Turns out it's a protest and that Indians don't actually have the survival instincts of the green-haired pixel creatures featured in the 1991 video game Lemmings
I would :picard-troll: but it's just too :picard:
Turns out it's a protest and that Indians don't actually have the survival instincts of the green-haired pixel creatures featured in the 1991 video game Lemmings
I would :picard-troll: but it's just too :picard:
White americans genuinely think Indians are insect people. The shit they'll say about them openly is appalling.
It's always so pathetic when the nationalists are trying so desperately to get the white supremacist types to like them
racism against Indians was the hardest one for me to remove from myself when I was moving into the real left out of liberalism. I'm embarrassed to admit I ever bought any of the ideas, and am very happy I purged it from myself. But yeah, the amount of horrifying disgusting things that are said an just treated as fact, like the idea they just put people on the streets to die and no one cares(and what exactly do we do about our homeless population?) or their women have no rights(cause america is a glowing paradise for women) and that they just don't clean themselves or their homes. These are the milder things, not getting into what the out and proud racists will say.
Yeah, the shit they say is fucking appalling. I was in a town group with a bunch of boomers and they would routinely call the local Indian population subhuman, imply that there were too many of them and that they need to be culled, "Muslim" jokes about Indians (like, being so ignorant you think Indians = Afghans), curry jokes, being too smelly, just all manner of denigration and cruelty
even in my day to day other minorities will occasionally talk about Indians in an "it" voice as if they don't have any humanity. I personally have had a lot of weird/bad experiences with Indians but I've also known enough of them to know that they're like....people. I remember one of my friends in middle school would cut because he was Indian. He would tell me that he wished he was at least Mexican like me "because people don't fuck with you guys as much (because everyone thinks we're all thugs or criminals, lol)".
In fact, pretty much every Indian person in the USA I know has told me they hate themselves at some point. It's fucked up shit lol.
As for the racism against Indians, yeah, I've found that hard to purge from myself, largely because a lot of them are really removed from Western Values™ (the lack of respect for personal space thing still bothers the fuck outta me) so it's jarring cohabitating with them sometimes but whatever is wrong with them is pretty much just the same shit that is wrong with everyone else, it's just we've been conditioned to give shit like insane white people a pass