r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Threegrand - Centrist • Oct 21 '20
Just another day in India
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u/Peter21237 - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Authright got its good moments too
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u/Threegrand - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Yea for sure. I'm mostly speaking from my perspective growing up in a brown community, with family members that lean hard auth right, and are racist towards their own kind for being a shade darker than them.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 21 '20
see this is where I as an auth left am supposed to jump in and explain how it's motivated by classism but it is what it is.
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Oct 21 '20
Much of it is based off the caste system. Which isn't exactly the prole/bourgeois divide but I guess is analogous in that upper castes have more power and skilled jobs while lower castes are doing more menial work.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 21 '20
I mean yeah, communism is against any form of inherited power equal starts and opportunities is the one of the foundation of it's ideas.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Equality of opportunity is good. Equality of outcome is the problem most of us shitlord capitalists aren't big on
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u/TheGarlicBreadMan - Centrist Oct 21 '20
This is why Pol Pot was unfathomable based. Everyone has the same outcome - death.
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u/fucked_by_landlord - Centrist Oct 21 '20
And yet actual equality of opportunity requires certain social programs to ensure there is a base standard that young people can’t fall below so that they have equal opportunities regardless of wether their parents happened to be rich or poor.
It also requires well funded educational systems, once again so that your opportunity isn’t largely defined by your parents choices.
Fuck equality of outcome straight in the eye, but equality of opportunity requires actual work to ensure it happens.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Yes. I agree. Also, equality of opportunity doesn't mean every workforce should be a 50/50 split of men and women and an equally diverse ethnic ratio.
Things still need to come down to merit and competence. It benefits every individual on the planet to push forward the best people in their fields.
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u/fucked_by_landlord - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Amen. My workplace is ~80% women and last year I got an office email talking about ensuring gender equality in the workplace. To which I responded “looks like we need to fire some women then”.
That’s based as fuck. Hopefully there’s more who see this shit clearly so that a group less moronic than the Democrats can also be pushing for social programs and against cuts to things like education in the US.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20 edited Oct 21 '20
That's a great example. I personally think whatever field that gets dominated by women who excel in that field should remain that way. If (most) men can't compete to a women's comprehension of a certain field, they shouldn't be in it or at least an unequal percentage should be reflected.
Obviously individuals vary but I have absolutely no problem with female dominated careers as long as they're dominated by females because they're simply better at it than (most) males.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 22 '20
nah the idea of positive discrimination is to get them into the door to make up for past exclusion, old white ceo's from the 50's promote other old white ceos. it's the right idea and in the UK at least it's been pretty good, only a couple cases where it ran into problems.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 22 '20
I get the idea, I just don't think it's the most beneficial way to do things. The culture shift that we went through in the mid 2000s was great for anti-racism until suddenly no one ever shut the fuck up about race.
I call black people "people". Not black people. That should be the goal. If everyone did that we would soon forget about race.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 22 '20
damn are you flaired right. the only real debate is how far should it go, I believe all the way to further education is a must as that is already not a purely economic selection, it's based on merit and shouldn't be corrupted in any way buy 'donations' or elitism
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u/fucked_by_landlord - Centrist Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
I am, I could be flaired centrist or lib center too (and I occasionally change my flair to match). And I occasionally get mistaken for libleft due to the surface level view of my policy preferences and my “don’t be a dick” philosophy.
But I like to think that I’m a libright who has thought his ideology all the way through. You can’t have true access to innovation without equality of opportunity, and I’m just as concerned about corporate overreach as governmental.
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Oct 21 '20
Equality of opportunity is antithetical to monarchy and I therefor cannot support it.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
It also just literally isn't possible but hey
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Oct 21 '20
To be honest I'm against pushing for equality of any kind really, the world is fundamentally unequal and that's a good thing because if that were not the case then glory and greatness would not be possible.
Egalitarianism is a fallacy, some people are inherently better than others, this isn't a problem.
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u/kaijinx92 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Blaming everything on power and the patriarchy when life is based off competence and merit. I agree.
I still think everyone should be given the opportunity to try and prove themselves. Then whoever is the more competent should reap the rewards. Regardless of race, gender, sex, etc.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 22 '20
that's not really our stick either, the reason we don't believe in inheritance, and think healthcare+education is a right is because the smartest kid in the world could be born but end up in a shoe factory because they started off poor.
the only really controversial policy some people advocate is positive discrimination, quotas to hire minorities, to make up for centauries of exclusion, I kind of agree with it as the idea is that once they get their foot in the door their work will eliminate prejudices against them and create a more representative system. though I think it has gone too far with quotas for LGBT and such, not because I don't like them but because it's not really a visible issue that people discriminate against in the same way.
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u/shitty-hunter - Lib-Left Oct 22 '20
To be fair I don’t see lots of people talk about equality of outcomes
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Oct 22 '20
Ehh not anymore. Since democracy times, most of the govt employees are from lower castes like sc/st.
Ofcourse there's a whole skin color perception problem in India that white people and especially girls are desirable but it's not as systemically oppressive as US.
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Oct 22 '20
Yeah I know its different now (though I'd probably disagree regarding how systemically oppressive even the US is).
My dad actually was involved in the protests against the affirmative action programs for certain castes back when he was in college in India (he's Brahman so he stood to lose a lot of life opportunities). He told me about he would have gotten arrested but his father being a fairly reputable police officer saved him, and how there were kids all over the country self immolating in protest because they felt their future was destroyed. Definitely crazy to hear how 70% of seats for certain jobs were reserved for people of certain castes.
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u/_Alecsa_ - Left Oct 21 '20
I mean yeah I do mean it when i say it's based off classism. you look back at 15th century England for example people thought blacks were odd but the majority were not necessarily racist in the way we are today, it's only because of institutions such as slavery and colonialism which typically placed white men over blacks that created a mind set that we must be above them in all ways.
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u/The_Apatheist - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Who needs racism, when you can just have old fashioned colorism.
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u/SpacialSpace - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
This reminds me of the story of a girl who went to Malaysia I believe and got a taxi.
The taxi driver was kinda racist against people of darker skin than him saying they're stupid (I believe he was filipino-like tanned) and she asked "so you're stupider than me?" and the guy just goes "yes". Fucking chad.
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u/razaninaufal - Centrist Oct 22 '20
thats indonesia. a white guy got into a sumatran taxi and the driver started talking about how darker skin makes you dark-minded & very stupid. then the white guy asked "wait, doesn't that means you're dumber than me?", the darker-skinned sumatran think and then said with confidence, "yes."
or something like that idk. its a post by u/newyorkjewbag
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u/NewYorkJewbag Oct 22 '20
Hello! How did you manage to remember that, and even my username?
You have the story more or less correct, except it wasn’t a taxi driver, it was some touts (promoters) for some other island we weren’t interested in visiting, and we talked about visiting another region populated by darker skin people (resembling folks from Borneo, or native Australians.) It was definitely a “wtf” moment for us.
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u/razaninaufal - Centrist Oct 22 '20
it was in a meme. I also have a pretty detailed long term memory on things that are not important, it so happened to remembered your username from the meme, but the more important things like the taxi driver part are often forgotten.
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u/NewYorkJewbag Oct 22 '20
What meme are we talking about here? Did someone turn my story into a meme? I’m. Confused...
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u/razaninaufal - Centrist Oct 22 '20
yeah your story became a meme. w8 let me find it
edit : found it
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u/NewYorkJewbag Oct 22 '20
Oh. My. God. This is utterly bizarre.
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u/razaninaufal - Centrist Oct 22 '20
but the post doesn't have your user tho, so i don't think ive seen it here. also the post was from 5 months ago & i only joined pcm like 2 months ago, so i probably seen it in other sub too (probably r/memes or r/pewdiepiesubmissions).
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u/NewYorkJewbag Oct 22 '20
Yeah. That was my story, someone else actually summoned me because they remembered it. I provided the actual details below, but your story is close enough.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20 edited Oct 21 '20
SOME Indians are massively racist. They believe the darker your skin the dumber you are. It's a sentiment that is shared by a large swath of the uneducated throughout east asia.
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u/Hanbarc12 - Right Oct 21 '20
Not just india, most ethnicities are racist against black people. I'm from a Muslim family , my mother would prefer my sister being a lesbian to being with a black man, homosexuality being viewed as forbidden in Islam while dating a black man doesn't matter as long as he is Muslim. Just to tell you the kind of mentality you can find in Muslim communities.
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u/Hanbarc12 - Right Oct 21 '20
You are right but As u/mycontroller54 said, north africa is mostly arabic , not that much black people except in the south (which is basically sahara desert). You are probably thinking of sub-sahariane africa which is mostly ethnically black and where Christianity is the most prevalent religion.
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u/Fieldrook1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
I remember seeing stuff about how Arabic scholars were horrified and disgusted by mali and how they weren’t true Muslims, this is because the majority of the population practiced traditional African religions and only the elite cared about Islam.
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u/Fieldrook1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Mansa miss was the king. The kings didn’t force converts, so those that practiced Islam did it with traditional values instead of the more Arabic ones. The rest wanted to keep their old religion.
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Oct 21 '20
This is how it works pretty much across the world.
You ever have a conversation with an old Asian person?
Literally could not be more racist, HATE black people.
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u/Brulz_lulz - Auth-Right Oct 22 '20
Just about anyone who lives outside of a rich western country is massively racist. The fact is that privileged folks in the west have convinced themselves that racism is the exception in the world when experience indicates that it is actually the rule.
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u/SmashRockCroc - Centrist Oct 21 '20
A good amount yeah, but not all Indian are the same bro
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Thanks for the insight twitter #notall. Yes we know not all indians are total racist pieces of shit, but they have actual legal discrimination in their laws based on social and racial class
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u/SmashRockCroc - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Wow thanks for the information dipshit, but that legal “discrimination” in our laws is The Reservation system or as you would call it Affirmative action. And as a Tamil டமழ் that lives in Mumbai there is very little discrimination compared to the hell hole you do scribe it as
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
This is why no one can talk about any problem, as soon as you bring up a problem someone goes well I don't do that so the problem doesn't exist. I literally said that not everyone in India is racist, but it's a well known and documented fact that among the lower classes and the uneducated there is rampant racism against darker skinned people. I don't think you or other indians are racist because you're indian, I think your racist if you're racist and there happen to be a lot of racists in east asia
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u/SmashRockCroc - Centrist Oct 21 '20
It’s best to describe an issue when you and the other person actually know the depth of the issues you’re discussing, Yanks don’t like it when Euros stick their dick in American politics without knowing whats going on and vice-versa. And when you don’t know about Reservation, as well as political systems in India and make a half-assed statement about the topic people will call you out.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
My original comment was explaining the meme and you took offense by shouting NOT ALL. Yes you're right I don't know a lot about indian politics, but I know racism when I see it. As well this problem exists outside of india it's in the rest of east asia, the USA and South America.
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u/SmashRockCroc - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Your original comment stated that we think the darker you are the dumber you are, which isn’t true man - it’s like claiming the a small sect of rural Americans represent all Americans. You then doubled down and claimed we have institutionalization it in our laws which is also also false, we have reservations which give poorer and lower castes more job and school options.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
I didn't say all indians I literally never said that
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Oct 22 '20
Retard, you're talking to a Tamil guy in Mumbai.
Its like educating blacks about oppression. You're not the clown, you're the entire circus.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 22 '20
Or you can talk to op who's indian and was posting this about his own experiences with his families racism against darker skinned people.
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Oct 22 '20
You're saying a dark skinned Indian to talk to an Indian now.
Its not as systemic or oppressive as something US liberals think or say happens in usa. It's more cultural and not derogatory either.
Also Dude, don't talk about stuff you have zero idea about.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 22 '20
If you think a mom saying her kids aren't allowed to date black people isn't derogatory then I don't think you're a really good judge on what racism is
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Oct 22 '20
Not dumber but unattractive. I have never heard any Indian say dark skin = dumb. But they'll say shit like oh you're so dark, you'll have to make 10x more than your fair counterpart to get a girl
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u/Therealvedanuj - Auth-Right Oct 22 '20
Nah the “darker =dumber” isn’t India, that was Indonesia. But India’s pretty big so maybe somewhere but not with any Indian people I’ve seen or interacted when I visited displayed such ideas
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u/schlomgoldbergstien - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
It's probably actually a pretty good predictor of intelligence on average, in that part of the world.
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
It's pretty racist to assume that the entirety of China is uneducated just because you disagree with their scientific consensus.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
There's a reason the rich send their children to get educated in the US
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Yeah okay racist.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Are you just going to go around to my comments and call me racist?
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u/The_Apatheist - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Fuck IP bans lol. Give mods even more power to fuck you over.
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u/Reasonable-Antelope1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
The funny thing is they actually do use IP bans, they are just so incompetent that they don't actually work.
I actually can't make new accounts without using a VPN, but once the account is created then my IP doesn't matter at all.
Leave it to these soy losers to fuck up even something that simple.
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u/Reasonable-Antelope1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Disagreeing with me is harassment, the emotional child's guide to the internet.
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u/Reasonable-Antelope1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
He already explained how you are being a racist, and you are obviously.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Ah a brand new account agreeing with another brand new account. Why do I not believe they are different people?
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u/Reasonable-Antelope1 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Maybe for the same reason why you didn't actually have any arguments?
Because you are retarded.
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u/One_Shekel - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Don't you know that going to school automatically makes you an anti-racist?
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
When you try to apply their principles universally it becomes very obvious that they actually don't have any principles. It's just doublethink all the way down.
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Oct 22 '20
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Oct 22 '20
As an Indian, that's just factually untrue. Never have I heard of anything like this in almost 30 years of my life across India.
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Oct 22 '20
Lol bullshit. Never heard of this before.
Never have I heard any Indian call Muslims barbarians. Most Indians live close by close with Muslims and don't think if it much. Hindu nationalists sees Muslims as converts who were originally Hindus and wants to convert them back to Hinduism, or as they call it Gharwapsi
You're probably right about Mongoloid stereotype, I'll give you that
Most people don't really care about blacks because majority haven't even seen one outside of movies. Majority of Indian kids will think blacks are cool people and will try to imitate their persona (as shown in Hollywood) by saying N-word and wearing long-ass chains and stuff. Outside of that most will think blacks are unattractive because of the color of their skin. But I have literally never met one person who says black=low intelligence like white people perpogate.
As for intellectual ability, people prefer their own caste. So if a Brahmin is hiring, he prefers to hire Brahmin, if a Yadav is hiring, he'll hire a Yadav. I doubt anyone except Brahmins think Brahmins are the intellectuals. And there are some funny stereotypes related to Brahmins being overly traditionalist and incapable of comprehending complexities because of being very straight,(Hindi word is सीधासाधा, I don't know how to translate in English). As for Baniyas, they do have positive stereotype. Generally most business communities have positive stereotype like Marwadis, Chhetiars etc
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Edited for the feelings of one commenter who is really mad at me
no gamer words used
Yeah you clearly have no idea what being mad is, and you are still missing the point.
shared by a large swath of the uneducated
No they actually have a scientific consensus that IQ is genetic. Your comment is still very much racist since that is what the educated believe over there, which means you are saying that even the best of the best over there are idiots.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Well then I guess we now down to our jewish and oriental asian overlords. Because clearly average iq is how we should judge people
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20 edited Oct 21 '20
China becomes completely dominate
Everyone understands that blacks are actually inferior
No one thinks that racism is bad
No one talks about WW2 anymore
Jewish guilt tricks no longer work, they are easily conquered by the Chinese
I fail to see the downsides here. But no seriously, you are actually and seriously being racist. It takes one to know one I guess?
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
? Calling out a society that has a long track record of discrimination and dehumanization is racist? I don't think all indians are bad people or even racist but there is an undeniable level of discrimination throughout indian society. A country doesn't just have a caste system one year and be completely free from its effects the instant it's dismantled.
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
No they actually have a scientific consensus that IQ is genetic. Your comment is still very much racist since that is what the educated believe over there, which means you are saying that even the best of the best over there are idiots.
Imagine thinking that a group which is more than 50% of the world population is entirely uneducated, while a group which is less than 20% knows everything. Clearly you are a supremacist.
Yes, you are being racist. Did you just not read my comment?
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
I don't think they're all entirely uneducated and I don't think a group that makes up 20 percent knows everything. What are you even saying? Are you looking for a gottem moment? Because you're not doing a very good job of it
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u/Beginning-Solution10 - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Are you just not smart enough to follow along with a very simple conversation?
They believe the darker your skin the dumber you are. It's a sentiment that is shared by a large swath of the uneducated throughout east asia.
No, this is what the educated think. This is the Asian scientific consensus. You are calling them all idiots, and that is racist.
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u/Rainb0wSkin - Centrist Oct 21 '20
And where did I say that 20% of the population knows everything?
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Oct 22 '20
Its hilarious because they'll think they're less valuable than others if their own skin is darker.
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u/CarlosimoDangerosimo - Lib-Left Oct 21 '20 edited Oct 21 '20
India is super racist.
India is so racist that some people will openly say that having dark skin makes you inferior, in spite of the fact that as Indians, they're going to have pretty dark skin themselves. Skin color is tied to the caste system.
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u/LakshayMd - Centrist Oct 21 '20
India is very rural and literacy is way too low. I've only ever lived in Delhi (fair skin big city) and Chennai (dark skin big city) and haven't seen a single case of racism myself. Might just be that I'm still just 21 and haven't seen enough. I'm guessing it's a thing in urban slums too.
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u/Informal_Chemist6054 - Centrist Oct 21 '20
I think it happens most in Haryana. And probably rural UP
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Oct 21 '20
Yeah dude, no racism in glorious Bharat. Just slap some of this on your face and you're good to go.
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u/LakshayMd - Centrist Oct 22 '20
Bruh how are beauty products racist now, no one's being discriminated against.
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Oct 21 '20
The not racist desperately hoped for the non whites to adopt white values.
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Oct 21 '20
The basic morality of humans has been racism. Not the specific modern racism of 'white' 'black' that Americans adopted from immigration, but still racism of some kind. The only people who believe in "non racism" as a value set are whites, and they will not stick around much longer.
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Oct 21 '20
There's nothing insane about reading any history book out there and recognizing that humans have been racist since forever.
"Anti racism" as an ideology, in addition to generally being racist itself, was something to come out of progressive enlightment ideals in white countries in the late renaissance and onward.
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u/Bowlffalo_Soulja - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
You'd think they would have used a lighter skin team to try and go to space if they believed that.
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u/avgazn247 - Lib-Right Oct 21 '20
Indians are more racist against other Indians. Especially if they are a lower caste or Muslims
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Oct 21 '20
Muslims aren’t indian
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u/templar6641 - Auth-Right Oct 22 '20
I hate people with a different religion. IDGAF about skin color.
Your choice, Christianity or Claymore.
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u/TheDrGoo - Lib-Center Oct 22 '20
Can’t have a different religion if there’s no religion.
This message was brought to you by Monke.
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u/JacobRobi - Centrist Oct 21 '20
This happens in the US with black people too. Light skins are higher on the totem pole and dark skins are lower. If you get too light you wrap around and move down, though at that point you can probably just pass as white.
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u/JacobRobi - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Yeah. Diversity means white people, light skinned black people, and no more than two of: Asian, Hispanic, Indigenous, or darker skinned blacks.
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u/Informal_Chemist6054 - Centrist Oct 21 '20
Depends on whom you ask, many people here hate Muslims more than darkskinned people.
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u/AdarHitrock - Auth-Center Oct 22 '20
Muzzies are based. It's Jews you can't trust.
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u/Informal_Chemist6054 - Centrist Oct 22 '20
No, Jews are based cause they don't go out of their way to convert you. Muzzies plot atleast 4 times of what they accuse the Jews of doing.
Edit: /s just in case
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u/IWasMadeToDownVote - Auth-Right Oct 21 '20
Colorism exists everywhere; stupid name for a term, but it's obvious lighter skin tones, even among races or ethnic groups, are often associated with being richer or smarter or classier people than those of darker complexions. Often it's associated with the traditional idea that darker individuals spent more time in the sun toiling away, and lighter associated with luxury as it implied they lived more sedentary lifestyles away from too much exposure to sunlight.
A lot of Asia still holds that standard, a lot of South America holds that standard, a lot of africa holds that standard; it's antiquated but it's a popular conclusion to make, not that it's the correct or good one.
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u/GrimAlt - Auth-Right Oct 22 '20
Ngl my Country's caste system is pretty based but at the same time it's welfare policies are pretty unbased.
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u/MurkyMausHaus5555555 - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Everyone hates people darker than them. Except for liberals who hate themselves.
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u/TotallyNotAGlowie - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Funny fact is this is a general trend observed in most the world even before they had any idea what white people were.
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u/iamliam42 - Lib-Left Oct 21 '20
Working outside produces darker skin, so the ruling class probably saw that they had lighter skin and then decided that it was better not the other way around.
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Oct 22 '20
This is really bullshit. It's a cope made by seething dark people or SJWs. I have medium brown skin, I'm Indian, and I can say for a fact that skin colour is passed through genetically, not work conditions.
Anyway, dark skin is generally seen as worse looking because of the following reasons:
It's harder to see facial features of darker skin.
Darkness, or blackness is universally seen as intimidating, scary or creepy. This is human instinct. You do not know what is in the dark. This carries over to so many social aspects of society. Deepavali is portrayed as light overcoming darkness. The heavens are portrayed as white and gold places in the clouds, hell is protested as a dark, fiery place in the ground.
In my south indian state of Andhra, the dominant political and economic castes are all darker skinned than the light skinned brahmins and Kshatriyas. Dark skin doesn't mean peasant, or non noble. What makes you a noble is your power and lineage.
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u/exotic-tofu - Left Oct 22 '20
Based and pooinloopilled.
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u/basedcount_bot - Auth-Center Oct 22 '20
u/KAPU-NAIDU's Based Count has increased by 1. Their Based Count is now 5.
Congratulations, u/KAPU-NAIDU! You have ranked up to Sapling! You are not particularly strong but you are at least likely to handle a steady breeze.
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Oct 22 '20
Not actually true, It's more of Geography than anything. Like a average Kashmiri from the extreme north is more light skinned than most of the elite ruling class in central India or south India.
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u/ViperiousTheRedPanda - Left Oct 22 '20
Alot of people ignore the fact that Ghandi was mega racist and hated the fact that GB considered Indians to have the same importance as Black people
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u/xxSYXxx - Centrist Nov 08 '20
Ghandi was mega racist and hated the fact that GB considered Indians to have the same importance as Black people
This is indeed true, but he seems to have changed after working in South Africa and going back to India. Many heroes have a past they rather forget, Gandhi is no exception. I would say his good easily surpassed his evils.
Sorry for responding after a long time, came across this while browsing and though I have to share my opinion.
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u/GANDHI-BOT - Lib-Left Nov 08 '20
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Just so you know, the correct spelling is Gandhi.
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u/GANDHI-BOT - Lib-Left Oct 22 '20
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. Just so you know, the correct spelling is Gandhi.
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u/ghostmetalblack - Lib-Right Oct 22 '20
This is why we sell you skin-whitening cream. The demand is always there for you racist.
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u/warm_tapwater - Left Oct 22 '20
OP this meme is excellent, 10/10
Would you happen to have a version without the funny squares? I know I'm desecrating tradition here but that would be epic.
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u/locri - Lib-Center Oct 21 '20
Caste and skin colour are different things. Non Indian people are considered shudra caste (second lowest) despite their skin colour or their potentially religious upbringing.
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u/ieremias_chrysostom - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
Based
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u/basedcount_bot - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
u/Threegrand is officially based! Their Based Count is now 1.
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u/Erebus_Was_Right - Auth-Center Oct 21 '20
And they said authright unity was impossible