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Don’t resort to lame insults, you are not going to change the mind of the usual ignorant racists. They love this not quite racist stuff, gives them a chance to be dicks without the repurcussions 😜.
This Twitter post will give you a whole shitload of names from all around the world, including ‘Indian summer’, which I believe came from the Penobscot First Nations tribe:
https://mobile.twitter.com/robgmacfarlane/status/1045191406669758464
This kind of lazy use of English is more offensive than the comment in the OP.
Why, exactly? It’s a far too common, Daily Mail-type response by some people, more often than not white and middle-class, taking an inoffensive remark, and blowing it up out of all proportion because they believe someone, somewhere, might be offended.
Me, I’m seriously offended by plenty of things that are genuinely offensive, like the examples of outright racism in everyday America, where a Black gentleman, looking after his white friends kids for the day, is tailed by some random woman who calls the police. But at least he didn’t get shot for a) being black, or b) being black and breathing.
My response to the original Fb comment, had I seen it, would have to roll my eyes and mutter ‘Seriously? How can someone be that dim?’ Then go and find something more engaging to occupy my time with. I haven’t bothered with Fb for over a year now, although I haven’t actually deleted it, I no longer engage with it, mainly because of this sort of nonsense.
Have a nice day. 🙄
<p>I always thought it was a sub-continent reference from the old colonial days. Clearly I'm just thick.</p><p>Taken to a daft conclusion you may then say ****stani summer. Clearly I'm a closet/semi/outright racist. And thick.</p><p>Or maybe I just like to post crap puns and there was never any agenda.</p>
Indian, Native American, or ****stani person
did they walk into a pub?
are you Jim Davidson?
I reckon Pie is spot on.
I reckon he’s guilty of ranting about people ranting and no better than those he seeks to deride. Although I guess if he didn’t he wouldn’t have got the clicks. So fair enough.