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@dang this sarcastic comment is a racist trope, "Britons were running around the forest worshiping trees when Indians had indoor plumbing." Could you please a
by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
@dang this sarcastic comment is a racist trope,
"Britons were running around the forest worshiping trees when Indians had indoor plumbing."
Could you please address this?
- Wildgoose 4y agoI'm English/British and I don't recognise this as racist, just another acknowledgement of facts you don't want to address.
- senthil_rajasek 4y agoImagine explaining why genocide or slavery or misogyny is bad to every internet comment! Which is why I don't engage with colonialism apologists. There is plenty of literature to educate yourselves on that.
- dang 4y agoI'm not sure how to address it, but if I'm reading you and rayiner correctly, you're both trying to make an anticolonial point. He's saying something about India being older and therefore more culturally mature, or something. No? Admittedly the comment should have been less snarky but that's a different issue.
- senthil_rajasek 4y agoThanks for flagging the rayiner comment. rayiner's original comment was defending colonialism. "If it wasn’t for British colonialism, both of us would be subsistence farmers right now instead of on HN." If you read his subsequent comment "forest/indoor plumbing" it is definitely sarcastic and comes off racist. Further down he switches to India being older but does not consider that ancient Indian history is whitewashed in today's world in most western cultures.