you actually feel gaslit when you try to tell white people of a certain age that pewdiepie, with a platform so vast and catering to youth, helped reinvigorate racism and casual dehumanization towards indians because they get all āomg you canāt blame One man for thatā like yes i can actually :) we were very incrementally making our way past the gas station indian popularized by apu and indian creatives were finally being given legitimate and serious opportunities (like say what you will about aziz and mindy in hindsight but at the time that was a shift culturally) only for this dumb swedish pig to get online and spark that vile shit right back up. ask any indian with a modicum of pride in their heritage and they can tell you how uncomfortable pewdiepie made us with ourselves
I agree entirely except itās generally better not to call someone a āSwedish pigā when youāre discussing racism. Because thatās ⦠thatās racism.
bruh.
Bruh what? It is. Oh, itās ok cause heās a fucking asshole? Thatās not how it works.
iām not doing 2016 politics with you like you are off your fucking rocker telling a person from a colonized country that is directly impacted by his racism that i have to mind the way i talk about him when he didnāt mind the way he talked about my ENTIRE ethnic and cultural identity, so much so that children now peddle casual racism against me & mine. nobody has to play nice with their colonizers and those who uphold their colonizers. like we have done these exact political talking points as far back as 2012 and it is so tired.

















