The bullying of Indians online has gone too far

[JassieDusk]

Just as the title says, it has gone too far. I've never spoken about this online nor in real life but I feel like I have to say something.
It's not funny, it's not even mean. It's cruel.

If you're active on any social platform you probably noticed the mockery of India and its people, making up nicknames like "popjeet" or whatever…I don't know if I even spelled it correctly. What's the point of making videos of "being thankful" that you weren't born as a specific race, saying it needs to be deleted?
What if I, as a Slavic, said the same things about the black community? Would I also get thousands of likes and support for my racist behavior?

People need to realize that Indians make up 18% of the population, meaning that out of 100 people 18 are Indian, that's a huge number, and I bet not even 3 out of 100 Indians fit the stereotypes people made up about them.
Yes, there are horrible people everywhere as well as in India, but why are we generalizing? When did we lose humanity? When did we, as the human race, become so cruel and emotionless?
I can't imagine existing on the internet as an Indian and my heart goes out to them who face rejection and mockery just because they are from a specific country. Because no matter how much you deny, this should've never been normalized.

 

[sanctionedusage]

the call's coming from inside the house.

 

[Buffy]

What if I, as a Slavic, said the same things about the black community? Would I also get thousands of likes and support for my racist behavior?

From what I've seen, yes, absolutely. You could set up a fundraiser and get hundreds of thousands of dollars from racists around the world.

But besides that, I agree with everything you said. Hate against Indians has been far too normalised. You see people from every political spectrum, ethnicity, and religion repeating and using the same hateful language: people who you'd think would be above this behaviour, especially as they could be the next targets for a smear campaign.

And whenever you speak up about it, they label you as Indian just to mock you. It's genuinely frustrating to come across these racist posts because they're everywhere, you can't escape them.

the call's coming from inside the house.

What did you mean by this?

 

[sanctionedusage]

What did you mean by this?

we had an indian, not even yesterday, come in and start ranting about himself and other indians using the racial slurs (and more) written here. the timing of this post makes me think its related to that. the tone of this post is super ironic if it is, considering it was a self hating kind of thing ('call's coming from inside the house;). even outside of sasu, a massive chunk of casual racism is full-on self hatred masked as 'reclaiming,' followed by minority on minority discrimination.

 

[Quantum_Marten0302]

Im not indian and dont know any so i dont care about it

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't really frequent many online spaces apart from here so, I haven't seen too much of this. The Indian people I've known in real life have been lovely people mostly.

That said, who doesn't receive scamming phone calls every other week? That does generate hate because these people are targeting our vulnerable family members to then steal from them. We absolutely shouldn't be judging a whole race according to a few bad apples but then- more ought to be done within their country to stop them. You can't expect to have pleasant international relationships when one set of people is trying to scam the other.

Immigration isn't always a success either. People can suddenly find that they no longer feel welcome in their home towns if they become predominantly inhabited by another race. People either side don't necessarily want to intergrate- they want to make their patch of land feel like home.

That said, given our history with the British Empire, I don't think the UK has much right to complain. But- within living memory- the natives here don't actually remember invading other countries and subjugating the people there.

There should of course be an acknowledgement that we are all just humans trying to survive- no matter our race. But then- we're also pack animals. Animals generally don't tolerate other clans entering their space and taking their resources.

I think people in the UK and maybe elsewhere generally feel threatened sometimes. I don't know whether it's true. I don't know where the rumour even started but a school teacher friend was told that Indian families were actually instructed to have 5 children in order to gain the most benefits. I think natives can get the sense that they are being pushed out of their homes. I also think that certain government factions encourage this paranoia because, it suites their own agenda.

That's not to excuse racism. It shouldn't be happening but then- I think why it does happen needs to be considered too. Not that there's much of a solution I suspect.

 

[WhatCouldHaveBeen32]

Yeah I've seen that. it's the same as anti-semitism.

Calling out zionism and saying it's bad and that the state of Israel fcking sucks does not mean I hate Jews.

Calling out India's misogynistic society and saying it's bad does not mean I hate Indians.

However I only call these things out like this, people online have seen this and they don't even care about Palestinians or Women, their thought process is literally:

"Oh my god, nation X just did something awful I CAN USE SLURS SLURS SLURS SLURS SLURS SLURS SLURS" Like a frothing at the mouth 15 year old.

Basically America towards muslims after 9/11 for some reason XD (I am still critical of Islam as I am towards every religion on earth)

But this are most countries towards eachother, are all humans just waiting for an opportunity to be an asshole?

 

[badatparties]

I don't really frequent many online spaces apart from here so, I haven't seen too much of this. The Indian people I've known in real life have been lovely people mostly.

That said, who doesn't receive scamming phone calls every other week? That does generate hate because these people are targeting our vulnerable family members to then steal from them. We absolutely shouldn't be judging a whole race according to a few bad apples but then- more ought to be done within their country to stop them. You can't expect to have pleasant international relationships when one set of people is trying to scam the other.

Immigration isn't always a success either. People can suddenly find that they no longer feel welcome in their home towns if they become predominantly inhabited by another race. People either side don't necessarily want to intergrate- they want to make their patch of land feel like home.

That said, given our history with the British Empire, I don't think the UK has much right to complain. But- within living memory- the natives here don't actually remember invading other countries and subjugating the people there.

There should of course be an acknowledgement that we are all just humans trying to survive- no matter our race. But then- we're also pack animals. Animals generally don't tolerate other clans entering their space and taking their resources.

I think people in the UK and maybe elsewhere generally feel threatened sometimes. I don't know whether it's true. I don't know where the rumour even started but a school teacher friend was told that Indian families were actually instructed to have 5 children in order to gain the most benefits. I think natives can get the sense that they are being pushed out of their homes. I also think that certain government factions encourage this paranoia because, it suites their own agenda.

That's not to excuse racism. It shouldn't be happening but then- I think why it does happen needs to be considered too. Not that there's much of a solution I suspect.

The problem is, it's going from nuanced discussion, to full blown, all out cruel racism. No everyone is discussing issues of integration, hygiene, Indian cultural problems, lack of civic sense etc.

People are using derogatory and dehumanizing language, and it's widespread all over the internet. That's what OP is talking about.

Unfortunately OP, this is just the human condition. I suggest voluntary human extinction.

 

[Forever Sleep]

The problem is, it's going from nuanced discussion, to full blown all out cruel racism. No everyone is discussing issues of integration, human nature, Indian cultural problems, lack of civic sense etc.

People are using derogatory and dehumanizing language, and it's widespread all over the internet. That's what OP is talking about.

Then, I agree- that is awful. I tend to avoid a lot of the (social) internet I suppose so, I haven't seen it so much.

From what you're observing though, it reminds me of the book: 'The banality of evil'. It's actually pretty scary what humans will allow and even join in doing- if the majority are doing it.

I wonder whether it's because they feel actual personal animosity or whether it's more to be included in the group. I had a couple of times during childhood that I bullied others as part of the group I was in. I'm obviously ashamed of it now.

Again, it's not justifying it. Just saying we're a species with pretty horrible and weak traits sometimes. People can be vile though.

Sometimes I think it's deeply troubling because- does it mean we want or need someone to hate? Even if it's in retaliation? I remember somewhere I read that the author thought the only thing that would unite the whole human race would be an outside threat- aliens or AI robots or something. Where they could become the 'other' we all hate in unison.

 

[Happy Cat]

Just as the title says, it has gone too far. I've never spoken about this online nor in real life but I feel like I have to say something.
It's not funny, it's not even mean. It's cruel.

If you're active on any social platform you probably noticed the mockery of India and its people, making up nicknames like "popjeet" or whatever…I don't know if I even spelled it correctly. What's the point of making videos of "being thankful" that you weren't born as a specific race, saying it needs to be deleted?
What if I, as a Slavic, said the same things about the black community? Would I also get thousands of likes and support for my racist behavior?

People need to realize that Indians make up 18% of the population, meaning that out of 100 people 18 are Indian, that's a huge number, and I bet not even 3 out of 100 Indians fit the stereotypes people made up about them.
Yes, there are horrible people everywhere as well as in India, but why are we generalizing? When did we lose humanity? When did we, as the human race, become so cruel and emotionless?
I can't imagine existing on the internet as an Indian and my heart goes out to them who face rejection and mockery just because they are from a specific country. Because no matter how much you deny, this should've never been normalized.

You do know that India has one of the most highest percentage of rape and pollution right? They got that high population for a reason... I won't go out of my way to make fun of them or anything but you'll never catch me going to India. Just saying