188 points

Could be Pakistani. The most Indian-hating person I ever met was a Pakistani guy.

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India and Pakistan have a bit of a history

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61 points

Understatement of the century ☝️

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30 points

Hahahaha that’s akin to “Israelites and Palestinians have been in a bit of a disagreement for a few years now.”

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8 points

Honestly it’s either or. I knew a couple of guys back in uni, one Indian the other Pakistani and they were really tight. Maybe it’s just the narrow minded bigots who blindly hate another because of political history rather than treat them as an individual.

Also knew an Israeli and a Palestinian (weren’t tight as such but were friendly with each other).

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11 points

Honestly, it’s a love-hate relationship. There’s nobody they hate more than the other, at the same time there’s nobody who understands them better than the other.

Even then, the hate is mostly political. It’s politically beneficial to both countries to keep the hate flowing.

Source: am Pakistani.

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Fair enough.

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PAKISTAN NUMBER ONE 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🔥🇵🇰🇵🇰🔥🔥

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29 points

Why are you burning the flag?

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127 points

Anon actually so racist can’t tell Indians apart from Pakistanis

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14 points

Same story for Africa and the Middle East

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It’s been seventy years now. How long do you think dead Britons will have more responsibility for and power over India and Pakistan than the people in those countries?

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? They actually spent a lot of time looking over census data to see where the majorities were. That’s why some of the lines are so weird.

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15 points

You’re misunderstanding the issue. The British tried to fix certain issues that really didn’t need fixing. To their credit they did abolish a few insane practices, but the partition was never gonna be a good thing.

I’m not a historian. I’m just recounting stuff I’ve been taught.

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6 points

disagree. see Radcliffe Line and its implementation.
spending five weeks to decide fate of 80 million people without even visiting the place in person isn’t spending “a lot of time.”

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26 points

Pakistan -> Muslim Indians

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22 points

Found the Indian.

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6 points

Nah bro but they both got great food and Im a programmer so I basically am

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14 points

I dont think that applies only to racist people

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7 points

When you don’t know that they are ethnically the same people…

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97 points

I used to work with this lifted-truck literally red-necked red neck. He kept going on about how hot his girl was, and how white she was.

One day he shows me her picture, and she was indeed a very hot dark skinned Latina. Some people are just in denial.

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A lot of Latin American people see themselves as white and would get very offended if you suggest otherwise
Edit: Sorry I had no idea latinx was offensive

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84 points

They’d certainly get offended if someone referred to them as “latinx”, lol

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45 points

How are people still saying that unironically?

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3 points

What does the x mean?

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3 points

I’m from the wrong continent to really understand this issue in depth but what’s wrong with ‘Latin American’ as a term?

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56 points

Having had this conversation with literally 300+ hispanic people, never once has a single one had a single positive thought about “latinx”. Gendered nouns is literally a large part of their language.

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Fun fact; English used to have three genders --masculine, feminine and neuter-- like most of the other Germanic languages, but they got stripped out over the years for historical reasons having to do with the Danelaw and the Norman conquest and are gone by the time of filthy old Chaucer.

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Yea the whole thing started and is mostly used by a fringe people who are going a tad too far with political correctness.

Mind you, I’m fine with political correctness and I’m left leaning but sometimes you can go to far.

But if someone wants to be referred to by those terms then be my guest.

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10 points

Genered nouns is the backbone of so many goddamn languages. The people being offended by it are the ones that don’t speak that tongue.

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14 points

Please stop using “latinx”.

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14 points

I lot of Latinos are white, but she was not. Of course to a racist like this guy, no Latino is really white.

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12 points

Not as offended as they would be if called them Lafuckingtinx to their face lmao.

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7 points

Only Americans seem to draw a distinction between Spanish descendents other European descendents. Presumably because they’re poor and on the wrong side of a line someone drew on a map.

Antonio Banderas was bemused when he was labelled a “person of colour”.

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Yes I’ve had this argument with some Latino people. I guess they don’t to be on the shitside of the stratification, but the racist whites hate them as well.

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59 points

I mean, we’re on Lemmy, every American here hates America

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5 points

Why did you bold the “a” at the end of America?

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15 points

Probably to emphasize the difference with “Americans”.

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4 points

Didn’t occur to me right away but you’re right. On the other hand, if they live in India then most of the people who ever wronged them would also be from India (which is also not an ethnic group as pointed out)

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I don’t, but I’m not very popular around here either. My country is far from ideal, but I still mostly like it.

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I don’t hate America, I just wish we could be better. Hate takes too much energy

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4 points

Just the loud shitters. I love my american friends and their culture

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1 point

I love mericans

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45 points

I feel like this phenomenon should have a catchy name, like: “No one hates Scotsmen more than Scotsmen.”

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33 points

Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

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15 points

It’s called “uncle ruckus” In my circles.

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9 points

Omg, I forgot about that character 😅

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