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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)The previous management was not able to generate enough income to pay the bills for the expenses of running 2ch. Previously I allowed some autonomy to them. During that time my name has been slandered. The ability for 2ch to generate enough income to stay open was damaged. I hope that with proper management that 2ch can recover.
And like, I guess it's just a newer sort of theme that I've been seeing in this, like, recent wave of online hate towards South Asians. Another thing that I've been seeing is, I guess they have a new slur for us. Uh, 'Pajeets'? RUMNEEK JOHAL: Yeah. 'Jeet' or 'Pajeet.' Um. This, this kind of originated to make fun of Indian names -- which often have suffixes, '-jeet' being one of them -- but it then became, like, this trope of a quintessential Indian man. And again, like you said, some of these AI images or memes paint, paint them as very sinister, very scary looking, very unclean, very dirty. Often I've seen, even on social media, of saying the 'Jeets' or the 'Pajeets' need to go home. Or in, in a more horrible scenario I've seen even, you know, a news article be posted where a South Asian or Sikh man has died in a car crash or something. And the replies on social media are horrible. And we see, again, almost just a vocal and visible, bold celebration of this. And again, this deployment of the term 'Jeets' and 'Pajeets.'
"Pajeet" is also used, referring to a derogatory made-up Indian name originating on 4chan in 2015, along with several other similar, though sometimes lesser known, racist terms. Plenty of commenters resented "pajeet immigrants," described as "barely literate third worlder[s]," for "replac[ing]" striking workers in the tech industry. One Canadian user on the /pol/ board claimed the "jeet situation" in Canada was bad, and that they planned to "leave this dump" because of South Asian immigrants. Gab, a "free speech" platform with a similar interface to Twitter, saw hate speech against South Asians rise from 197 posts in January 2023 to 691 the next year, representing a staggering 251 percent increase. Comments include calling South Asians "pajeet chimps" and "paki scum" while leaning into derogatory stereotypes such as saying "pajeet still smell."
Pajeet: An ethno-religious slur referring to Indians, and more specifically Hindus.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Pajeet is a racist slur in the West to mock Sikhs who often have names ending with "jeet"
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)First seen on 4Chan, The term "pajeet" is an ethnic slur, coined as a derisive imitation of Indian names. Typically, pajeet is used to describe Indians on the Internet — and, by default — Hindus. John Earnest, the white supremacist shooter of the Chabad Synagogue in San Diego, 2019, had referenced "pajeets" in this manifesto. This slur has also been used by white supremacists in white nationalist podcasts in reference to violent, murderous fantasies about Indians.
Users from the messageboards Reddit – a sprawling series of communities – and 4chan – largely the trolls in the internet's basement – hurled false accusations
The previous management was not able to generate enough income to pay the bills for the expenses of running 2ch. Previously I allowed some autonomy to them. During that time my name has been slandered. The ability for 2ch to generate enough income to stay open was damaged. I hope that with proper management that 2ch can recover.
Users from the messageboards Reddit – a sprawling series of communities – and 4chan – largely the trolls in the internet's basement – hurled false accusations
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