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I watched most of the film back when Kulak did the review of it, my impression is that it is cherry-picked but the parts that are cherry-picked are true enough. The parts that are true mostly relate to the lowest castes in rural India, although it's arguably an indictment of the entire civilization. High caste Indians though are clearly able to immigrate to the West and not engage in the degenerate behaviors like those portrayed in the film.
The biggest takeaway of the film is that Indians are fundamentally not a sympathetic people, to be charitable. The clannish, nepotistic, sometimes antagonistic behavior of Jews is tolerated because, on some level, the West is sympathetic to them after a long history together, Abrahamic ties, and yes Hollywood propaganda especially. That, and they are White-passing and talented so their engagement in that behavior is often inscrutable and has plausible deniability. The Indians don't have any of that sympathy, lack subtlety, and are not white-passing, so if they come here and act that way it is going to rub people very much the wrong way. The Indians coming here to draft on the preexisting Silicon Valley culture industry, which they did not build, and bringing with them a big dose of nepotism and Hindu nationalism, that is going to trigger a "Racism" response in people who have been thoroughly trained to have sympathy for Blacks and Jews. And then documentaries like this basically validate the racism.
As to whether the film will be important- well I've only heard about it through Kulak's writings and nowhere else. But I would agree that Indians seem poised to reintroduce racism into the Western psyche as greater contact only seems to lead to growing the backlash and a willing audience for things like this.
You got reported for making it about the Jews again. I noticed it too - for real, dude, can you go one post (without using ChatGPT to generate some nonsense - don't do that again) without turning the topic to Jews? Like, I know that's your only reason for being here, but put some more effort into engaging with the actual topic. You have been told repeatedly to stop your single-issue posting, because you have become singularly obnoxious about it, and every time we ding you for it, you whine that you're being persecuted because we are protecting Jewish interests or something. When the reality is that every time you post, whether it's about Palestine or India or Japan or literally any country on Earth, surprise! It's actually about Jews.
This is just a warning, because it's been a while since your last tempban, but considering your usual pattern is to dip in, do a little Joo-posting, and dip out again when the rebuttals start piling up, I am warning you that this cycle is tiresome and will not continue. Everyone has their causes and their hobbyhorses and their topics of greatest interest to them, but most regulars can at least talk about more than one thing, and not insert their obsession into every single thread.
This warning doesn't make any sense, previously you all made the standard for the "single-issue posting" rule by looking through the first page of someone's comments, and if they were all about one topic they have broken the rule. I've been posting about a bunch of different issues, I am not single issue posting.
Jews are relevant to this discussion because we are discussing the reaction of Westerners to a new type of Immigrant. There are parallels between Indian and Jewish behavior and significant differences, which are relevant in a discussion about racist backlash to the immigration of that group to the West.
It seems like you've dropped the pretense of "single-issue posting" now and you just don't want me to talk about Jews, even in a comment where it's a point of comparison with another immigrant group. I am not single-issue posting, this is terrible moderation.
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This reminds of something that happened in 2021 on Twitter. I think it speaks to your point almost exactly. I pulled this directly from a website that talks about it:
On September 26th, 2021, Twitter[2] user LILAVYVERT quote tweeted a TikTok video shared via a tweet[3] posted two days prior. The video shows a nightclub somewhere in India where many young, Indian people are dancing to "When that one song that comes on in the club." LILAVYVERT quote tweeted it, using the phrase "I know it smell crazy in there". The tweet (shown below) received roughly 51,600 likes over the course of one month.
LILAVYVERT's tweet, however, also received roughly 23,700 quote tweets over the course of one month. The quote tweets mostly revolved around LILAVYVERT's statement allegedly being racist. LILAVYVERT received the most amount of backlash from people of Indian descent. For instance, Twitter[4] user @pinkfr1day tweeted, "they going slur for slur in the quotes wow" and received roughly 22,600 likes. This tweet commented on and poked fun at the Indians and the African-Americans in the quote tweets and replies being racist or derogatory to each other.
The sheer volume of racist tweets coming from Indians was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Since certain speech on online was pretty heavily policed at that time, being able to see those tweets making their rounds was very cathartic. It's like the powers that be at Twitter couldn't handle it all. It was hilarious because the pure unfiltered racist vitriol coming from some of these people was so beyond what was normally accused of "racism" in the West that people were borderline speechless. It's precisely their lack of subtlety and the willingness of Westerners to tolerate it that aligns with your point.
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Indians hae absolutely zero qualms calling for mass rapes, genocides, doxxings or other activities, even right now you have twitter users claiming that newton stole calculus and that aryans never invaded, whilst simultaneously being happy that Muslims are being called out for rapes but also in the same breath supporting the said rapes since they don't like whites after the racist memes post h1b.
I always joke that Indian girls are far more hbd pilled than spandrell because I've seen how they talk about this stuff, it's caustic to say the least. Racism and even casteism isn't a big no no unless you're a part of the white collar classes.
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I literally don't think I've ever heard a white person say anything racist about Pakistanis, unless they were an actor playing a role. As far as I can recall, 100% of the racist statements about Pakistanis I've heard were spoken by Indians.
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