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It’s interesting to watch people get more racist against Indians. There aren’t as many Indians here as nigs and they do way less crime but it’s much more acceptable to dislike and criticize Indians than blacks.
Part of that is the result of the pro black/ anti racist propaganda that makes anti black racism anathema - but I think there’s more to it. I think on some subconscious level, blacks don’t get categorized as fully human. They’re obviously and fundamentally different - and less than us. Like animals at the zoo you can see yourself in them enough to pity them but not enough to really feel threatened unless they escape their enclosures.
With Indians on the other hand, they’re more comparable which makes them somehow even more disgusting in an uncanny valley way. They take white collar jobs. It‘ll be a cold day in hell before my job gets outsourced to Africa, but it’s disturbingly realistic to imagine it getting outsourced (or worse insourced) to India.