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Worst part is all the desis in the replies telling her they don't find it offensive, and Gandy telling them "you can't give these white people an inch." Just a top to bottom outrage bait grifter.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Post like this make me wish I fell from a coconut tree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I wish the coconut fell on me

susie-nudge

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Damn she's acting like she doesn't even exist in the context of what came before

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Bootlicker does

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Liberal politics is only identity politics. It's never about class.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Am I just not in the know, or is that a UK thing and not an American thing? The first time I ever heard of it being a slur was in relation to UK politics a few years ago. And I grew up in Boston.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

It's more of a south asian thing, of which some live in the UK. It's mostly an in-group thing too, it's their version of "uncle Tom".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

It is not really a widely stigmatized slur because to swathes of the Indian-American community being called white is the opposite of offensive

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm white and I've heard it. Basically when "oreo" got invented so did "twinkie" and "coconut". That being said, I think this is 100% concern trolling.

Not that anyone needs to be stanning Kamala.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh, good thing we shorten the Gay term to "twink" or that could cause some international faux pas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Damn, the glorious explosion of Twinkie cream directly down my throat will never be the same after reading this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've heard "banana" in a similar context here in Australia because I guess Twinkies aren't common.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Also the Lotus is the symbol of the BJP so it's got those associations with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

True she should opt to the lotus and show solidarity to bjp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Isn't that wonder woman?