Originally posted by: naadanmasakalli
Also when I say desi celebs It means all indian/pakistani/ film/tv wale. It's just too eyeroll worthy for me caz apne desh main jo ho hota rahe lekin doosre ke phade main number banane ke liye zaroor ghusna hai. It's the same with any incident that happens in European nation or USA sab uske liye bade dukhte hain like the stupid notredam burning for example but apna jitna marzi heritage/lifeless ho jaaye it goes past their sight
This. Exactly. I'm including the entire desi/south-asian community in this. Matlab there are rampant issues with racism/casteism in that entire desi diaspora so with what muh will people now suddenly act like they understand black lives matter? Matlab when we all grow up in these countries, do we even realize how much racism is ingrained in our societies, our movies? Even now blackface is used as a means of "laughter" in many bolly movies or tv shows......and these very people now want to turn around and pretend "solidarity" cuz the issue is now front and center?
And again, this is nothing personal against any of these actors....most of them are clueless and just piggybacking on whatever hashtag of the day they can find anyways but just generally speaking.....this kind of wannabe activism is just irritating.
Yeah for some reason, acting "woke" about things that happen in the west just seems so much easier for folks than confronting deep rooted issues in desi society.....so many divisions happening on the basis of religion, caste, skin color, race.....what about that? Where are the daily hashtags for that? Nowhere.....cuz you see, most of us sitting here typing on our laptops are the privileged ones who barely realize the tip of our own privilege....how many of us are even consciously aware that even being marginally fair skinned and educated puts us in a privileged bubble where we are rarely touched by oppression? Heck, most of us are comfortably upper caste without ever being aware of it because we never step a foot outside the social gatherings of our community bubble....wohi weddings, wohi functions....toh phir waise bhi baahar ki duniya ka kaise pata chalega? Through bollywood?.....where 99% of actors are all gore chitte upper caste people as well? lol.....it's a bubble within a bubble and most of us never realize it.....no?

i refuse to believe this was made up nah no nada. Good times
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