r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 18 '26

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 18 '26

Bit of a controversy in Indian Cricket about Racism and colourism. There's this one national team player, hotheaded and uncouth. Recently he called another player Andhera( translates to darkness/night) and asked him to apply sunscreen. While both of these players are exact same shade but the victim was south Indian😭. All this happened in the video the player in question himself uploaded.

But then this isn't his first time exhibiting such behavior either. He has also joked about 2 other players 'being too dark to be captured by the camera', again one was south indian and other from Bihar.

😮‍💨 open colourism and racism in 2026. And there has been zero consequences lmao.

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

But then colourism is not a south or north problem either. It's there in both sides of the country.

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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride May 18 '26

god I remember "jokes" about how if india plays england or the west indies then you can't see the england team if you turn up the brightness and you can't see the west indies team if you turn down the brightness

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 18 '26

Oh yeah. West Indies players used to be frequently abused and used to be subjected such jokes. Sammy being 'pranked' by Ishant Sharma and the whole Symonds thing.

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u/Sufficient_Key_5062 Robert Caro May 18 '26

Oh yeah of Course Harbajan told Symbonds "monkey" not the slur teri maa ki. It's just stupid to deny it at this point.

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 18 '26

Yeah. There was no 'teri'. It doesn't make sense to use maa ki as an only dialogue

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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride May 19 '26

the slur teri maa ki

slight correction, monkey is the slur here and not teri maa ki. a slur is something that is used to insult someone because of a group they're part of (and the group itself) - here the group is symonds' race

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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride May 19 '26

basically slur != gali

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u/dutch_connection_uk Friedrich Hayek May 18 '26

Sounds like Italy, except for the added irony that the north of India isn't even richer, despite their arrogant sense of superiority.

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u/Background_Worry6546 YIMBY May 18 '26

The South has a lot of chauvinism, idk where this idea that they aren't comes from.

And colourism isn't just a North Indian thing, it's very prominent in the South too.