".
Sorry for the rant, I’m just tired. I spend my time fighting for the rights of other marginalized groups, advocating for people whenever their humanity is questioned. It is incredibly demoralizing to realize that those same spaces won’t do the same for me. I just wish people would see Indians as actual human beings, not an amalgamation of negative stereotypes perpetuated by the worst corners of the internet.
#racism #racismsucks #india #rant
I'm pretty sure what sparked all this new hate is the Twitter account location rollout. Once everyone saw botfarms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it triggered a massive, generalized backlash against any brown person online.
Don't get me wrong, racism existed before. But back then, it was mostly contained within alt-right circles. You expected it there. It was ugly, but it was honest hate.
What’s happening now is different. I’ve watched otherwise progressive and "PoC-friendly" communities normalize the use of grotesque, casteist, and ableist 4chan caricatures (like the "pajeet" memes) to shut down Indian voices. They hide behind "dark woke" like it's a shield to justify calling us slurs and dehumanizing us.
This shit has no place in progressive spaces. In my opinion, this is way more dangerous than alt-right racism because it comes from people who claim to be allies. It leaves you with no defense.
The double standard here is blatant.
When people meme about Russian or Israeli botfarms, they use images of actual soldiers or uniformed personnel, but when they target brown people, it's always that specific, dehumanizing 4chan caricature.
I think scambaiters like Kitboga inadvertently added to this racism (even though Kitboga is incredibly good about not letting racism take root in his community) because of the repeated exposure to Indian scam call centers. I feel like it creates a psychological permission structure to call Indians "scammers".
Sorry for the rant, I’m just tired. I spend my time fighting for the rights of other marginalized groups, advocating for people whenever their humanity is questioned. It is incredibly demoralizing to realize that those same spaces won’t do the same for me. I just wish people would see Indians as actual human beings, not an amalgamation of negative stereotypes perpetuated by the worst corners of the internet.
#racism #racismsucks #india #rant
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