Racism Against Indians Online

[@naysha323]

the white girl who gave me hell for being indian and hindu throughout middle and high school now runs a yoga studio 💀💀

[@Lapagfam]

BRUH 💀💀💀

[@theeverydayworldofbodies3779]

​@@happypaws24?

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Lol, she probably doesn't even know where yoga is from.

[@rohhhann]

And the crazy thing is yoga studios tend to be predominantly white middle class spaces that are exclusionary to Indians and women of colour

[@Hjjkvy5zx]

Indians themselves are casually racist towards black people don’t play the victim card now

[@eo0-g9j]

people be like 'stop asian hate' until it's about indians or south asians in general

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Even then, they stopped talking about it when they found out most of the assaults were done by black people. But obv bcos black ppl can never be racist.

[@githmi.]

exactly

[@lovespellmami]

it all stems back to whiteness

[@enchantedlibrary3409]

Fr. They only care about the mainstream counties 💀

[@sumandutta4834]

Agree. The counter argument given is Indians don't think themselves as Asians hence often not included. It is their fault.

[@y9khvad]

being racist to Indians is actually considered funny on the internet. ” curry ” and several other terms for the mockery of Indians is so normalized at this point, hope this video reaches to a whole lot of people for awareness.

[@si3916]

fr !!!

[@javiartem]

there’s recently an upsurge in racism on the internet recently, you would think it would become less common, but it seems we’re regressing instead of progressing, lots of sexism and homophobia/transphobia too, and if you try to educate these people, they’ll just call you a pedo, while claiming they’re being logical and factual while anyone else is being emotional, it’s ridiculous

[@gianni_schicchi]

Indians on my telegram groups I used to manage were the most racist 🤷‍♂️

[@DioBrando-qr6ye]

​@@yereyesarebleedingbut I think that calling racist stuff that is not racist, like the PewDiePie stuff, devalue the word. If you call everything racist people will start asking: does he mean racism racism or "racism"?

[@Byronh1204]

I feel like it’s towards asians in general too

[@iambored678]

The hate against Indians really has this vitriol behind it. I met an Afghan guy at a party once, he said he was bullied a lot as a kid about being all types of races he wasn't. The worst bullying he received, by far, was when people thought he was Indian.

[@amyk.2500]

I work in IT and often work with Indian software engineers. Last year at a company I was working for, my tech lead made an incredibly racist joke about not wanting to hire Indian folks because the “office kitchen would always smell like curry.” I reported the “joke” to management, and I was fired less than 48 hours later. Yes me, not the man who made the joke. That’s how normalized it is. I can’t imagine it would have gone that way if I had reported an offensive joke about anything else.

[@isacatt]

thats actually such a wild thing to do

[@slowcatsleeps]

In most parts we're not even seen as humans :')

[@bellamcfaul8259]

@@truthbird1527Curry smells delicious. I don’t want YOU in the community kitchen. Stay in your cubicle and cry about it.

[@anikaahmed9700]

It’s weird how our trainings tell us to take this step. But when it comes to practice it’s selective

[@dice412]

@@truthbird1527okay?? That doesn’t mean Indians all smell like curry

[@kunitherock]

i’m not indian , i’m african american, but i’ve always found it so strange how indians are treated on the internet. like not only the racism, but the way other races who know prejudice respond / don’t see it as a problem either. that’s why i’m subscribe to your channel, because you’re informative about a race i’ve only ever seen painted in a negative light

[@uniquenewyork3325]

Same. I feel like there's a little more of a connection between black and brown people, at least in my eyes, because we have to deal with the discrimination we face for the shade of our skin.

[@bunnytheknoxville]

🐇

[@wasalLETS]

@@bunnytheknoxville🐇

[@-amoureuse-9489]

They don’t even like us black people

[@bunnytheknoxville]

@@nihilismful ???? i commented with a bunny because op has a k-pop profile picture…. are you okay

[@waltercronkite1387]

Why does NOBODY ever talk about this???? It’s crazy to me. I’m a white person born & raised in Canada, & the every day racism towards Indian & Middle Eastern people is so blatant, I don’t understand how people don’t talk about it. Like it’s SO normalized, it seems crazy to me that none of the big leftist content creators ever bring it up

[@egomaniac1209]

As much as we try to counter the false and hateful narrative, it doesn't help when we have self loathing people within our very own community, who are a liability that lack self respect.

[@emzetkin1100]

​@@egomaniac1209 Franz Fanon would say that the colonized feels self hatred because of our oppression.

[@egomaniac1209]

@@emzetkin1100 And I agree to a certain extent that it's wrong that they're made to feel that way and their problems aren't being heard to and addressed. But generalizing the innocent who haven't done wrong to them and assuming a population of 1.4 billion people as oppressors for the wrongdoings of a 100 people isn't solving the problem, it's being a part of it. Don't you think that would even justify what terrorists and those seeking revenge from the authority do?

[@hannahbrr269]

Right. It’s so normalized

[@Gabriel_Blair]

even seeing just the title of the video i wanted to come in to lament this. ive lived an hour from vancouver my whole life and recently moved to an hour from toronto and from there to here the weird disgust with them bewilders me constantly. coming from my parents, my siblings, my peers back in school and now in work, from people im told i should hold as authority its nothing but unreasonable hatred. its practically became ritual with me and my best friend when eating something we bought even just from an establishment owned by indian people that his dad was going to show up and say something inflammatory. i go to work and the conversation on break is about them 'bringing sickness to our country'. i get into an uber with my mother and she uses some disgusting belittling accent as if it somehow makes it easier for this driver, well fluent in english to understand. i hate it here, at least on that front.

[@AurumnBGM]

9:20 This!! Im an Egyptian and I remember this one dude at school called my packed lunch “nasty Indian food” as he walked by me, and then they randomly kept calling me Indian after that 💀 But I feel y’all on this, we Egyptians also face a strange rush of racism online. We cant even bring up that we are Egyptian without some rock head starting an ancient egyptian race debate or calling us “Arab invaders”. They don’t even know what Arab means, and we don’t consider ourselves Arabs whatsoever, the Western society has just grouped all Arabic speakers as “Arabs” Just like how they grouped South Asia. I feel like if the USA or Canada actually teach history and Geography correctly and NOT how they fantasise it to be (cough cough, Cleopatra documentary, cough) we could see less generalisations and overall a little less racism.

[@BulkBogan1920]

Your food stinks as bad as indians

[@timelyferry]

If anything they are revealing how dumb and ignorant they are

[@aherdofsheep]

​@@BulkBogan1920 please go touch grass instead of crying online about people existing you demon xxx

[@sarahismyalias4672]

The one thing that turned me off PewDiePie completely was how he contributed SO MUCH towards casual racism against Indians.

[@indrinita]

I mean he glorified/normalized Nazi ideology and Nazi symbols at some point, so...

[@syrup-]

Yep. I was told by the internet that Indians are sensitive. We are just desensitized. I really wanna thank Saji for making this video :)

[@sarahismyalias4672]

@@indrinita Yeah, but I only found out about that stuff after I stopped watching him.

[@syrup-]

​@@internetstranger- This new bombardment of people being racist with no questions asked is seriously disgusting me. They are huge hypocrites.

[@emzetkin1100]

​@@syrup- It's very much because of how readily racists can shut down any criticism with "that sounds pretty woke to me"

[@SRR-rh7id]

Hi, Saji! I'm from Pakistan and I am a stutterer. I'm deeply affected by your courage to put your stutter out there on the internet without any hesitancy. It is really inspiring.

[@baddie21358]

Pakistanis are ok

[@colinouille2786]

honestly it's so weird because there's not many other youtubers which have a stutter and the amount of editing that usually goes on to remove the smallest of gaps this was both sort of jarring but also I think that shouldn't be something that bothers anyone nearly as much as it does? I'm autistic so I know how it feels to be judged on shit you literally can't control unless you actively repress part of yourself (which I did do; I love internalizing negative sentiments towards myself and my broader subgroup as a result of social norms!) and it's kinda exactly the same thing there? I guess what I meant to mean is more like, fuck norms and just challenge me because that's legitimately how people work? I'm very long-winded I hope this makes sense I think I'm dehydrated

[@b6b6b6b6b6]

bruh, the irony of saying without any “hesitancy” lol (Get it? Because stuttering literally makes people hesitate.)

[@hearts.22]

​@@baddie21358wdym by that?

[@colinouille2786]

@@b6b6b6b6b6 yes we get the joke thank you bye bye

[@neorennn]

the thing with racism against us Indians online is that no one ever wants to call out their favourite creators for being racist, because in india's there's a mindset of "oh we can take jokes!" and even if the jokes do hurt them, and they aren't really jokes they don't want to consider themselves "snow flakes" so they'd rather have the racist stereotypes continue and becoming a laughing stock rather than just call the creators out

[@saisohan2409]

this is so true 🥲

[@evrmoriann]

OMFG THIS IS SO TRUE

[@monbub]

THISS and the way we join in the jokes as if they're even funny. these jokes got old a long time ago.

[@weirdasff]

This is so mf true, I used to be sooo against this from the beginning and later became what you just explained but after a while of realisation I understood it's not wrong that Im standing up for my people, it's those mf racists that are in the wrong

[@weirdasff]

Even indian american creators creating content like this to cater the american audience

[@drabulusdael9329]

i think the “scam” youtube content contributed to this problem a lot. i’ve seen so many videos where instead of the comments just saying it’s wrong scam the elderly, it’s racist comments about their accent and them not understanding things. thank you for making this video, you’re doing a great thing.

[@themegadude900]

Kitboga has been a boon for the scambait community. 😊

[@drabulusdael9329]

@ completely agree, he does it right every time and never makes fun of accents :)

[@isabellamoreno2525]

As a Mexican, I can't help but feel for the Indian community because when you think about it, we are both stereotyped as dirty, stupid, ugly, making fun of people with thick accents, etc. It always rubbed me the wrong way how normalized it was, and it's not just white people, either. It causes so much ignorance, too. India is such a diverse country with a huge mixture of cultures, so when people just reduce Indian people to stereotypes, it's just insulting, honestly.

[@egomaniac1209]

I didn't realize they stereotyped your community as well like ours, I thought you'll got along as you're literally the southern neighbor of the US and an NA country. It maybe true, but I've yet to see a single instance of it happening constantly each day, even your characters are shown as mafia overlords, who are perceived as evil, but cool. The most racist stuff I've observed is Mexico always shown in the yellow tint cameras in Hollywood movies.

[@tilebreakers]

Mexican people are seen as ugly, dirty, and stupid? What?? People who say that are insane

[@lurji]

im a white honduran and i prefer mexicans to indians lol

[@egomaniac1209]

@@lurji of course you do, the first three words of your sentence didn't make it difficult to understand why

[@isabellamoreno2525]

@@egomaniac1209 Perhaps it's a more Western problem. I definitely notice more prejudice towards Indian people, though.

[@arriek.1375]

being punjabi descent, what grinds my mf gears is that how many people don’t know how after 9/11, how many older punjabi sikh were murdered because they were mistaken for terrorists. other thing that bothers me is how many indian stereotypes are pushed on other south asian ethnic groups and then people pull the “well all y’all look alike” card.

[@africareigns]

The Sikh gentlemen were mistaken for Muslims. Terrorists isn't interchangeable for Muslims, however much the media have made it so since 9/11.

[@genderfluidlygay7146]

LITERALLY. Also let's not forget the BLATANT racism on tiktok (the one guy who goes "dingnindingning" whenever he has something to say AS A INDIAN and also encourages or makes vids with creators from other races to do the same) I never understood why such videos were so liked, those vids had MILLIONS of likes. Gross.

[@cowabunga_mother]

literally! our turban makes us easily identifiable and when one of my friends moved to the US, his mother made him cut his hair so that he isn't brutally murdered. hate crimes against sikhs need more attention, people shouldn't feel the need to abandon their faith to just stay alive!

[@shukriisse6917]

They weren’t murdered b/c they looked like “terrorists” they were murdered b/c racist white folks (actual terrorists) confused them for Muslims. But I agree even in “Asian” spaces issues faced by South Asians (as well as SEAs, and Middle Easterners) are not really talked about. There are still a lot of Americans who don’t think South Asian are Asians.

[@ni9260]

Earlier this week I mentioned to a person at my school about a sikh man my parents knew who was treated poorly after 9/11. They then went on to attempt to justify this hate with something along the lines of people deserving to be afraid. If one was so afraid they should know more about the situation and not to blame every brown man, and he is also American should he not be 2 too?

[@lillianblack8749]

Saying “you’re not Asian your Indian” is the same vibe as “Egypt isn’t in Africa, Africa is a country”

[@rachitdang7453]

Western Culture Hypocrisy in a nutshell. How they fail to realize people from India, Middle-East and some parts of Russia being Asians too is appalling.

[@vinvyl957]

@@drcgonanthropology has been debunked

[@vinvyl957]

@@drcgon the terms “mongoloid” and etc are terms used in an outdated pseudo science field of anthropology, being debunked by universities.

[@vinvyl957]

@@drcgon but we’re still Asian regardless lol, go to the UK and ask them about Asians

[@BonVoyage861]

​@@drcgonNo, because 1) The average geographical knowledge in Europe is higher than other regions and 2) We get more South Asians in Europe than East Asians so the opposite would be true if anything. Why are you typing near essay length posts on things you don't know about?

[@dojapup]

"im a blue eyed white dragon while youre just dark magician" NEVER rubbed me the right way LOL

[@wilsonwade6361]

In defense of pewds, that was a reference to yu gi oh. It wasn't intended to be racist.

[@dojapup]

@wilsonwade6361 i know its yugioh but he knows what it sounds like

[@wilsonwade6361]

I don't think that it was intended.​@@dojapup

[@smithsunleashed]

@@wilsonwade6361it was racist. How can y’all literally pretend not to see it? Do you realize it can be a reference to yu-gi-oh and be racist at the same time

[@smithsunleashed]

@@wilsonwade6361it doesn’t make it okay. That’s the problem with many people. Just because you ignorantly say racist things without “meaning” to be racist, it doesn’t mean its okay.

[@tomatosoup1304]

The casual racism towards Indians is insane. People are so nonchalant about it and get so confused or even offended when they're called out for it. It doesn't help that many people within our community are willing to let it go to appease to others (KSI saying the p slur) and act like just because they're okay doesn't mean that it's correct. The T Series incident was so weird to me, India is huge as a country and a people, it's not surprising they would use youtube and listen to their country's music, family certainly did. Then we have big youtubers getting so shocked that Indian people exist and subscribe to content that appeals to them

[@elidrissii]

The P slur? Pajeet or Paki?

[@Yourhandleneedstobeatleast]

What is the p slur?

[@areeba7045]

@@Yourhandleneedstobeatleast i think the one the person who replied above u mentioned

[@AyanAli-py7ci]

Pakistanis are generally violent Sooner or later, they will riot

[@AyanAli-py7ci]

​@@areeba7045Pakistanis are generally violent and will riot in Britain

[@-lemonade-9412]

As an Indian, it’s weird to be acknowledged at all. I used to take whatever I could get, but you learn that it’s probably worse to watch racist media then no media.

[@Janon743]

I’ve always believed that it was worst for us to have bad representation than no representation in media and entertainment lol As you can see we have some of the results of that, that real indians have to deal with now

[@Hjjkvy5zx]

Indians themselves are casually racist towards black people don’t play the victim card now

[@mahavirshah999]

Fr

[@cowabunga_mother]

@@Janon743 i wish my younger self understood that. i used to be so happy to see raj from tbbt because he looked like me. it is now that when i look back, that show makes me disgusted. especially that one episode where the recurring joke was "raj should go back to india so that he won't cause any problems".

[@monbub]

real. remember when RRR won an oscar? yeah I had to double check if I was dreaming at that moment because we barely ever get any attention from hollywood, or the media in general.

[@asteranderson3115]

This video was so informative c: as someone from Australia i witness so much racism towards brown people and lumping them all together as indian and it makes me feel so gross, I'm indigenous Australian myself but because of the genocide of our people's and how we were basically bred out im am very white passing and i have to witness white people think im a safe space to be racist around

[@BelBelle468]

The idea of there being a “safe space” to be racist is just so freaky to me.

[@krushn4]

i’m sorry you have to deal with that :(

[@ella-louise9537]

I agree, I’m Māori Australian and the amount of ppl who have been extremely racist around me is insane. From Someone telling me the chefs at my work who are from Nepal are lying because they’re “just from Indian and they just say that” to ppl saying colonisation was the best thing that ever happened for aus/nz like 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@neptunenix2000]

@@BelBelle468 It's actually insanely common. As a white Aussie, I've had countless other white people (including my own family) be openly racist around me because they think that I'll be ok with it.

[@DivineKala]

​@throwawayaccount4008 I've made no attempt to hide my anti-racism sentiments (also white) and still people are surprised when I chew them out about their bullshit. Especially my country Victoria relos who think calling people slurs is funny. I won't stand for it. The least I can do is try to change things.

[@HarpinderTalks]

It's a trend to hate Indians online. Some people don't even know Indians or anything about India but they'll still pass racist comments on Indians because it's funny and cool and they'll get attention by doing that.

[@bridgetrajan]

The story about the girl’s food hit me so hard because that happened to me. In elementary school kids told me my food looked disgusting and gross and because of that I stopped taking food to school for YEARS. It took me until college to finally be comfortable taking my Indian food to school. And now all my friends tell me it looks delicious and they always want to try it! And still to this day it’s hard for me to believe people when they say that it looks good 😭

[@snowshower4415]

Same here. It wasn't Indian food, but it was my taste and it REALLY put me off from bringing my food. I told a teacher and she made the mis apologized but it felt superficial, yk? I bring Indian food to school now- I'm in my last yr of highschool. And I totally get what you mean by not believing them. I eat rice, roti, etc w my hands and I still get weird looks here n there.

[@finnuhhh]

indian food is DELICIOUS how do people think its disgusting? 💀

[@CarrotSpunk.]

Kids are stupid man I bet their parents never taught them any better and made their kids soak up their bad habits.

[@kakonthebed]

People seeing one of objectively the best cuisine cultures in the world and going “ew” is the pinnacle of stupid. Don’t worry, natural selection will get them 😌

[@kee7374]

People treat race/culture as trends. Right now it’s “cool” to eat traditional foods

[@alexandrakoshy8046]

young people need these kinds of videos. I'm half hispanic and half indian. growing up in the early 2000s was tough, being called names & being told to "go back to india." All I wanted was to be white. And I'm STILL working through a ton of internalized racism! Great video, Saji.

[@Autogenification]

Yeah I feel you. Not the same situation, but my parents are from Mauritius and growing up in England I've always been lumped into Indian stereotypes (e.g. white kids asking if my parents own a corner shop) and I've also had quite a bit of Islamophobia thrown at me, and I'm not even Muslim 😂 Gotta love being part of an edge case 👌 Interestingly, Indians and even British-born Indians sometimes ask me if I'm Gujrati/talk to me in Hindi, so I've unintentionally learned some stuff about regions and castes in India LOL

[@johnkingbad]

@@Autogenification Yes I am Indian and have gotten Islamphobia too, even though I am Hindu???

[@johnkingbad]

@@lilacdust540 I have an African friend who is from a Muslim country, and many assume he is not muslim simply because he is black.

[@aranielleb7718]

Big hugs to you ❤

[@ibrokemyownheart4953]

Me too, you’re not alone. I can’t believe when I was little I wished to be white with blonde hair and blue eyes.

[@kaisaleh7268]

As an Iraqi, I'm so glad you mentioned that Asia also includes us, it's nice to hear someone else knows. Also, I noticed that some of the racist stereotypes of food overlap, I had people saying my food stunk as well and it sucks. Can't wait to see more from you!

[@egomaniac1209]

Do not ever surrender and bow to those who mock your identity and the aspects of it or treat those who put your community down to appease others just to appear cool as your own.

[@gotemleanin4463]

​@@egomaniac1209you have to call it out in person when you see it too, I think alot of people see South Asians as "Soft" and think they won't speak up about it.

[@egomaniac1209]

@@gotemleanin4463 I try to do my fair share about it online, but it doesn't help when I've lived a majority of my life in India, like I was literally born and brought up there. It's only recently that I relocated to another country, and I agree to your observations about the SAs not being bold enough to call BS as it is.

[@egomaniac1209]

​@@gotemleanin4463As they should, that self induced trauma will scar them for life and will make them think a thousand times before stirring things up with an Indian.

[@CarrotSpunk.]

Sorry that has happened to you I'm sure your food is probably the tastiest looking to ever graze this earth.

[@ororomunroe8239]

I remember chatting with an Indian dude online and he told me when people he’s chatting with find out he’s from India the conversation ends immediately

[@aayushattri3238]

I remember a story on reddit where a woman asked if it was ok to be uncomfortable around some indian dude, everyone said its alright shes doing it for her own safety, then people copied her story replaced indian with black and posted it again and they were called racist lmao. Like dgmw prioritize your safety around men if you are a woman but dont paint it as some race thing.

[@apparentlyasun]

it's so disappointing how often I've seen people call India or Indian people dirty or smelly and act like that's totally fine, there's so much casual racism

[@frogdeity]

Not racist if true.

[@snowshower4415]

​@@frogdeityliterally not true. People fucking pick on untrue stereotypes and throw it at EVERYONE. It's literally what racism is

[@frogdeity]

@@snowshower4415 Perhaps you are incapable of noticing.

[@snowshower4415]

@@frogdeity if you don't give a shit about people, just admit it. But if you've never been around Desi ppl, if You've never been around Asians, or even a POC, then maybe you should reevaluate your life. And if you were raised being taught that, maybe reevaluate your education and consider getting further education from decent people who don't pick on other's races and ethnicities

[@frogdeity]

@@snowshower4415 I lived in a city with a major Indian population for years. I've been around Indians. I very much care about people. I just don't deny reality.

[@limedesi4]

I can't tell you how sad it makes me that Raj from Big Bang Theory is probably one of the most recognized roles for Indians in English language media. His character, like all the others on that show, was a gigantic stereotype but because of the racial element made it so much worse.

[@strepsilsaregood4u]

Either Raj from Big Bang Theory or Ravi from Jessie. South Asian representation was ROUGH.

[@goldenhourss]

same. i hate how they portrayed asians in general as ugly, inferior people or just the comic relief within cartoons or movies. as if we're not intelligent, rich in culture and languages. I hate it. And since people grow up with that shit when they meet real asians they expect us to behave or talk with those thick accents which hello???? we do not have lol

[@Billdean25]

​@@goldenhourssZayn Malik is Pakistani

[@aiswaryabersan7983]

@@Billdean25 he is white passing so he is accepted in the group

[@mcchilde2903]

​@@aiswaryabersan7983no he's not. He looks properly pakistani.

[@LEVI-369]

as an Indian racism on Indians on instagram is so causal, its like taking breakfast everyday

[@aeriwsa]

ong fr, and the saddest part is that they dont even see anything wrong with it

[@LEVI-369]

@@aeriwsa fr recently there was a Train accident in India where 3 trains Collide each other I saw this news on Insta and i saw a Comment "they are Overpopulated anyways" 💀and these People thinks they r Better Human beings

[@rg-md2gi]

Is there anywhere on the internet where it's not? I actually wanna know

[@LEVI-369]

@@rg-md2gi no everyone is racist to Everyone in every platform. Its the degree that matters, Insta comments feel like Warzone, reddit comments are not for those who have heart Issues, KZbin comments are much better in comparison LOL

[@rg-md2gi]

On twitter people are callin for death and there are so many ppl even in the comments to this vid where they are are being racist to indians. They have no empathy even after watching this vid. I dont have much hope left in yt or internet in general coz it doesnt seem its much different on any of the other sites. Is there?

[@MrKmas508]

Bruh Indian reputation has plummeted in the past year. It’s even worse now.

[@JoeSmith-eo7rc]

It’s fucking abysmal lol

[@axeldude7051]

I was just gonna say! Have you seen all those jokes about Indian street food? Its gotten so much worse

[@CheeseburgerEnjoyer]

@@axeldude7051I don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty sure this is basically just stereotyping on Indians who move to different countries, western ideologies and others think Indians are smelly and nerdy, which is pretty dumb imo. But it sucks in places such as the U.S or others because you just have to take the jokes. They’ll obviously make racist jokes to other races, but those races are also glorified in a sense, I could be biased but I don’t see that for Indians.

[@KRAFTPUNK]

Much much much worse. My feed on instagram hits me with videos from India all the time and 90 percent of the time the comments are almost all racist.

[@elementalshinobi5322]

​@@axeldude7051 bro this is not the entirety of our nation these are 1 percent occurrences that are being amplified

[@Smollusk76]

I remember that last year in my chemistry class, my teacher had an accent. I’m desi so I didn’t care, but all the “popular” kids in my class decided to make fun of her accent, talk during class, and just be overall terrible students. She’s so nice and she deserves everything, literally she cried 5 times during class last year. I don’t understand why she takes all these kids harassment and doesn’t report them when she heard them doing stuff like mocking her.

[@karen5916]

That’s horrible. I for one think Indian accents are super satisfying and sound pleasant to the ears.

[@toddfart6058]

i had an indian teacher last year in chemistry also, people always made fun of her

[@spiralsage]

idk if its justified, but the kids outside of the first world, get slapped the f outta them for acting up. There will be disrespect and mocking, like teens do, but to the degree american kids do it.

[@kokocarillo9931]

I had a substitute teacher in high school who was from India, he also had an accent. He was hired recently during that time. Most of the students, especially the popular ones, bullied him a lot. And I mean all sorts of different races, ethics groups, and nationalities bullied him. They said a lot of racist remarks, like, he was on the verge of tears. Some couple weeks afterwards, I heard from a teacher that he resigned, which explained why I didn’t see him anywhere in school. God, the fact that kids can bully adults for their identity, shows you how racist and fucked up our society still is. I hope he’s living a good life now, he should have never gone through that.

[@MelD-j7j]

Its funny how everyone now claims racism against them😒 Indians and Pakistani are some of the most racist people ever!! They'd rather not be seen as the same with other people.. they'd rather try to align with white people than shun racism when its not against them...many of y'all are hypocrites😅

[@snoopyr1953]

racism towards indians was not only accepted but encouraged during the whole t series vs pewdiepie war lol. It was insane how normalized it was and still is, happy to see that someone FINALLY made a video on it :)

[@RJRecords0]

That's why I'm going around hating on every white I see just love pissing them off

[@minamuse3965]

Indians are so racist against black people. Racism against black ppl is universal. Indians don’t fight for themselves against racism they’ve just sort of accepted and kept their head down which makes them more of a target.

[@Blakoss]

Wasn’t really racism, it was a subscription battle between am independent youtuber and a massive corporation

[@Liztastaney7]

@@Blakoss it was incredibly racist.

[@Blakoss]

@@Liztastaney7 how so? No one wanted to see a corporation overtake the worlds most famous youtuber at the time

[@lucid7400]

As a black dude ive always noticed this. Recently hate towards Indians and desi south Asian culture as a whole has just been normalized

[@handsofstone2445]

Like fr , they treat indians like slaves but indians can be really chill

[@talos4937]

@@handsofstone2445 and racist

[@NamelyGiseamo]

​@@talos4937you treat a whole group like lower breed and then term them racist when they turn protective?

[@iamcuttlefish]

@@talos4937anyone can be racist

[@ARS-fn6px]

And then turn around and buy our hair, do yoga mediation, wear nose piercings and even talk about our holy scriptures and philosophy and adopt them (without knowing sometimes).

[@Mothxcat]

The recent comments are just proving this video’s point

[@Speedofdark339]

And IG reels to, it's crazy on there 💀.

[@rg-md2gi]

​@@Speedofdark339 people literally bring up indians even when its got nothing to do with indians there like wtf is happening?

[@Speedofdark339]

@@rg-md2gi people need some group of people to feel superior to.

[@akshayndharganesh6891]

​@@rg-md2giExactly dude

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

What?

[@poliquitit]

Haven’t watched the video yet. But, in my personal experience, this isn’t limited to online spaces. I’m not Indian-I’m black-but my best friend growing up and to this day is an Indian man. He was born in Calcutta, adopted as an infant, and raised in the United States. As kids, he used to try and distance himself from his Indian identity, something he’s only relatively recently grown out of as we’ve matured into men. When I asked him why he felt the need to conduct himself in that manner, his answers almost always came down to the way people treated him once they found out. Racism against Indians is, for some reason, extremely casual-and shockingly normalized. Just a few months ago, I’d befriended a Japanese exchange student at my university as we quickly bonded over our shared passion for watching and playing American football. One day after training together, we sat down on the turf and started discussing the differences between American and Japanese culture. Somehow, we came to the topic of India-and this dude (who I’d only known for a couple of weeks at that point), became offended at my referring to them as “Asians”. He started a rant about how Indian people were, in fact, not “real Asians” and laid out for me all the reasons why he thought they were inferior to him. I was sitting there genuinely dumbfounded at how a person of color could be THAT vitriolic and hold such a demented level of racist beliefs. I excused myself, said goodbye, and never hit that dude up again. In my head I thought, if he’s that fired up about Indians, I don’t want to hear what he really has to say about black people. Removed him from my life as quickly as he’d come into it. That was the most extreme example I’d ever seen of racism toward Indians, but not the only one. I try and verbally defend them and call out prejudice whenever an instance like that arises-but am always made out to look like I’m strange for it, as if Indian people aren’t worth defending.

[@Vivek_kumar0412]

Just today someone said to me from Arab world you are Indian you are not human and I was like 😂

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Damn, thats actually sad to hear. I am indian and japan is one of the few countries where I was treated like a human being. Ofc japanese ppl are really polite so i had no what was actually going on in their head.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

@@nihilismful I think some of it has to do with western media. Western media always shows africa as this poor desert village with starving children. Thats what the whole world views it as.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

@@nihilismful No, I think its just japanese culture in general. I know quite a few indian ppl who live in japan and don't face racism. I think japanese ppl also have superiority complex but they are too polite to say it out loud.

[@henrylangham6428]

ima bout to saying someting ignorant about the people you said in your comment Japanese dont think they are white, poc think Japanese are white and therefore they are evil white devils who are vile white supremacists and they need to be attacked for their crimes against black people the slogan stop asian hate had to be stopped being used after reviewing data pre covid and during covid that most hate crimes against asians were committed by pocs, many of them being the people you mentioned about saying something ignorant about x people. these attacks also happened in the anti racist racist democrat states like Cali/NY and some of them were black supremacist conspiracy theoriests who believe that black people have super powers and gain powers from the sun@@nihilismful

[@arunannow]

Hey thanks for having me be a part of this, I appreciate it!

[@PastelOddity]

I’m black, and my grandmother brought me fried tilapia and potato wedges she made to school one day when I was in fifth grade. It was totally normal food-and my grandma was sitting RIGHT THERE-and people still made fun of me for bringing “black” food.

[@lunammoon8503]

jealousy. nothing but jealousy

[@hwasassidechick]

girl they wish their food wasn't so bland

[@katet8639]

racist and logic never go hand in hand.

[@ZZ-qy5mv]

That sound hella good. I'm telling you, racists just miss out on good stuff.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

They were just offended your grandma used a teaspoon of seasoning, lol. 😂😂

[@Diya-lz2dy]

The “Stop Asian Hate” also applies to Indians because we are South Asians so still Asian.

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

No it doesn't. Everyone knows "Stop Asian Hate" is about East Asians, stop trying to ride their coat tails poojeet.

[@Diya-lz2dy]

@@Spacemonkeymojo I don’t care

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

@@Diya-lz2dy Poopjeet

[@Diya-lz2dy]

@ That’s not even my name. Quit acting foolish

[@momdonttouchthatsock]

​​@@Spacemonkeymojo stop asian hate includes every country in Asia, and guess what? India is in Asia.

[@BrandiG31]

I'm white but growing up, all my closest neighbors were Indian. At school once, someone was making fun of my friend because her dad owned and cooked for an Indian restaurant, and I remember asking my teacher "Why is it bad to own a business?" I obviously understand the context now, but I still find it just as ridiculous for someone to bully a kid because their dad is a successful & hardworking member of society...

[@Lee-fx7bd]

They were just jealous that their white food doesn't have any taste 😔😔😔

[@Womendeservebetter1]

Damn women in facebook are not like that

[@bitchesgonbebitchesluvthemhoes]

omg aww you’re so sweet.

[@weirdasff]

I don't understand the context, can you explain

[@crystal0-025]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@arushijangid921]

Another thing I find crazy tho is that whenever an attractive brown person goes viral or people mention how Indian people are attractive people always say that “not every Indian person looks like that” or “he or she is just a small percentage the average Indian doesn’t look like that.” It’s like they have to find an excuse to affirm to themselves that brown people just aren’t attractive. Idk if it’s just me but when any other attractive poc person goes viral for their looks their comment sections don’t look like that.

[@Tama-zephyrwindlass]

They use that tactic on black people as well and it evolved to be used on people of south asian descent as well. The racism is crazy family 😂

[@Tama-zephyrwindlass]

It absolutely does happen on other poc. Especially Native Americans and African Americans

[@SimonRiley-t6j]

They are correct .... Actually small percentage of people are attractive in India ......majority people look like shit ....

[@yntao]

brown people are not a small percentage who tf thinks that? lmao majority will always be brown in india

[@RabiyaRavenclaw]

It's actually very true, Westerners have Stereotype of Indians bring the "ugliest" race, so whenever they see a decent looking one, or even an attractive one, they go in a state of shock and disbelief, hence why bringing all sorts of excuse and mental gymnastics. They always attribute the attractive looking Indians to be a small percentage, hinting that the majority of the population is Ugly. Blatant and Internalized Racism.

[@coco_rthritis6462]

It's crazy to me how the population of India is a little over 1 billion yet every part of India is just stereotyped into one culture. In reality there are 28 states that make up India with there own unique cultures. Even as a whole, India is a beautiful country in multiple ways (especially the food and music). Obviously it has its problems; the pollution, the insane population density, the corruption, the caste system, ect. But I'm from the US, so I've had to learn to appreciate the good that's in a country.

[@iamjustkiwi]

Same thing with Africa too, it's a huge place with extreme variety, but people act like it's a (usually very offensive) monoculture. I usually point out how we don't see that same behavior towards European folks where they get to be from their tiny individual countries that are usually way smaller than the states within India or the countries in Africa. People would think it was ridiculous to say Germans, French, and Ukrainians are all the same but that's what we do for other parts of the world.

[@Xxth3_murder5cenexX]

​@@iamjustkiwi you're so right it hurts. im from latin america (mexico to be precise) and there's so many different countries here with their own cuisine, indigenous languages, accents and all around culture that seeing them all lumped up as "basically the same shit" pisses me off to no end. even within my own country there's so much variety but since most of us aren't fully white i guess our culture has no value /sarcasm

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

The caste system has been banned since decades. Ofc it still may exist in some rural areas, but ppl make it a bigger deal than it is.

[@brascoperryjoe6425]

​@@iamjustkiwiIndia is Country with multi-faceted culture, Africa is a continent with different countries.Both are d unique in its oen way. I think this thinking comes from ignorance. Specially the school-system in North America is not good, below average, and likely this behaviour and thinking stems from that.

[@MK-hh1vo]

​@@TheBakuganmaster99As an American on the outside looking in, the caste system is the 1st thing I recognize as Indian culture. It may be "officially" banned but its principles are firmly embedded into the modern Indian way of life and thinking. As in America, I understand that in India paler skin is better and darker skin is considered "less than, not as worthy, not as clean". The Indian media exhibits this view on a regular basis, which is ironic given how the rest of the world sees Indians as a monolith, skin shade aside.

[@Birookeen_Bhamiya]

Yeah brother, I'm from India and its like its all different form "social class" to 'social class '. I was born and brought up in a very good society, where I was taught to be more clean, maintain my hygiene, good manners for others, good behaviour and obviously the knowledge for competing in this world. I tried my best to get the good things. JEE is an engineering exam which is considered to be the 2nd hardest exam in Asia as well as 3rd (maybe) in world. I ranked myself in 168th rank surpassing more than 2million competitors. I studied in IIT which is the best engineering college you can get in India. Then after completing my degree. I recently went to Vienna (Austria) in a vacation. They treated me like I was a tribal guy who knows nothing. I feel hurt. At the end of the day, I'm just a Human. I tried my best to be a good person and do all good things that could possibly be done by me. And because of Indias huge population even 20% of shite is like 160million people and their wrong doing becomes famous.. I get stereotyped as their category. What else can I do, I can't even say I'm born in the worst country. Atleast India is way better than several dictator and middle east war countries. I'm not in a war. I'm in a democracy. Even though India is not the best place to be born; while considering countries like USA, England and Japan, but still it's not the worse.

[@Birookeen_Bhamiya]

10%*

[@JarlBalgruff_]

I'm sorry you had to go through that. In my experience it was the total opposite. Back in India, I was an "OC" caste and people will find that out from my accent and make fun of me or single me out for bullying. When I was applying for colleges, they asked for my caste (I know why they have to do those things) but I remember being very hurt and alone because even my own citizens were being blatantly racist. When I moved to Denmark, I've experienced none of that. Even when I did experience racism, it was nothing compared to the severe ostracizing and bullying I experienced in India. I'm just sad that we are ostracised wherever we go. I hope you feel better now.

[@kookystae]

saji youre so cool i literally cant

[@dorkchops]

hey don’t say that u literally *can*

[@kookystae]

@@dorkchops omg ty ty I can 🫶🫶🫶

[@lukaluukaa]

I love saji hes pretty awesome

[@trash_bender420]

If u can't, then don't don't. Did done diddly do it. Dang

[@WASletter]

Proof that to Gen Z, anti racist activism = cool

[@arbbr9397]

I’ve noticed racism against Indians growing so much lately glad someone’s made a video

[@idontwantahandle10]

Because poos are slithering into everyone else's countries

[@sussyricky]

Why you indians act so superior all over the internet?

[@soyuzinstrumentales7605]

Honestly only male indians deserve the racism, I am against the racism because it also affect indian woman and that is just bonkers

[@soyuzinstrumentales7605]

In my Experience most Indian guys are so fucking ankward and mostly covered In toxic masculinity, this is where I will disagree with more feminists, on the fact that everyone has right to remove their toxicity for the betterment of society.

[@20SG20]

Indian here, i noticed it too but thought i was overestimating it. Thinking that i am seeing too much of it when it is actually too much.

[@ajaydhawale9380]

"As an Indian, I found this funny" has entered the chat.

[@Gyati]

And then the guy behind the screen is this 🧒🏻

[@user-ayiy824jbd]

@Jack-fd3glmost indians arent christian. christianity is not the answer to everything, just one of many belief systems. not the right one, as there is no one corrext religion.

[@sriya.s09]

nah this PISSES me off so much

[@af2954]

@@sriya.s09 can't wait for the day where Indians are not foaming at the mouth to make a mockery of their own culture so white people can tolerate them

[@neoneyes3913]

@@ajaydhawale9380 helo sar plese click link for free credit card okay sar thank you plese

[@ChronicallyConfused]

I'm white, I got into a relationship with an Indian guy recently and this has truly made me realise so much about the racism toward Indian. Ty for making us more aware of it!

[@AttiaMokbel]

Does he like your Bobs and Vagene

[@indiafirst3676]

​@@AttiaMokbel His name wasn't Mohammad and her name wasn't Aisha 🐖 56/6

[@marcbabineau6001]

Does he smell

[@indiafirst3676]

@@marcbabineau6001 Not everyone is pedo like you to randomly smell people

[@aaphroditestears]

@@marcbabineau6001you definitely do

[@8eight104]

Respect to India and it's culture. As a Korean, I actually hate seeing other Asian cultures get passed over or outright mocked. I hope that changes soon.

[@StyleswithCourtney]

Its mostly because its new and different Indian culture is pretty cool once people learn about it

[@erenjaeger1738]

Most are racist or xenophobic XD

[@vinvyl957]

Once Indian culture fits into an aesthetic like how they did it for Japanese, Thai, Korean and other cultures then it’ll probably stop I guess

[@soyuzinstrumentales7605]

Indian culture is so misogynistic, there is a reason why we americans see indians as inferiors, but something that I really wish happened is that we all americans helped indian women into a peaceful liberación, all of this before indian women become prideful and go to hell as their men do, we can save India without toxicity, giving every indian a true purpose of life instead of the toxic patriarchical lifestyle that indian women have to deal with.

[@masterb0ss]

7:23 bro it's an offence to show incorrect map? kashmir ?

[@ssorayaya]

the online racism against indians make me so frustrated. nobody seems to acknowledge it, and it's fucking everywhere and it makes me sad

[@kaay_baiiii]

Like how you mainland Indians are casually racist towards us Northeast Indians? Give me a break

[@youknowwhoiam6057]

Yeah. Racism against certain race is normalized in these days, especially when it comes to men of color.

[@ytlokop]

​@@kaay_baiiii yes racism inside india against other Indians exists, but stop using that as a way to shut someone else up who's talking about valid problems, you don't know this person- they could be south Indian, they could even be northeast Indian themselves. It is absolutely wild how you yourself being an indian are trying to stop people talking about racism AGAINST INDIANS. Wth man?

[@ytlokop]

​@bbq925 hey. Let's not. This vid is about racism in india, and you resort to being racist yourself but towards another group? Let's not boil this down to just 'violence' please, all of us know it's not just that.

[@ytlokop]

@bbq925 how about no. This video is literally about stereotyping south asia and you turn around and do it to everyone else that is in south asia? Islam itself is not violent, just because you see like 5 terrorists that are Muslims doesn't mean the entire population is. Christians regularly bomb synagogues in the US (which we don't hear about) but christianity itself is built on being kind to one another

[@nataliee5236]

As someone from Canada, a country that is home to many Indian immigrants and international students, THANK YOU for this video. The casual racism I see online and not so casual irl racism towards them is appalling.

[@egomaniac1209]

And THANK YOU for having brain cells and being kind enough to call bs and hateful narrative for what it is, something that is very uncommon and refreshing to see. Doesn't help when we have so many self loathing people with the "pick me" energy within our own community, but certainly does when kind foreigners like yourselves speak up about the problem instead of being it.

[@BooksToAshes]

I’ve always noticed the racism towards Indians as a Canadian my whole life but recently it’s been horrible how much of it I see online. Any video I see that’s located in Canadian tourist spots or Toronto is just people being openly racist. It’s disgusting

[@Womendeservebetter1]

Damn women in facebook are not like that

[@theab3957]

​@@BooksToAshesReally? Because I've been around Indian people in Canada all my life, and it tends to be only bad people who are racist towards them. Maybe you should stop hanging around bad people, tbf.

[@teryakisoda]

*most* brampton hate is very thinly disguised racism against indians and people just let it slide ??? crAzy

[@DeepakSharma-rb5bp]

I feel in general people are racist towards dark skin people mostly towards black and south Asians. And I don’t think western world is that racist towards oriental Asians as they come with light skin. Unfortunately We South Asians are targetted by East Asians or south East Asians along with Caucasians. Be it our food, skin colour, our clothes and everything in between. I don’t know why are we hated so much. 😢

[@makizenin1840]

I completely agree with you! It has actually very less to do with the indian or black culture more to do with their skin color. And yes you're right. East Asians doesn't get much hate in western countries since they're all light skinned and their culture is well exposed to the west. Throughout history darker skin people were hated just for existing while lighter skin people were praised for their skin color. And these racist people try so hard to justify the racism against indians!!

[@ArkabrataDattaRoyChowdhury11]

If you're so proud of your skin why did you up the brightness and use a filter?

[@ajuliet1899]

People are actually scared of being racist towards blacks because they are afraid it will cause an outrage or get them fired. They target Indians because they don't stand up for themselves and let it slide so racism towards Indians seems like a normal thing now.

[@egomaniac1209]

@@ArkabrataDattaRoyChowdhury11Leave it to a Bengali to ruin the food and the mood, always, yuck

[@susanrichardson631]

​@@ArkabrataDattaRoyChowdhury11if you are a white man why are you trying to insult him even further.... Also dark skin can look lighter or darker depending on the lighting and it doesn't have to be a damn filter.

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

As an Indian more concerning thing for me is not racism, but being termed as South Asian when anything good happens (RRR was called a South Asian film) and Indian when something bad happens. West is robbing us of our national identity by terming us as South Asian.

[@Randompersononyoutube9]

THIS.

[@amritaparida3992]

This comment needs to be pinned!

[@squ34ky]

Just be happy they didn't call "RRR" a Bollywood film..

[@xoxoxovaivaivai]

I agree that's effed up.

[@meatsaxs5203]

DO NOTTT REDEEEEEM

[@kazikool69]

Im half pakistani and the desi racism is so unrestrained 😭like people would put on an indian accent and people would think its ok 😥

[@m4n4h1l]

full pakistani here and yes it’s so weird 😭😭 “you’re not indian though” YEAH BY LIKE 70 YEARS

[@gotemleanin4463]

People also have to stop with the Pakistani vs indian shit, it's so corny

[@m4n4h1l]

@@Pratt11 all love for my fellow desis❤️❤️ but i like being pakistani!

[@m4n4h1l]

@@gotemleanin4463 unless it's cricket 🤭

[@meemoo7]

@@gotemleanin4463fr its so annoying and cringe

[@ytrg1]

The casual racism online, even in "liberal" spaces like Reddit, is pretty baffling. What's worse is that when it's pointed out they try to convince that it's "just a joke". Nice job talking about this issue Saji

[@yama_no_ou]

Reddit and 4chan are the worst. But what else can you expect from these shit platforms.

[@haruzanfuucha]

Reddit has always been a racist cesspool and it is heavily biased towards the nerdy American white male libertarian perspective.

[@abhinandb6824]

Reddit is racist cesspool and the self loathing indians make it hard to call out how normalized racism against indians is.

[@t.7124]

But I still think it is important to call out toxic cultural traits. People are able to criticise Christian Conservative Americans, but India has an incredibly conservative, deeply religious, xenophobic and nationalistic culture that may contribute to how misogynistic the men are, and ultimately appears as the butt end of many jokes. It's interesting how this video never once mentions Hindutva and its open and blatant admiration and inspiration from Italian Fascism, and how India's government and population areopenly supportive of them... I want to learn more about the Indian subcontinent and its related countries, but we have to be more nuanced at approaching why these jokes are directed towards this specific group of people. You want to unpack stereotypes and not just label everyone that points out misogyny as racist. I'm a minority myself, but I can call out black supremacist cults like the Nation of Islam despite how justified a response to racism it may at first appear to be.

[@jhsemoxitha3821]

Sorry to break it down to you. Why indians gets much hate : 1. Internalized self hatred 2. Embarrassed of their own traditions 3. Never standing up and accepting insults 4. Putting themselves below white people 5. Trying to copy white people 6. Hate for other countries 7. Ego. Yes it's weird ,they have hate for themselves but also full of themselves. 8. It is true their TV serieses and movies are weird but they never try to improve 9. The creeps and scammers are real, but they never try to better themselves or do something for the youth 10. Lack of self respect 11. Lack of respect for women 12. A lot of them are racists. Towards themselves, towards other countries 13. No strong community 14. Internal conflict

[@saikonori]

Damn this is the 1st video about Indian where I saw creators spoken about how diverse india is and being Indian is, mentioning North east states👏

[@aayushattri3238]

They are so underrepresented india needs to teach the youth more about the sister states

[@shannond1511]

I have literally the opposite problem, I’m Native American and there are literally ppl that when they ask “what are you?” And I slightly roll my eyes and say,”Native American,” they didn’t know what I meant and I was forced to say “Indian” to get my message across. But, that didn’t end it, they then asked “feather or dot?” And I said full blown rolling my eyes,” feather,‘begrudgingly. I couldn’t help but add,”btw there’s only one type of Indian, the ppl from India. Isn’t our fault Christopher Columbus didn’t know where his dumb *ss was and nobody has ever cared enough to stop straight up calling us the wrong thing even tho it’s well know, tho this day hardly anyone says anything. Thanks for letting me rant

[@Michelle-rdz17]

Exactly we’re NATIVE Americans lol… all these other people especially the white ones making fun of “foreigners” should go back to where their people are from smh.💀

[@VARMOT123]

Total respect to native folks .thanks for allowing indian people to live there

[@44H44]

I just don't answer when they say that especially when they call me Indian I will answer them with no I'm native or indigenous and if they don't know what it is I might tell them or will just stop as thats tiring lol

[@AKu-xs5vg]

Yea, it's very telling how whites get their panties in a bunch when Latinos refer to themselves as "Hispanic" or "Latino" because those terms came from europe and "Latinos isn't a race" for whatever stupid reason they make up meanwhile they call actual American people "Indian"

[@rehan2118]

I am Indian from UK and I would love to meet those Americans that ask "feather or dot"

[@tawhidddd]

BEEN WAITING ON THIS!! the anti desi racism is SO rampant and its so saddening

[@jellybeanjelly2963]

This needs more views!!! I'm Mexican and I've always hated how people made fun of indians online and irl. I always felt like I was being too sensitive for being annoyed by these jokes but now I know that my gut was right. I'll make sure to correct people on it from now on!

[@springheeljak145]

You are being too sensitive

[@huskylluvr]

idk if you read replies but. I'm sorry you got those other two comments when you were just trying to be empathetic.

[@Ghostrident]

​@@huskylluvryeah the above two guys are defending their racism throughout the comment section

[@angelelelelalalalalelae]

@@huskylluvr literally like they really thought they did a number on op

[@304leo]

not those two replies thinking they did something 💀💀

[@ZenoEditz.]

As an Indian, thank you for making a video about this 😭🙏

[@aashmitsingh3628]

And then there's enablers saying shit like "I'm an indian and i dont think this is racist"

[@markaragnos1796]

Those guys are the most annoying. And usually they’ll follow some other enabling content creators like Farzy.

[@ITZ_ONLY_YOUR_HIMANSHU]

​@@markaragnos1796true

[@shawnthomas6492]

@@markaragnos1796idk I think ppl who watch farzy relate to his skits because some of them are realistic to some Indians. Most of his skits are about him pretending to be an Indian dad being strict towards his normal Indian son

[@RheaSinha-s3c]

@ndfiboefbye either that or NRIs trying to kiss up to westerners

[@truth.LANTERN]

There's so many Indians that supported the Apu from Simpsons character, because they would think that acting like you don't care about one-dimensional stereotypes would make you cool and accepted. I feel like other races are allowed to be individuals more or less but for Indians we are so heavily held to our stereotypes and other Indians don't really do anything to push back against it, our easy going nature has be a negative in this regard and has been taken advantage of.

[@Kadiatuuu]

As a black person I feel very sorry for all Indians that have to go through so much racism. You guys are a beautiful group of people, never let anyone tell you otherwise. Much love 💕🙏🏿

[@trevscott2309]

Yet they are the most colorist group on earth, even establishing an entire caste system that directly correlated with skin tone. They'd treat your Black ass like dirt compared to a White person, I've seen it countless times in person. When will you learn to put your community first instead of caping for a group of people that don't even like you? Black folks have to start putting themselves as top priority instead of trying to make friends.

[@celvinlelith]

@kadiatukallon3542 You're a Gem of a human being bro🙏🏾!

[@ThatsSoNav]

❤🙏

[@Skizzo___21]

​@@trevscott2309colorism exist , i agree , but caste system doesn't in large scale, the fact is that the ones who used to get harrassed ones are in majority

[@kritikaverma-ic2ji]

THIS. Like us hindus get harassed and constantly told to change our religion by muslims (they are minority so they get advantages) and we cannot talk anything back and defend ourselves because it will not be 'secularism'@@Skizzo___21

[@wrathava]

I have fair skin. I was once mistaken as a greek by an old cleaning white lady. The lady was very nice and caring, she always used to casually greet some students in the elevator and campus residence area. I always remember the shock on her face when i told her i am indian, not greek. No casual greetings afterwards from that point on by her. This is from sydney, Australia btw.

[@michaeljosephjackson2364]

Same here I got mistook as spanish

[@Star17Platinum17]

The lady then died💀

[@goodluckwiththatonelol]

@@TheRealSkulldozer bro's spending his time trying to troll a whole group of people he doesn't belong to. I don't think we're the ones who are on suicide watch kek, you are a miserable person lmao

[@mika.y598]

Even I faced racism in Malaysia as a northeast indian This lady asked me where I'm from when I replied , " India " and she was shocked she was saying indians are not this good looking aren't all indians dark skin aren't all indians look the same I was so pissed by her statement I just ignored her

[@kennethkilian1971]

​@@costilla1212 finally found one, it was getting harder to spot the racists inthis comment section. What up brother

[@Sudderdwn]

Came here to read racist comments and was not disappointed

[@xa_nder]

i’m not even indian but i’m here because i know none of these dudes can argue worth shit

[@sh-tz2xs]

​@@xa_nderfor someone who's "not Indian"😂 u sure like to defend india and Indians under every comment, you're a paj33t Indian who's ashamed of being one and that's why u changed your name to "xander" and pretending to be Hispanic 😂 , all of u paj33t males are changing your names but i understand o would be ashamed of being an Ind1an too like u if i was one ,paj33t 😂

[@Abdo12qwop]

@@xa_nder The Indians?

[@xa_nder]

@@Abdo12qwop the dumbass pro racist, loudly ignorant comments. none of them can reply with anything beyond anecdotal and broad sweeping generalizations that could be applied to anyone.

[@smithsunleashed]

@@Abdo12qwopshut up

[@HumbleBovine]

"You know how many kinds of white people there are--Irish, Italian, Polish, Greek, German, French! The list unfortunately goes on forever" gotta be one of the most underrated lines in this video

[@kendal_lemon]

the “unfortunately” got me lmao

[@Joyful_Smiles]

White means Anglo-Saxon. Those groups are not white but are tolerated and the majority of them are on the bottom of the ws hierarchy. They rarely talk about the abuse of racism. But recently, Eastern Europeans and Southern Europeans are starting to talk about racism and the effects of white supremacy. It will be interesting to see if the Latin Europeans will ever join the discussion or if they are too deep in. I think once the Latin Europeans join in we all over the world will see a new context of racism and colorism: how it started in the Brits and how it spread.

[@asinglebraincell6584]

@@Joyful_Smiles This would be so complicated. Like, there is so much to unpack and it would get LOOPY pretty quick, but just a little list of things that could be included: 1. The Spanish and Portuguese inventing racism to enslave converts to christianity 2. Italian authors inventing early forms of racial thinking or genetic determinism to discriminate other Italians [namely to put down the Sicilians] 3. The French and other nations implementing policies that suppress regional and minority languages to the point of near extinction [Occitan, etc] 4. The widespread acceptance of caricatures of Italian and other southern European people 5. The hypocrisy of distinguishing southern europeans from other europeans as the basis for discrimination while also absorbing their history to create a false narrative of a unified white european identity that white supremists later use to self mythologize 6. The way nationalism has shaped our understanding of these countries internationally is also super weird, like Neapolitan music and food for instance are stereotypically Italian around the world, but stereotypically Neapolitan within Italy, etc. It's a strange way to market culture and I guess gives us an insight into the commercialization and commodification of cultural expression in countries of relatively wealthy positions 7. In some nations you can literally see the creation of a national identity and read about people sort of cobbled together a more cohesive national identity out of loose, already existing ideas and reinforced it through the teaching of a standardized language. There's a lot more and it's all weird AF I haven't even mentioned like the Balkans, or how Rome has a massive history outside of Europe,

[@phoebesekine4783]

@@kendal_lemonit was unnecessary tbh

[@boredshrimp9425]

​@@phoebesekine4783casual racism

[@ForeignManinaForeignLand]

Bro you set the bar high for me with this one 😮‍💨 lemme get to work so I could follow up. Excellent work, Saji 💪🏾

[@si3916]

RIGHT!! - also i love your channel!!!

[@Pratt11]

​@johannaweichsel6307Bros mad over a non existent issue 💀

[@heythankstommy]

​@@Pratt11fmiafl literally implied that vaush and keffals are pedophiles, completely baseless, also they bully shark for no good reason

[@kkuuuuaa]

Big body foreign!!

[@martinthemarine920]

@johannaweichsel6307cool racism on a video about how racism is bad

[@bobettepancakes]

Thanks for talking about PewDiePie. I've never liked him, but I remember during the t series era if you even questioned whether the song was racist you would be attacked and spat on and cancelled for daring to question whether PewDiePie wasn't an amazing person. He got away with so much stuff and you weren't allowed to criticise him for anything. I remember being a kid and I have Asperger's syndrome, I tried watching some of his videos and in one he made a joke about autism. I get it's just a joke, but as a newly diagnosed child who was also being bullied for being "weird" and "different", it hurt, and I felt ashamed for being hurt because I knew that if I commented something I would be called sensitive or probably the r word. I don't think it's cancel culture to criticise someone; I'm not calling for PewDiePie and other creators to be cancelled, but I do think they should take accountability, and not making racist and ableist jokes that do affect people isn't "woke". It's called being a decent person, and I think if someone doesn't understand that then they shouldn't be hailed as a good creator and have the platform that they do.

[@cantthinkofaname5046]

Yeah definitely. I liked Pewdiepie at the time, but that was only because the racist part sort of went over my head. I was for more anti corporate messaging, I didn’t want the biggest creator to be a corporation, to the point where the racism against indian people went over my head

[@SapphireSeahorse494]

I remember middle school classmates singing that song and then in the next breath praising Ben Shapiro. I feel like that's not a coincidence. side note, idk if you were aware but aspergers syndrome is an outdated and harmful term that comes from n*zis.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

I do think it could be called "woke", since being a decent person is being called "woke" by assholes.

[@rewrewrewrewr2674]

As an Indian, while I was dissapointed that some of pewdiepies fans turned a subscriber battle into a race issue. I believe that pewdiepie eventually owned up to the situation, as not only did he later go on to collab with an indian youtuber (a fun video where they tried snacks), but part of the reason why he ended the subscribe to pewdiepie meme was because people were turning it into a race issue.

[@lilygirllisa]

​@@rewrewrewrewr2674He left the racist music video up. He still gets money from it, he doesn't care.

[@Epikgaymer69wastaken]

I love how the whole west looks at asia as just Japan china and korea

[@Indonesianexterminator]

Because only those three are worth getting recognize. Other are just not worth because of inferiority

[@rattasticc]

@@IndonesianexterminatorTf you mean by that?

[@wilsonwade6361]

​@@rattasticcread his name and channel description lol. He's an obvious troll.

[@User-v3b1k]

America isn’t the whole west.

[@-Asmae_]

@@Indonesianexterminator so the only races you want to eradicate are these : Caucasians, Indonesians, Indians? that's very odd of you kpop citizen

[@Starsongzz]

I relate to so much of this as a dark-skinned black person. It’s like the darker you are, the more inherently dirty, violent, stupid, tribal, etc you are to people. It’s like they can’t see you in a present, neutral state. I relate soooo hard about seeing normal ass brown people on tv. The first time I saw a normal ass black woman who wasn’t, “too much,” a single mother, a criminal, a brown-nosing cop, a pimp’s hoę OR a domineering capitalist girl boss-I was blown away. She was a normal ass black girl with a normal ass life. Bonus points for giving us more personality traits than “ghetto.” It was amazing. I wish I could’ve seen it as a kid. Tbh I don’t really know how ghettos became synonymous with black people since I’m pretty sure it started off as a place where poor white people typically were. But I don’t think the word was even created with a specific race in mind so what’s up doc?🤨 Also, pew dew pie may or may not be a pos, I dunno the guy personally, but he’s definitely stoked flames time and time again. And I know for certain he knows what he’s doing. I’m sorry, but you don’t fumble the ball that many times over and over. Yet, for some reason it seems like an unpopular opinion to dislike him??? Why does he have such a squeaky clean reputation and why is he friends with people who, to my understanding, seem to be good people?? Why can white dudes skate on through, while stepping on every toe. Yet, dark people can just not bless someone when they sneeze and they have the full force of society on their backs. Like, anyone can be a pos, dark or light, but y’all can’t convince me it’s fair how we’re dealing out punishments. Someone is only “canceled” if you never hear from them again and they ain’t cashing anymore checks for the thing they were doing. So, a white guy being told “hey, cut that sh!t out” on Twitter, isn’t being canceled. Let’s be real. Also at 33:22 he’s getting at class consciousness vs false consciousness! It’s an important topic if anyone is interested in learning more.

[@Starsongzz]

@@nihilismful I’ll have to look into that! I’m a sociology minor, but I’m struggling to find classes that don’t cover only white European/American perspectives. That’s been like 99% of my education, and I desperately need to branch out before I lose it.

[@netraeng8676]

You honestly summarized all of this in such a succinct and excellent way!! I'm also studying sociology and other social studies and as a South-East Asian person the amount of anti-Indian, Colourism, anti-Blackness and other forms of racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and discrimination is truly horrifying too; thank you so much for the helping to educate some of the folks here in these comment sections! 🌱🌿🌸🌺

[@ribbonsinmyheart]

why do you guys always make it about yourself

[@Starsongzz]

@@nihilismful 💜🩷💜🩷 I’ll check it out!

[@Starsongzz]

@@ribbonsinmyheart nah yall made it about us when you dragged my ancestors from their homeland to build up a country we don’t get respect in. Don’t start none, won’t be none. Don’t seek out communities you want no part in. Find inner peace, I wish you well on your life journey.

[@pinkmenace2452]

holy shit that diss track by pewdiepie was insane. and i get he apparently doesn't do racist things anymore for content but im genuinely surprised he has been able to get awat with all of that without having to address it unlike other creators.

[@Tinfoilpain]

That video is still up... As long as it is we can safely say he's still doing racist shit.

[@uniquenewyork3325]

It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth because he, as a whole grown man, has targeted jewish, black, and indian people, and probably more groups aswell. His fan base at the time when he started acting that way was also full of young teens.

[@superfeel1275]

Yea true, I was young at that time, and that kind of stuff was seen as funny in my social circle. When I grew older it suddenly clicked like "damn wasnt pewdiepie like in his lates 20 when he did all the racist stuff". I think its far less excuseable the older you are.

[@HogSlopp]

hes so racist that no matter how hard he tries to mask it, it still slips out

[@j24030]

his content has been a direct pipeline into white supremacy for years, and he's been protected by his fellow creators and their support of him, that's how hes gotten away with it

[@leelapeelaa]

notice how almost all the comments are long paragraphs, because half of the people in this comment section watching this video r brown and we all have so much to say but no one to say it to lmao

[@vinvyl957]

REAL!!! forbid if you say this the other ethnicities will call you “dramatic” but if it happens to THEM ☠️, awareness videos, every corner. A lot of Indian ppl got stabbed for being Indian and vice versa for other south Asians, not a SINGLE tiktok talking about, if it was another ethnicity though? Yup, awareness tiktoks and “copy link to spread awareness” every scroll.

[@drcgon]

@@vinvyl957 really? did indians actually get stabbed? what video?

[@TheJosman]

I mean, there's many brown skinned peoples and Indians are treated the worst compared to Latinos, Middle Easterners and light-skin blacks

[@ethandevine8571]

white person here just to learn more and we are listening

[@leelapeelaa]

@@ethandevine8571 thank you ❤️

[@TheGamingArtistIdk_Official]

As an Indian 🇮🇳 (but I am also from another country) finally someone is talking about this 😭

[@avxway]

YES YES. this has to be talked about. Americans, Koreans, Japanese, Europeans are so blatantly, casually racist towards Indians, so much hatred towards Indians. It's insane!

[@JGburneraccount]

And Indians are racist to those groups...we are all racist to each other.

[@gabixoxo888]

​@@JGburneraccountif they are racist don't u expect us to be like that back too.

[@JGburneraccount]

@@gabixoxo888 no im not saying that, you miss the point. Im not saying its a loop of discrimination and this guy pulling out the white supremacy card and blaming all the problems on that is why the loop wont stop. its not white peoples fault that racisms exist, there are 0 laws or things that are in place in the west that would oppress Indians. every race will somehow be racists to other races that doesn't mean every person in that race will be. anyhow you aren't gonna listen to me so go ahead and use your buzz words and leave me alone.

[@tomasolsson6493]

How about you stay in your own country? Problem solved

[@commie_remover]

This video was made by a communist who is trying to recruit people into his cult, it's similiar to how Scientologists recruit their new candidates. They use your emotions for their own advantage. Please, don't fall for it for your own good, it will only make you sad and miserable.

[@sequoia7128]

instagram has a racism problem from their young demographic and it’s genuinely terrible

[@prophecybydefault4708]

Because its normalized as a joke but then people get used to it and become actual racists in the process.

[@rg-md2gi]

maybe the problem is the younger demographic?

[@v3nic3b1tch]

yep. even seen several older people saying nasty things on there too. they feel like they can get away with it, hiding behind their screens.

[@Agro50]

@@prophecybydefault4708 how so? they’re just jokes

[@pranit_2.0]

It has gone far beyond the joke/humour They think it's cool thing to do that! Instagram ruined young minds or even generation with this!

[@theniravpanchal]

I have never seen Chinese comedians making fun of other Chinese people in a bad way. Meanwhile our indian comedians can scarifice dignity of their own people for some validation of westerners.

[@yuli3186]

Just not much Chinese stand up comedians. We love math and physics more than you my brown friend🎉🎉🎉

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

Not like indians have dignity

[@muramiq]

​@@yuli3186 what was this supposed to mean? I apologize if its simply a issue with the phrasing but i genuinely cannot tell what this is supposed to mean

[@ezravldina3467]

Nope, it's because indian itself are racist towards each other, but most don't care

[@carloslindberg630]

So, we are going to pretend like Indians themselves aren't racist and prejudiced as well if not even more? Are we going to pretend that Indians don't treat darker-skinned people worse than light-skinned people?

[@axumbaloch]

I’ve been bullied for years because of my background, with my ethnicity often being used as a slur. then came the day of an event celebrating international traditional clothing. for the 1st time, I felt excited to wear my desi clothes n finally put them to use, so I tried to sign up. but the event was already full, n there was no room for me to participate, I wondered where the heck all these brown ppl from in my school, which was mostly Arab students. to my surprise, the same girls who had tormented me over the years were taking part in it. seeing them on stage, dancing to "Bole Chudiyan" in desi clothes, happily lip syncing n dancing, while they had made me feel ashamed of my identity all these years, was when I felt true rage for the 1st time.

[@worstmistakeyet]

You definetely gotta cover adin ross bro. as an indian some of his newer streams/content have just been blatantly racist. shame hes one of the bigger ones on the internet

[@pinchetii6555]

Isnt he that skinny white guy who sometimes hangs out with rappers?

[@lostross]

he did about 6 months ago iirc

[@beomgyujin]

@@pinchetii6555yes and he worships andrew tate

[@hwasassidechick]

@@beomgyujin i was about to google that guy but knowing he's an andrew tate fan tells me enough about him lmao, thanks

[@tonyjones154]

Adin is and has always been a joke. His audience seem like mostly kids or immature young adults

[@kindofanmol]

I'd say Pewdiepie played THE BIGGEST ROLE in normalising racism against Indians, hands down. He took isolated cases of we!rdos on the internet and generalised it with the entire population of a literal subcontinent. And the craziest thing is that neither him nor his other white KZbinr friends ever faced any consequences for it, despite arming an entire generation with vile racism and prejudice against Indians.

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

The creepy Indian guy hitting on Western women and the Indian scammer stereotype weren't invented by PewDiePie and they aren't "isolated incidents" either (which is why they've become stereotypes).

[@hoesmad4400]

@@RuthvenMurgatroyd yes. That happens. But you need to understand that India’s population is the second most in the world and is much closer to surpassing that of China. Therefore, the probability of you finding an Indian male harassing a woman would be much higher than you finding someone from other ethnicity due to population proportion difference.

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

@@hoesmad4400 Yeah, sure, I made this argument under a comment saying that Indians are more racist than anyone else. I was basically arguing that that's not shocking considering India has a lot of peple and is really diverse (the fact that it's as stable as it is is the reall shocking part). But still, I'm just saying that the stereotype exists for a reason, how society chooses to interpret that reason (the observable phenomenon) is sort of seperate but the stereotype exists and it was already in the public consciousness before PewDiePie. Why not argue that Kitboga also normalized racism against Indians?

[@vineethk133]

@@hoesmad4400 india is now the most populated country

[@Blakoss]

@@hoesmad4400solo female travellers can’t even walk in an Indian city street without being harassed and sexually assaulted. It’s not a stereotype, it’s a reality. This doesn’t happen in places with similar population densities like China or Se Asia

[@UhaveN0idea]

growing up, I never told people I was half Indian because of how derogatorily people spoke about Indians online in the early 2000s. Like, experiencing my other POC friends sharing parody songs making fun of Indian people from early youtube was mortifying. It made me fear expressing my culture because it was so oddly popular to reduce Indians to smelly curry people,,,anyway thank u for making this video i’m so glad someone’s finally talking about it.

[@Hjjkvy5zx]

Indians themselves are casually racist towards black people don’t play the victim card now

[@rohitanshukhilar1904]

I just walk away from people like those

[@tomasolsson6493]

You have to go back

[@erenjaeger1738]

Mf really said "POC"

[@vinvyl957]

@@erenjaeger1738why does it matter… what else would they call their friends that aren’t white ☠️

[@nadiatotten-juneidi2186]

Finallyyyyyy i see someone talking about this!! I see these sorts of comments so often on Instagram and it’s so disturbing how “edgy” and “normal” it is to be racist towards Indians??

[@Xcloneranger34]

Thanks if you are a non indian person talking about this

[@stellar__stevie]

instagram is just the worst. it's almost a time capsule from 2012 where people can say the most vulgar, blatantly racist, bigoted bs and get away with it. it's out-of-touch almost, so many of them are close-minded and delusional to fester in so much hate, especially towards the lgbtq+ folk as well

[@Bharat-v2c7j]

Thnku for atleast sympathising with us 1

[@leelapeelaa]

saw this video and literally teared up, finally being acknowledged is insane to me because NOBODY has ever agreed when i say mocking an indian accent or calling us “smelly and poor” is racist, i just get told the same “you’re being dramatic” bs. thank you for talking abt this bc i was abt to combust from how pissed ts makes me tbh

[@sushantsingh1820]

and when you actually return the favor, aka, stereotype back, you get banned!

[@danielazyan]

​@@sushantsingh1820cry about it

[@divineflu34567]

​@@sushantsingh1820truth like these social media pushes it

[@BNRAN.]

DO NOT REDEEM THE CAAAAARD

[@ruby-brawlstars8540]

​@@BNRAN.That was never funny.

[@tylorishere]

Most people think that Asia only has China and japan 💀

[@ahmad_rooney0]

Isn’t it tho 😀

[@Randze]

@@ahmad_rooney0 no

[@ivanh.1803]

That’s because East Asia is the only clean, orderly, wealthy, developed, prosperous, civilized region in Asia. Even Pyongyang manages to be cleaner than New Delhi despite being under brutal sanctions. The rest of Asia is either a complete shithole (South Asia), mired in religious fanaticism and war (West Asia), sparsely populated and irrelevant (Central Asia), or just poor (Southeast Asia).

[@karmachan1390]

@@ahmad_rooney0😂 average American

[@Oxy404]

Reference: trust me bro

[@otaku-chan4888]

One thing I've noticed as an Indian is that a lot of us have a lot of internalized and self-directed racism. Being told constantly that we're a developing country lagging behind the likes of USA and European countries, and being colonized by the British to boot, many Indians I've met idolize the west and even agree with the bad image Indians have because 'there's some truth to it'. We don't want to appear like snowflakes, so we shrug off the insults and roll with it. Videos like these really bring to light the fact that we need to step up and not confuse criticism with racism. India definitely has overcrowded cities, problems with poverty and pollution, and many cities and rivers are still too unsanitary. These are actual problems, and should be replied to while discussing which places in India are working on these issues and have seen improvement, along with which places need more work. However statements with no substance like 'Indians are dirty/smelly/backward' along with other generalizations like what Indian men are like / how Indian people look that obviously can't apply to every single person in this country of more than a billion people needs to be shut down. There's nothing productive that comes out of having a thick skin for racist insults. Speak up about it, my fellow Indians! We shouldn't be ashamed to be the subject of these insults, the people who are too shallow to know that Indians and our culture isn't a macrocosm should be the ones feeling ashamed.

[@XxAdelaide1994xX]

Proud of you :). Took the words out of my mouth. That's why content like this helps.

[@MelD-j7j]

Its funny how everyone now claims racism against them😒 Indians and Pakistani are some of the most racist people ever!! They'd rather not be seen as the same with other people.. they'd rather try to align with white people than shun racism when its not against them...many of y'all are hypocrites😅

[@Kianseven]

most of the racism against Indians are trolls, I have seen many Indians get offended and have some back and forth which eventually fuels the trolling. What concerns me more than caste in India is the online racism towards other states (Bihar,Bengal,SouthIndia etc.) as a joke which gives rise to this weird casual racism. There are more stereotypes among ourselves, how can we expect people from other countries to not do the same

[@jeremybeau8334]

With my indian friend and philipino friend in Mexico we criticize the enormous level of homlessness, drugadicts, mass shootings, student debt, legal slavery in prisons, NO healthcare and corporate food from the USA. All those kind of things that doesen't ocurre (at least not in that level) In neider Mexico, India or the Philipines.

[@julia2k8]

Indians are also extremely racist against others such as Pakistanis and Arabs

[@karstencarsten9964]

It doesn't justify the racism against Indians or anything but Indian accounts on Twitter are the most racist people I have ever seen.

[@dk57nde23]

im starting to notice a trend of people like you trying to down play racism against indians online. its always "but theyre racist too!", and theyre proof is always anecdotes with nothing to actually back it up

[@spectex304]

​@@dk57nde23 you do understand that metal cuts metal

[@anjalialam1431]

Clearly you hate Indians

[@ynat2198]

Receiving racism from East asians as a south asian was the funniest/saddest/ironic thing ever😅. The proximity to whiteness hierarchy is real no matter how many east asian youtubers/influencers tell you otherwise because the next breath they will celebrate aapi month by ONLY talking about east asia and MAYBE southeast asia. It sucks that even within this dialogue and with the rise and visibility of racism against east asians since covid, you would think we were more on the same page but racism toward SAs from EAs has gotten worse! Especially if you're darker skinned. Double for Arabs being racist af toward desis (yall know who you are and the way you and your families talk about us!). I have STORIES omg. That hurts more than yt ppl being racist. Ugh

[@Dinahhh]

It’s colourism, as well as featurism, for sure You got brown skin, hair ringlets, big nose & lips? Whoops, you’re not “Asian enough” somehow. Mind you, in the UK we don’t really encounter that sort of mindset as much (ime), since “Asian” here is synonymous with “South Asians”, although having said that, as American cultural influences become more prevalent, I’ve definitely seen *somewhat* of a shift towards East Asians being seen as the “stereotypical Asians”, so to speak

[@Dinahhh]

Oh and don’t even get me started on the Arab supremacists 💀 The way our people are treated in the Gulf countries is horrible. My mum told me how one of her uncles went to Dubai in the 70s as a construction worker, and after he became too ill to continue working he was sent back to Pakistan with no pay. IIRC he was bedridden afterwards.

[@vividxfriend]

I live in the USA, and the sheer amount of times I had to explain to people that South Asians and South East Asians are Asians is astounding 😭

[@c4tac133]

@@vividxfriendikr people be so ignorant

[@lscherehazade_317]

Lol SEA are racist/colorist against east and south asia, mideast, and africans. The causal 'n-word' enjoyers have also been popularized here. -a person from SEA who hates koreans/chinese

[@migoreng7789]

the whole thing with t series suddenly gaining so many subs and americans saying 'it has to be bots' as if number of internet users in india wasn't raising rapidly around that time... it felt really racist. i had arguments with people on reddit who were sooo sure it can't be real people subbing. like no shit there's a lot of people in india if they use youtube they will sub to channels like t series.

[@salemcrow5078]

I actually had no idea about people claiming that the rise in T-series subs had to be bots. Like, did people suddenly forget India is the second most populus country in the world?

[@berkeleyisonline160]

the whole "pewdiepie vs tseries" war felt rly off to me bc they wanted they a swedish white person (who has documented issues with racism) to "defeat" an Indian channel. like it wasn't just that they liked pewdiepie it was also that they hated that the most subscribed channel was from india. that whole era was so corny.

[@Creampuf1977]

I mean, when you've got 249 million subscribers, and your videos average only 100k, you probably have bots.

[@viatomic]

​​@@berkeleyisonline160wasn't the whole point of the "war" was actually corporation vs individual ytber? there was also yt music vs pewdiepie, jimmy fallon vs pewdiepie or whoever that was. it was around this era KZbin was obviously favoring corporate channels with better algorithm and monetization following the adpocalypse that cost individual youtubers. the context is gone after the "war" got REAL weird because tseries is an indian channel and it turned into "white man against indian channel" when ppl start making fun of india and stuff but it wasn't people hated biggest channel was from india

[@rahilmalhotra001]

@@Creampuf1977 1) Its because they upload a lot of videos in one day. 2) Its the same case with all these other corporate channels as well. Some videos will have like 100-200k videos while some videos will have millions of views. Thats how it works. 3) Subbotted channels are reviewed and removed by youtube anyways. 4) 249 Million is not really a big number considering there are 1.4 Billion Indians, with a big overseas diaspora and foreign nationals interested in Indian culture

[@aishax1850]

being south asian is not rlly trendy. as someone in school who is 50-50 nigerian and pakistan, ive realised that being considered black is deemed more “cool” than being asian and it rlly shows. for example, an egyptian boy in my class, who would frequently refer to me as ice spice when i wear my natural curly hair, told me once that he couldn’t even tell that i was mixed and that im lucky that i look black. while this boy who is 25-75 Nigerian to indian admitted to me that he wished he was more black. he would tell me that he hated no one could tell that he was part nigerian and would constantly talk about how much he loved fried chicken and watermelon to “seem black”. and my brother told me he identifies with being black because he doesn’t rlly identify with his asian side. when you’re mixed with black it seems like that’s all ppl see so you slowly start to identify with that side more and the reality that people have rlly bad misconceptions about “south Asians” doesn’t help..

[@aishax1850]

sorry if my grammar isn’t too good 😂

[@aishax1850]

definitely agree with trying to survive in school. like there’s so much shit ive led slide cus i felt like my voice was too quiet.

[@trash_bender420]

I know this is your experience, but trust me, once you get out of highschool, no one thinks black people are 'cool,' they think their art and style is cool and wanna emulate them but are still racist as fuck Btw I'm speaking as an American who's only ever lived in the USA

[@purplebanana9]

@@trash_bender420as a black person i have a lot to say about the thinking black people is cool thing. i think there is a level of acceptance coming in for black people (especially in youth) that is now not becoming necessarily acceptance, but unintentional micro aggressions. someone now (im 18 just graduated so kinda speaking on what i seen online and in school) will put on a blaccent to (in a sense) be cool. things like aave have had a huge rise in popularity online which at this point in society is the only thing influencing kids now. this has made it in a way, ‘cool’ to be black. the use of aave in itself though is a micro aggression. same thing with the increase of people in the USA wearing box braids. for centuries box braids were considered dirty and unkept, now other races almost fight for a reason to wear box braids. its an interesting time especially in youth. black isn’t necessarily bad to most youth, but their perception of black people can be racist in itself. not to say that blatant racism does not exist anymore, because i’ve experienced it, but it is so much less common to see in my age group i don’t even experience it in person. i almost always strictly experience racism online. if it is in person, its typically unintentional and internalized. either way, its racism. and i somewhat agree with the notion that being black is SOMEWHAT a “cool thing” nowadays. i sound old but lmaoo you get the gist

[@DustyMusician]

Yeah I wanna add on, I’m Nigerian and the commonality I’m seeing amongst your mixed Nigerian friends/relatives is that despite being Nigerian they’re performing Black Americanness, which can be read as performing a harmful stereotype bc they’re not Americans they’re Africans. Although not as destructive as when white people perform blackness, it is still not helpful for the advancement of black folk when Africans play into exaggerated caricatures either. And I think that’s a function of how antiblack racism has always wanted the culture of Black Americans without Black Americans themselves. So you’re touching on something when you say blackness is “cool,” but I would be mindful of the fact that colorism and fetishizing mixed ppl also plays into it. There may be a perception of you being an acceptable black person because you look like Ice Spice, who is very pale, or because you’re not a Black American. But there’s no guarantee a dark skinned Black American woman would receive the same treatment.

[@thomassinha5301]

Thanks for this video, man. Needed this.

[@kewpish]

finally saji solves racism we knew you could do it king

[@UnkownWonders]

Not my dyslexic ass misreading it as sanji 😭💀🤚

[@EquinoxKiwi]

@@UnkownWonders I'm not even dyslexic and I misread it as Sanji

[@UnkownWonders]

@@EquinoxKiwi lmaooo

[@tomasolsson6493]

How to solve racism: Stay in your own countries

[@UnkownWonders]

@@tomasolsson6493 said the racist

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

100%, I think a similar thing could be said for the sexism occuring online as well as homophobia. the internet makes you remember how little we have truly progressed instead of constantly praising ourselves for being "better".

[@killherqueen]

and what can we do about it! complain! that's right... 😃

[@liisaa287]

I agree! “Sus” humor has never sat right with me

[@lolcandyyy]

@@liisaa287Definitely 😠 pissed me tf off

[@isthiscereallife]

​@@killherqueenComplaining about how garbage white supremacy is will lead to actions to dismantle it. People are allowed to put words to feelings. It leads to action.

[@IndoManiac90]

Not really the same thing at all, sexism and homophobia is called out in most places unless you visit the most isolated places on the internet, however hatred towards indian men is almost always encouraged and not met with any backlash all over the internet

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

As an Iranian, I completely understand how Indians feel. Iranians and Indians are closely related ethnic groups and communities with widespread diaspora, and we face a lot of racism around the world, but it's often rarely talked about. Thank you for talking about this important subject.

[@doodooo2372]

Hey don’t feel obligated to reply but I was wondering what kind of racism do Iranians face? I am also from a similar background but white-passing

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

@@doodooo2372 I don't mind replying lol, we face racism because of post 9/11 racial tension, we're often mistaken for muslims and/or arabs (which we're neither of, we're overwhelmingly zoroastrians, christians, and/or atheists). And like Indians, people also mock our culture and accents, but it's not as focused since people don't notice Iranians in general culture as much as Indians. And while I do more or less identify as white by default because of my skin color, Iranians are diverse in their appearance, just like Indians. No group is a monolith. There are Iranians and Indians who are white, black, Chinese, Jewish, Christian, and so on.

[@doodooo2372]

@@Theonetrueerenyeager hmm I see thanks for clarifying. Personally I used to think that the type of bigotry that Iranians experience fell under islamophobia rather than racism, but I guess islamophobia is a type of racism. Race is made up doesn’t make much sense anyways, because I guess an Anglo-Saxon hijabi person would experience islamophobia and racism too. I also felt like the racism is more focused on erasure rather than hate as people would be confused for Arabs rather than mocked for their own culture. Not that that is any better, just observing

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

​@@doodooo2372Islamophobia is very much race based. That's why white muslims don't experience as much Islamophobia.

[@doodooo2372]

@@ambatuBUHSURK of course, agreed. Colourism and racism

[@CelloFerdinand]

This is similiar to people hating romani people because of stereotypes but this time its irl

[@CelloFerdinand]

Eventually it shifted to irish people and creating a dirty trraveller stereotype as a whole.

[@CelloFerdinand]

Theres a general theme going on where people are rationalizing their hatred towards an ethnic group because of stereotypes even going as far as to claim that theyre always been this way which is concerning

[@daikonbiss6357]

Its hella weird to say what race you wouldnt date but also kinda funny cuz who said indians want to date them anyway lol.

[@killherqueen]

i hope they aren't interested in me cause i ain't interested in them either 🎶

[@phuck8627]

That's funny, pretending Indians don't literally want to marry every woman on the planet.

[@slowcatsleeps]

Right it's mostly only black people too..I don't think they know about how colorist we get ...trust me they don't want you either oof 🙃

[@Yes-bn6yy]

@@slowcatsleepssolving casual racism with systematic racism, cool. Don’t divide anyone bro

[@kaiju9149]

@@Yes-bn6yy People are already divided bro, you can't divide them anymore than they are.

[@Autistic_Menace00]

White people will make fun of Indian food for having a lot of spices as if we didn’t spend like twenty years trying to get our hands on those spices and failing miserably

[@Autistic_Menace00]

@HecatesSubliminals depends on how long you measure us as still searching (we got sidetracked by genocide)

[@Catlily5]

The white people are having ancestral jealousy of what they had so hard a time obtaining? 😂

[@naysha323]

the brits colonized india for 200 yrs and their food is still blander than cardboard

[@redrosereindeer]

@@naysha323 fr

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

@@naysha323oh absolutely they cook like they hate food, i simply do not trust any bri’ish person with any sort of ‘ethnic’ foods because i just know they’re gonna fuck it up

[@JosiahTheRoach]

I'm mixed and when I was in like 1st grade, there was this girl who was Indian and Pakistani and she would always follow me around because I was "the only other kid who didn't act like she was weird". It was in 1st grade so I obviously didn't get what she meant by that but I enjoyed hanging out with her because she was also like me (most of the kids in my class where White, Hispanic, and African American) and we would eat together because we both had "weird smelling foods" according to the other kids. I hope she's doing better now

[@rockersr.g.2410]

I hope she remembers you as one of her good memories from school

[@AyanAli-py7ci]

Pakistanis are light skin Another factor is Pakistan is violent

[@rabiaahmed7659]

A Pakistani would punch you in the face

[@Michelle-rdz17]

Same I’m Hispanic and I had this Indian friend in elementary school who I would hang out with alot during class or recess bc we could relate about being singled out in a class full of black or white kids, the Hispanics kids were cool with her though.

[@genderfluidlygay7146]

That was definitely a core memory for her. Saying this as a Pakistani. I hope both of you are well :)).

[@Anonymous82819]

Keyboard warriors having a field day with this one

[@amandeepsharma9874]

They NEVER have this energy irl 😂

[@jnyerere]

I'm black and I just wanna say it's eye-opening to see youtubers of South Asian decent talk about their experiences with racism, white supremacy, and oppressive systems. I for one, was one of those people that assumed that South Asians were tolerant (and in some ways supportive) of the Status Quo. Maybe it was my ignorance. But it makes me happy to know that I was dead wrong.

[@kaiju9149]

There are people with different ideologies in all races. There are many South Asians who support the Status Quo.

[@Joyful_Smiles]

They do support it. It's the new generation that aren't tolerating it anymore.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

​@@Joyful_SmilesDefine what "support" in this context is.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

I am indian and I will say one thing that indians are mentally colonized. We were humiliated for 1000 years before independance so its easy to develop internalized racism. Also, our education system was developed by macaulay and indian marxists and it was designed in such a way to glorify the invaders. I don't know of a single other race that does this except for maybe filipinos. I wouldn't say that my parents generation was "accepting of the status quo". Its just that they were so cucked, it destroyed their self esteem and self worth. So indians are okay with being second class citizens bcos they have no other choice. I have also seen this with ppl from certain african countries, especially in middle east, europe etc. Idk why ppl think asians in general are supportive of racism. Its more like we have no other choice and are too much of cucks to do anything about it.

[@ricardoramos4514]

@@Joyful_Smilesthat’s how it is with most demographics.

[@yooyoyoyoyo243]

I’m black but I’m also a Canadian and racism against Indians is rising over here. My childhood best friend was Indian, her and her family were genuinely kind and sweet people, we have a lot of Indian immigrants in my town I see them all the time especially in stores an the white people here keep whining about the Indian immigrants (as if their immigrant grandparents didn’t colonize and murder the Ingenious people here smh 🤦🏾‍♀️)

[@kakonthebed]

Similar thing in South Africa. White people here will cry and whine all day long about Indians (moreso Zimbabweans nowadays actually) as if Indians and Zimbabweans aren’t literally carrying the economy on their backs

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Interesting, so economic immigrants are bad but refugees are okay. 😅

[@phoebesekine4783]

Lets give context. The white Canadians are whining because the recent influx of immigrants is crippling Canada’s housing market and standard of living. People are frustrated with that, and thats ok, because unchecked immigration is never a good idea. People using this as an excuse to be racist are not in the right at all, though, and it’s the government that’s at fault first and foremost.

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

uh huh

[@HoodQueen258]

@@phoebesekine4783 the thing about Indians in America is that they're very into their culture. They don't assimilate well compared to others

[@joseptet5991]

the fact that mocking indian accents automatically makes something “funny” like wtf

[@sugarxxzomb]

As a white girl, i have a brother who is so racist to desi people, its saddening. No matter how many times i tell him to stop mocking indian people/their accents he will not stop because "its just a joke/ youre being sensitive/but its just what they sound like" UGH

[@happypaws24]

​@@sugarxxzombbecause it is funny

[@sugarxxzomb]

@@happypaws24 I would reply negatively but your pfp makes me think you're 9 years old so I'll let you off and just tell you to educate yourself.

[@violetsden]

​​@@happypaws24Shut up you bot.

[@IVXTA_AEQVOR]

But why is speaking with an Indian accent considered to be racism by default? People mock Aussie accent (or whatever that hideous thing is) every day... Have you ever heard the infamous Mancunian accent, or the accent from the southern states of the US? People mock them as well, because they sound so different it's kinda funny. Now I agree that there's a worrying level of racism toward Indians, but sometimes banter is just banter. There's not always racism behind it.. On the other hand, the mean comments towards Indians that they smell, rape and so forth are obnoxious and unacceptable. That's undoubtedly racism.

[@bomberex7809]

One of the coolest references to Indian culture for me was the Spiderman: into the spider verse movie. Like I still remembering just watching that and and genuinely feeling proud of the fact im indian. There are other examples before that but honestly if you ask majority of people to name one Indian character that isn't just a funny awkward duded with a specifically comedic Indian accent.

[@Couldbebetter100]

I think u mean across the spider-verse right? That one has pavitr prabhakar, aka Indian spiderman

[@tempurashrimp9917]

I was pleasantly surprised by the mention of North Eastern India and thank you for it. India on its own is incredibly diverse and the horrid stereotypes that have been imposed on all of us have never truly died down. Thank you for this video, especially for our South Asian brothers and sisters 💖

[@percyweasley9301]

What is the time slamp?

[@Tabish_Nooristani]

Majority of the country is still very similar, we ain't counting exception.

[@XxAdelaide1994xX]

Yeah, I'm glad they got seen in this video. I'd love for more Northeast Indian representation in Indian media.

[@felix_a_fiend]

Mexicans 🤝 Indians Getting stereotyped like we’re still living in the 19th century

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW VERY DANGEROUS SIR! 😠 😠 BUT THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@haze1119]

@ indiasuperclean6969 is a troll, just ignore them

[@senornaranja9842]

No nos hagas amigos con la gente qué caga en la calle

[@hhoop3876]

@@indiasuperclean6969bait

[@jeeja292]

​@@indiasuperclean6969wtf

[@Literallydissociating]

“I’ve said so many slurs I’ve lost count” I think some of the kids these days are becoming adults after being in COD lobbies and thinking that kind of language is ok because so many other people were doing it. I could be wrong, that’s just my theory. (Source: I grew up in COD lobbies, but managed to save myself)

[@epitome-of-sin]

COD is well.. COD 😂. I grew up on COD as well and there were grown ass men acting this way. COD lobbies taught me to fight back and when to ignore.

[@Literallydissociating]

@@epitome-of-sin that’s very valid! I think some of the younger ones on COD though are like… more impressionable and see this behaviour and think it’s cool and acceptable, y’know?

[@sadibrabbani4518]

"Yo, don't shit on the street"😂

[@aarthirajaraman7453]

Hello mulla, remember to beg the IMF for some money to build some toilets, we gave some of our culture, you gave us your shit

[@m_s_5750]

​@@aarthirajaraman7453ugh, yea this behaviour right here is what they mean indians are hateful, bigoted and racist themselves. Its hard to defend you guys when you act like this. Disgusting, just adding more fuel to the fire.

[@m_s_5750]

Brother, i PROMISE you, this "joke" is NOT landing well. To people that hate Indians, YOU LOOK INDIAN 🤦🏽‍♀️ anywhere in the world you will go, you WILL be called that first. And i promise you if you correct them and say youre bengali, paki etc. They wont give a FUCK. We're all in the same boat here.