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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Not the point.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am seeing the slur in Instagram as well.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago

By came from I mean it originated from there.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Is it actually a slur, or just a stereotypical sounding name? Because if its the second isn't it just like Barry eating his 3rd pie and chips of the afternoon with a pint of wife beater?

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's both a stereotypical sounding "name" and a slur in the way 4chan uses it. They don't mean a specific type of Indian person, they mean an Indian person. It's not used like how some Brits use 'Barry' to mean a foolish person or Americans use 'Karen' to mean an entitled person.

I'm pretty sure it isn't even actually a real name, it just sounds like it should be to racists.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah probably this. There's other examples, like calling Soviet citizens "Ivan" in a derogatory way.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Sometimes Internet racism really confuses me. So Indians are in this case bad because they are.... particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace? Just generally not hateful people? I don't get it.

You mean S Asia? India isn't exactly east...