2y ago

Anon meets a guy online

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2y ago

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Could be Pakistani. The most Indian-hating person I ever met was a Pakistani guy.
- India and Pakistan have a bit of a history
  
  Understatement of the century ☝️
- Honestly it's either or. I knew a couple of guys back in uni, one Indian the other Pakistani and they were really tight. Maybe it's just the narrow minded bigots who blindly hate another because of political history rather than treat them as an individual.
  Also knew an Israeli and a Palestinian (weren't tight as such but were friendly with each other).
  
  Honestly, it's a love-hate relationship. There's nobody they hate more than the other, at the same time there's nobody who understands them better than the other.
  Even then, the hate is mostly political. It's politically beneficial to both countries to keep the hate flowing.
  Source: am Pakistani.
- PAKISTAN NUMBER ONE 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🔥
  
  Why are you burning the flag?
Anon actually so racist can't tell Indians apart from Pakistanis
- Pakistan -> Muslim Indians
  
  Found the Indian.
- Same story for Africa and the Middle East
  
  ? They actually spent a lot of time looking over census data to see where the majorities were. That's why some of the lines are so weird.
  
  It's been seventy years now. How long do you think dead Britons will have more responsibility for and power over India and Pakistan than the people in those countries?
- I dont think that applies only to racist people
- When you don't know that they are ethnically the same people....
I used to work with this lifted-truck literally red-necked red neck. He kept going on about how hot his girl was, and how white she was.
One day he shows me her picture, and she was indeed a very hot dark skinned Latina. Some people are just in denial.
- A lot of Latin American people see themselves as white and would get very offended if you suggest otherwise
  Edit: Sorry I had no idea latinx was offensive
  
  They'd certainly get offended if someone referred to them as "latinx", lol
  
  Having had this conversation with literally 300+ hispanic people, never once has a single one had a single positive thought about "latinx". Gendered nouns is literally a large part of their language.
  
  I lot of Latinos are white, but she was not. Of course to a racist like this guy, no Latino is really white.
  
  Please stop using "latinx".
  
  Only Americans seem to draw a distinction between Spanish descendents other European descendents. Presumably because they're poor and on the wrong side of a line someone drew on a map.
  Antonio Banderas was bemused when he was labelled a "person of colour".
  
  Yes I've had this argument with some Latino people. I guess they don't to be on the shitside of the stratification, but the racist whites hate them as well.
I mean, we're on Lemmy, every American here hates America
- Why did you bold the "a" at the end of America?
  
  Didn't occur to me right away but you're right. On the other hand, if they live in India then most of the people who ever wronged them would also be from India (which is also not an ethnic group as pointed out)
- I don't, but I'm not very popular around here either. My country is far from ideal, but I still mostly like it.
- Just the loud shitters. I love my american friends and their culture
- I don't hate America, I just wish we could be better. Hate takes too much energy
I feel like this phenomenon should have a catchy name, like: "No one hates Scotsmen more than Scotsmen."
- Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
- It's called "uncle ruckus" In my circles.
  
  Omg, I forgot about that character 😅
I have an Asian buddy that rages over how bad Asian drivers are and even gives them the fingers pulling his eyes even more closed move while passing them. I don't go anywhere in a car with him anymore... Come to think of it I rarely see him now...
- Is it because you're pulling your eyes closed?
  
  no, they're just like that
  
  nah he just blends into the background of other asians he hangs out with
- Sounds like a great guy lmao
- I'm an old white guy, i think old white guys are mostly assholes so there is that.
How does anon know they aren't from Bangladesh or Nepal or something?
- It's all India, mate
  
  All part of Akhand Bharat.
- Are you talking about North- and East-India?
- India-Bangladesh and India-Nepal relations are usually good. There are disagreements over water-sharing and borders, but not to the extent that people hate each other.
  India-Pakistan there is some amount of hatred. At this point it is mostly performative, but unfortunately some people take it too far.
Or possibly Pakistani. That whole hate your neighbour thing.
Have you met Americans?
Source: I'm an American.
It's like Americans on lemmy!
Oh yeah they made a documentary about the guy
Or they could be from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka...
- met a guy online who has [opinions]
  see the guy
  I'm not racist or anything but he's clearly [race] so his [opinions] are hypocritical
Familiarity breeds contempt
Sounds like this Dave Chapelle bit...
https://youtu.be/BLNDqxrUUwQ?feature=shared
As mentioned in the thread, self-hatred or the guy being Pakistani are two likely explanations. Maybe a third scenario could be he was testing if Anon was racist against Indians as well before presenting himself.
Indians brought their caste discrimination system over here...
I'm not a fan of the british...
Am british...

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