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hussyknee · 4 months ago

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It's cool if you find it funny. In South Asian culture it's more like *shots fired*

HEY AMERICANS. "COCONUT" IS NOT A SLUR. It's an insult brown people use to call other brown people when they're acting like a white person. Any person of colour can use it, including Black people. It's free speech, not hate speech. Harris's supporters use it because of her anecdote that became a meme, which is fine because it isn't an insult in that context, and only amuses South Asians at worst. You can do whatever you want with it but stop saying it's a slur when fucking Rishi Sunak literally had a South Asian woman arrested for calling his band of merry brown Tory demons "coconuts". The only reason someone would call it a slur is extreme butthurt.

Also the lotus is a symbol of both India's ethnofascist BJP and Sri Lanka's SLPP parties. Please reject that as an alternative as well.

Stop spreading misinformation before you give white people the idea to turn it into a slur. Reblog this.

#i got bullied in school being called a 'coconut bc i was so good at english that sinhalese became my second language when i was in grade 2 #but now i'm years into decolonial study and can see the real fuckin coconuts #they're legit ashamed of their ancestry #coconut is too mild an insult to mean 'race traitor'#but it was really funny that rishi sunak got so butthurt at another south asian woman holding a placard with his head on a #tree that he had her arrested for hate speech #cementing that he and his brown tories would be associated with coconuts forever #i don't want aunty top cop war criminal to wear it with pride #south asians stop dickriding white supremacy challenge (impossible)#glad you like my blog! :)

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