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Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Rumdog millionaire 🤌
Fuckin Mozart making me nut so good from jealously
Cause racism is OK when it's people we don't like?
Literally nothing about this joke is denigrating southeast Asians, it's just a pun-infused pop culture reference. You need to understand what racism is before you start lobbing it as an accusation...
I'm out of the loop. What is the reference?
From what I can see ...?
There's a movie called Slumdog Millionaire where it's a guy that comes up from the slums and enters the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" gameshow.
He changed the word "slum" to "rum" because he drinks booze and I guess enters the Whitehouse.
I don't think the poster thought more than the wordplay but others are tying in other class and cultural aspects of the movie and applying it this instance. Others are saying name calling is sad.
I'm tired, it's a Friday night and I'm figuring out whether to study more on how to get better observability on my k8s cluster or just do more agentic programming stuff because my director told me this week that AI is going to take over everything and we're just going to write JIRA tickets and let the AI bots code and we're not allowed to code any more and I feel like I need rum myself to deal with this internal struggle I'm dealing with.
South asian, not south east asian. It's not racist but I definitely rolled my eyes. It's a movie from 20 years ago and Americans are not known for being particularly 'worldly' so it comes across as sees brown person - oh here's a movie from a couple decades ago that I remember had similar looking people in it
Using a racially-based pop-culture reference to make fun of someone seems pretty in line with racism to me. Just because it’s making fun of someone we don’t like seems little reason to discount it as racism.
This is like when someone put a statue of Trump with a micro penis in some park in New York. People loved it, but if someone had done the same thing to Hillary, there would be uproar. I hate Trump, but making fun of his body is no better when it’s him than it is when it’s someone else.
I think the divide on this issue has a lot of parallels with the paradox of tolerance.
In the eyes of many, punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency is permissible when dealing with high-profile professional peddlers of punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency.
I'm not exactly arguing in favor of it or trying to convince you, but I think that's the angle when you're dealing with a crowd that has contempt for the person but not for actual racial reasons.
I agree with your analysis. I hate Popper’s paradox of tolerance though. Not because I disagree with it but because of how it’s used by angry leftists to justify their own hatred. I do think fascists should be executed, but only the ones that truly would kill others for their ideology. Too many people on the left are fine with killing those that merely provide cover for the truly violent by agreeing with their views but not having the conviction to carry them out. ACAB people bother me this way. Patel is a piece of trash. But he’s a worthless piece of it. Let him drink himself to death. Let him be an example to his people.
You literally make no sense. For this to be racist, there would need to be something racist about the comparison. Like say if the movie itself was racist against Indian people. It is not. The joke is literally playing with the title of a movie. There is no further implication whatsoever. It doesn't make a judgement against him because he is Indian. It is pretty absurd to me that I need to explain this honestly. This is truly reaching to find something "racist" to feel superior about. Only problem is, it's not there whatsoever. There is nothing racist about noticing a person's ethnicity. Kinda mind boggling that people could be so blind to reality that they insist that's a thing.
Then you’re not listening, and I don’t need to respond.
Because nothing you could say would make it make sense
Pejoratively, and based on his race. I suppose you'd argue it's fine to call a Japanese man "Mr Miyagi", or African American man "Kunta Kinte"?
This is the same shit racist, conservative bigots do, and it's not OK just because it's aimed at them this time.
You're wrong. There is zero indication of judgement of Indian people. You're just white knighting and it's annoying to everyone else.
Lol, "annoying". Good. Most people don't like their racism called out. Those with actual merit can manage to self reflect, though. Whining about how the calling out makes you feel bad is pretty much the opposite of that.
Frauds do like to invent reasons to feel superior. No surprise there.
Yeah. I thought that when reading "rumdog millionaire" too.
Hardly adds to the veracity of the linked article.
Name calling has become so normalized in politics. It's seriously depressing.