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I'm dreadfully sorry but yes it was. I have many Indian friends and they are sick of that type of casual racism and build a corner shop bollocks as well. Any more questions?
Who is the Prick Now !
"That video of them scamming a 13 year old girl just shows they give absolutely zero fucks."
If that was half paid for by UK taxpayers, its money better spent than the long list of wasted money by this current tory govt. 75mil total cost? bargain. Thats single premiership football player money. Makes it even more impressive.
First thing that farage said was we should stop aid after this was annouced which says it all the racist cunt.
Sure there are higher priorities at home, but there is a big fucking list of back burner into tory hands from UK taxper money which eclipses the small amount we give to india.
Im with Jfingers on this.
Next thing you'll tell us is that there are no Nigerian princes asking for funds to liberate their millions.
If you haven't read it then I commend it to you:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-White-Tiger
The original point - which you haven't referenced and which has been made in countless other posts - is that the yawning chasm between rich and poor in India is getting ever wider and little has been done to address it. This doesn't sit well with spending gazillions on a moon landing which will have zero impact on India's population (or populations anywhere else in the world for that matter). It's political posturing.
Ever been to a large Indian city? Try Delhi. Abject poverty and life and death on the pavement sit side by side with unbelievable wealth. And then try justifying sticking a bloody lander on the moon.
It is racist to extrapolate that to suggest that all Indians are scammers or that everything India as a nation does is in order to scam people. Just as it is to suggest that India as a nation went to the moon to open a corner shop.
Is it racist to imply India went to the moon to open a scammers call centre?
Yes, implying that India went to the moon solely to open a scam call center is indeed offensive and racist. It perpetuates negative stereotypes and is disrespectful towards India's scientific achievements. It's important to engage in respectful discussions and avoid spreading misinformation or offensive content.
Who would have thought? Absolute madness. Can’t say anything these days.
There was, I recall, also an insinuation that they would be arguing “over whether to build a Sikh or Hindu temple or a Mosque at the landing site”.
Just harmless bantz, innit?
No-one was suggesting 'that everything India as a nation does is in order to scam people' either.
Do you think that was a racist suggestion?
Bonus points for wriggling out of the question again.
A lot of the jokes top of thread, while clearly meant as friendly, light humour and with no maliciousness, are racist.
They take stereotypes about India and use them to make jokes about things which are nothing to do with those stereotypes. Yes, there are call centres for scams in India, there also are in the UK. We have jokes about curry, jokes about expensive corner shops. We have not covered ourselves in glory here.
Imagine an Indian going....
"Did you hear, British inventor Tim Berners-Lee just created a way of sharing information via computer called the world wide web?"
"What's that for? Tips on being fat, drunken, vulgar or violent slobs obsessed with a stupid dumb sport and who steal from and murder everyone wherever they go?"
Might we maybe be a bit offended? Despite the fact that globally, a lot of people see the British as fat, drunken vulgar or violent slobs obsessed with a dumb sport and historically mostly murderers, thieves and pirates?
Are we genuinely going to argue that if an Indian fretboarder, or indeed as it's public, any Indian on the internet googled this and read this thread, they wouldn't be a bit offended?
You said:
I said: "Agreed, but nobody was suggesting that (until now)"
You then said "What about the rest of the sentence?"
I responded. You now appear to be asking me to respond to your next sentence which was "Just as it is (racist) to suggest that India as a nation went to the moon to open a corner shop."
If you want an answer to your question, I suggest you ask it of the person who posted it.
Why don't you address the massive disparity between rich and poor in India in the context of their moon landing, which was the main point I made in my original reply? Isn't it contentious enough?
Argh!
Popular literature, TV and film, children's books and toys, etc, etc. We shouldn't feel ashamed about bringing 'pirates' to a global audience.
British wealth, particularly in the Tudor period, grew massively due to piracy, state-sponsored so officially "privateering" - mostly of Spanish ships around the Caribbean and returning from South America. Sir Francis Drake, while yes he was a notable sailor, gained his fame, wealth and rank from piracy.
The Spanish Armada was launched, largely, as a last gasp "please knock off all the piracy" gesture from the Spanish, who were losing noticeable wealth from their (unpleasant, murderous, genocidal) rule of their South American colonies. Elizabeth I paid off all the national debt run up by her idiot father quite quickly, due to piracy.
Even in the height of the British Empire in the 19th century, the Royal Navy had a generous and complex prize system to encourage ships to be taken, not sunk, to transfer that wealth to Britain. Taking a treasure ship, rare as it was, would make the Captain a very rich man, and even the lowliest seaman could expect a massive payday.
So yes, the British... conquerors, murderers, pillagers, pirates... occasional guardians of democracy and fair play, historically speaking.
Probably worth commenting as well, that in the 18th-19th century, to not be conquering was to be conquered, and Britain was noticeably more decent and humane an occupier, by and large, than many other imperial powers.
However, I suspect the memory of Britain in India is not a fond one. We may have built universities and railways, but we also were partly responsible for the unspeakable bloodshed of partition, not to mention the many, many atrocities committed over a century of direct rule.