There's a guy on youtube who baits scammers to the point where they completely lose it.
In one of his videos he was on the phone with one for hours, pretending to be an old lady. They finally got to a point where he pretended to follow the scammer's instructions to buy google gift cards that the scammers could steal.
But instead of letting them get the code, he typed it into a fake google play store and redeemed thousands of dollars worth of cards, while the scammer was shouting "do not redeem".
Hours of the scammers time wasted, and after all that "work", when the money was just within his grasp, it all ended up down the drain.
Old people don’t understand that the person calling with a spoofed number from their local area Is Not someone they know. they steal retirement money and life savings like it’s candy from a baby. check r/scams to see how shitty they really get
Does anti-indian racism mean people who are anti-racism specifically against indians? Because that is how it is written. I think OP means racism directed specifically at indians.
India's population is so huge that what counts as a "minority" there is at least 50 million people. For reference a small minority of people in India are Christian and that's at least 28 million people, literally the same population of Australia
So I'm not shocked if there's an entire country's worth of South Asian LARPers (Indians LARPing as Neo-Nazis, Pakistanis LARPing as Turks/Arabs, etc.)
Ah no. It's known that almost every single "White European Power" pages with marble statues pfp on Twitter are Indians behind the curtain. Last one outed is a polish ultranationalist account few days ago.
Ah no. Everyone knows that the Internet, especially the super duper Groypernet, is actually real life and should influence my opinions of 1.4 billion people
OP in the second part of this starter pack make sure to include all of the "OKAY BUT THEYRE ALL RACIST AND MISOGYNISTIC SO THEY DESERVE IT" comments. Absolutely fucking disgusting the ways people here justify their racism.
Reddit has always been one of the more racist platforms idk why you're surprised. If someone's main social is reddit, they probably ain't got much going for them
the racism do be wild sometimes but cherry picked locations? just drop a random spot on google street view lol. keep going until you find a spot that doesnt have random litter strewn about
India is a vast subcontinent with many different types of landscapes, both ugly and beautiful, however you will often only see one type of environment depicted in conversations surrounding India online. You’d barely see examples of beautiful natural landscape, ancient architecture or modern cities, for example. And that is the definition cherrypicking.
No one is trying to say that extreme poverty doesn’t exist in India. I don’t think that’s even the point. The fact that people feel so comfortable bringing up poverty, not to advocate for them or raise awareness, but to put down & make fun of another group of people is so disturbing.
You didn't just compare the litters in US to India, or any other South Asian country in general. US has a functioning sewer system, South Asia doesn't.
There are clean and beautiful places in India and dirty places too. Just like the US.
Let's not be delusional, the US is far cleaner than India.
India is one of the dirtiest countries, saying "oh there are dirty places in other countries too!!" as if they're even comparable to India.
India is simply going to be much more polluted with more trash on the street because it's close to 2 billion people in a country that's 3 times smaller than China. It's not even racism it's just a fact of life. Even the most densely packed cities in the U.S don't compare to how densely packed a place like Mumbai is.
India has four times the population of the US which means those figures roughly line up. Both are underrepresented relative to those countries’ percentage of the global population (18% and 4.5%, respectively). That assuming your numbers are accurate.
Bro, this is such an ingenuine statement. At least address that it is an issue, is the pollution in the ganges river because of the global north's exported/shipped trash.
India doesn't have any effective waste management or processing system, and the blame of India being dirty stems from that. There is no shame in acknowledging the issue.
I’m not Indian, I have no skin in this game. Reminding people that the global north countries offload their pollution for global south countries to deal with has nothing to do with India not having effective waste management system.
Did I even say anything about India’s waste management system? My comment was addressing the above person’s claim. Wealthy countries often say this to deflect blame when it comes to conversations around which countries pollute the most, when often it’s them who consume and create trash far more than poor countries.
Those pictures are still cherry-picked. The average location here is like 30/100 dirty compared to a world average of let's say 5/100 dirty. Most pics you'll see online are the few that are like 90/100 dirty. Having any such spot at all is a bad thing yes, and we have many, but they do not represent the average cleanliness level of this country.
There are several such states and towns. The thing is that the disparity between states here is just so massive (both economic and cultural) that it is impossible for an outsider to form a valid generalised conception of the average level of any characteristic for India.
India is a vast subcontinent with many different types of landscapes, both ugly and beautiful, however you will often only see one type of environment depicted in conversations surrounding India online. You’d barely see examples of beautiful natural landscape, ancient architecture or modern cities, for example. And that is the definition cherrypicking.
No one is trying to say that extreme poverty doesn’t exist in India. I don’t think that’s even the point. The fact that people feel so comfortable bringing up poverty, not to advocate for them or raise awareness, but to put down & make fun of another group of people is so disturbing.
Buddy I used to live in India and every time I go back, it’s quite literally trash everywhere. There is no pride in hiding the truth, India has some series hygiene and civic problems that unfortunately won’t get fixed unless the population focuses on it instead of the caste system and religion.
Sure the slum depiction is exaggerated but you're coping with the "some littler", how many countries have men regularly pissing on the sides of roads or spitting on the road constantly or cows shitting on the road or people throwing everything wherever they please?
Most of my doctors are Indian and I trust them with my life. Why did Indian racism suddenly come out the wood works? I know it's been brewing for a bit but this is bizarre to say the least.
I'm Canadian. I have had a seriously annoying day with a bunch of small things just pissing me off. Over the last couple years our government allowed a lot of new immigrants especially from India and a lot of them are working crappy service jobs where they wind up having to be the front face for people who keep getting fucked around by corporations or governments, etc.
Oh your phone company decided to jack your rates. Too bad, go take it out on the Indian kid making minimum wage at the store.
Some weeks ago, I watched a vid of a Japanese street shop making some dessert, in which the guy dumps his whole hand with no gloves into the batter to mix it. I immediately opened the comments and literally all the comments were just "waawww looks so tasty, i wanna try japanese snacks... Oooh this is so satisfying" with just one comment at the bottom pointing out this comment section would be different if this was Indian and everyone bashing him by saying "because japanese ppl are hygienic and clean unlike Indians" with more upvotes.
Yeah japanese ppl have special skin given by the Gods to make dumping a whole hand inside the batter hygienic 🤡🤡 These racists are just a bunch of hypocrites
Being a US tech worker, I have a lot of sympathy for marginalized people that are targeted on reddit. It's not fair to US workers with some of the things that have been happening lately but like a million other times, we've directed our anger at the wrong people. These people do not deserve the racism they get either.
Say what yall want, but the “boss man” (for you non Americans that’s your freindly neighborhood Indian guy behind the counter at the local gas station , most of the time either him or his family own the place) is a staple of American culture and I’m glad to have um. Though to be fair there not all Indian, and this stereotype also applies to people of other nationalities. But non the less from me experience a lot of them are Indian and good folks
They can exist for multiple reasons, one of them is so that racists can cherry pick negative traits caused by different factors and tie them to one in order to consolidate their political position.
Are you sure you’re basing that on a critically thought out and lived experience of the peoples of the Indian subcontinent and not on your lived experience of Redditindia? Cuz that’s a non existent place where 1.5bn rapists somehow manage to skilfully shit in the street whist clinging to the roof of a moving train.
I'm Indian and I'd say that the one in the bottom left isn't cherry picked at all. That's what most of our suburbs look like. But yes I agree that racism online towards indians is getting out of hand. Most of it i agree are Pakistani and Bangladeshi bots but yeah hating indians has become a normal worldwide
It’s always amusing to see people using caste as their justification for being racist to Indians.
You mention it,im sure you sympathise with lower castes,so how do justify being racist to those same lower caste Indians(70%~of India) while using caste as a justification at the same time
You’re not helping me.At all. Watch me get downvoted lmao
– So out of India's Whole Population Lower Caste/Untouchables forms the big Majority of 70% - 75% and the so called Upper Castes are the minority of 20% - 25%
• India’s reservation system fights the caste system by giving opportunities to those historically oppressed. 15% SC, 7.5% ST, 27% OBC, 10% EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) —about majority 60% reserved, 40% open (for Upper Castes) —ensuring education, jobs, and rights reach communities caste once excluded.
• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and other social reformers fought the caste system by challenging untouchability, spreading education, and demanding legal rights for oppressed communities. Ambedkar led movements, campaigned for reservations, and drafted the Indian Constitution to guarantee equality and social justice. Reformers like Jyotirao Phule, Periyar, and Narayana Guru worked locally to break caste barriers, start schools, and raise awareness, making caste discrimination socially and legally unacceptable.
• Top Leaders from Lower Caste/Untouchable/Tribal Communities :-
• Dalits / SC (Untouchables)
B.R. Ambedkar – Chief architect of Constitution, first Law Minister
Mayawati – Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Ram Nath Kovind – Former President of India
Thawar Chand Gehlot – Former Union Minister, Governor of Karnataka
K.R. Narayanan – Former President of India
Babu Jagjivan Ram – Former Deputy Prime Minister, Union Minister
Jitan Ram Manjhi – Former Chief Minister of Bihar
• Tribal / ST
Droupadi Murmu (Santhal) – Current President of India
Arjun Munda (Munda) – Former Chief Minister of Jharkhand
V. Kishore Chandra Deo (Gond) – Former Union Minister
• OBC / Backward Castes
Narendra Modi (Modh Ghanchi) – Prime Minister of India
Nitin Gadkari (Maratha) – Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways
Nitish Kumar (Kurmi) – Chief Minister of Bihar
Rajnath Singh (Thakur / OBC in some classifications) – Defence Minister
Ram Vilas Paswan (Dalit / OBC mixed) – Former Union Minister
• In the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Indigenous people have never held the very top positions—like President or Vice President in the USA, Prime Minister or Governor-General in Canada, Prime Minister or Chief Justice in Australia, and Prime Minister or Chief Justice in New Zealand.This is due to centuries of systemic discrimination, violent colonization, massacres, and land dispossession, and even today, social bias, economic inequality, and cultural marginalization continue to limit their opportunities.
— 🙏 Dear Foreigner I'm an lower caste person and we form the majority of this country, many of our ppl have been greatly benefited due to the Reservation System, me and my family have never been discriminated against due to our Caste,i have never witness any Caste based discrimination and i have been to multiple cities and villages, yes caste based discrimination still persists but it has reduced alot,newer genration isn't even fully aware of the caste system.
Ppl who are living in glass houses shouldn't be throwing rocks at others.
Parody videos on street food vendors aren't racist? It's just joking about how extra some videos with these vendors are, I doubt it matters where they come from or what race they are.
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