I can relate to this a bit. There was time when my niece (7yo at that time) did not want to take south Indian breakfast to school in Germany because her classmates would make fun of her. People who never experienced name shaming or shaming based on way of life would never understand the seriousness of this tweet/issue..
If I call you an idiot, and someone else robbed you of everything you own, do we both deserve the same punishment? Since they're both "offenses"?
From what I understand of the free speech laws in the US/Canada, this would get laughed out of court unless they could make a reasonable case for hate speech, which this wouldn't qualify as. And as far as I'm aware Dbrand doesn't even have a corporate entity in India that can be taken to court.
Never said it does. I'm saying that the response is disproportionate. All this for a non-racist, playground-level insult? There's no way that that's not an overreaction.
It's not dark humor, it's literally just bottom of the barrel, childish name-calling. It's not good to make fun of someone's name (not least because it's incredibly low brow), but to say that it's "going too far" is an incredibly thin-skinned response in my opinion.
I could understand this if there was literally any indication that they were doing it because he was Indian. Thus far no one has offered any evidence for that claim - I am open to changing my mind if someone does so.
Chicoms or their sympathisers do that. I see lots of these comments any time India is boosted and they're all CCP bots that pretend to be westerners. Who is most threatened by India's rise. China. Not westerners who would welcome India's rise as a counterweight. The biggest obstacle to a China centric Asia is India. Curry, dirty smelly has always been there but only of late do you get abused for it? By whom
When you can't identify the other side's ethnicity or origin you can't hit back and feel victimised.
There's always two options. Ignore or set traps and then discover who you're up against.
Yeah man. Looks like there are many who never came out of the comfort zone. For them, its all okay as long as they get freebies when something happens.
I don't know I'd have thought the opposite. It's those that have never experienced it that would react more emotionally.
I once told a Chinese guy about Indian names you could make fun of and then proceeded to make fun of Chinese names
Only when it happens to them for the first time. It would be more like a shock. As long as it is happening to a random person, they would be like 'why are they overreacting?'.
Yes but it's pervasive in which case growing up in India as opposed to elsewhere means you don't know how to parry or do repartee
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They did end up deleting the tweet, the guy is richer by $10000 and we can now go back to debating about Indian politics and climate change.
