No, it’s regularly used as shorthand for South Asians and/or Latinos. It certainly can have derogatory undertones though, just like “Mexican” isn’t inherently r

No, it’s regularly used as shorthand for South Asians and/or Latinos. It certainly can have derogatory undertones though, just like “Mexican” isn’t inherently racist but often has negative connotations. This has been statistically investigated using word embeddings to claim that language models are racially biased, but in reality it just shows the way we use language—in a racially biased way.