(April 27, 2016 at 3:28 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: There is a reason why so many people with brown skin get lumped together and get abbreviated as "Pakis"
I think people who call anyone vaguely brown a "paki" tend to be of such low education and exposure to anyone not white that it loses all offensiveness tbh.
I've seen Non-Muslim Indians (who I can always tell a mile away aren't Pakistanis) called it, members of my family (Maltese) called it, even my Brazilian friend (black, but fair-skinned with straightened hair) got call it. They're seriously too fucking numbskulled to tell a Pakistani apart from a non-Pakistani.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
