How the media demonises south asian men

I did post this before long ago on another account but reddit being reddit something on my account went wrong so here we are

My whole channel is (centre) leftist and covers topics leftists and liberals won’t talk about - including how POC MEN are demonised specifically.

I mostly cover politics. There is not many (none) open leftists who take men's issues seriously. Especially not men of colour. In the UK thetinmen keeps me sane but even then he is white so doesn't get it in sam way (not an attack).

It’s self evident we get it worse than women but no one can EVER say that as women are an ‘oppressed’ group.

Yk despite fact when racist attacks happen it’s nearly always POC men, only men are demonised as sex predators, only men have the creepy and desexualised label (for Asians of all stripes) whereas women have exotic label.

But yet I have to listen to women complain and pretend they have it worse whilst NOTHING is done for us. We’ve been beaten down to ignore blatant discrimination and hate through socialisation, oppressed vs oppressor and male guilt.

Oh and if you complain? “Angry young man” (a real comment I got from a certain POC woman … won’t say who). And worse even other POC men will be nasty.

It's not random that brown men are quite mean to each other. There is no excuse for being an asshole ofc but this is due to a lifetime of socialisation.

In this episode I talk about the demonisation of Desi/south Asian men and how all sides of the political spectrum, and even those who ostensibly are for people like us in the age of diversity, have been complicit.

Desi men have been underrepresented and misrepresented far more egregiously as I see it than any other group, even desi women.

This is the fault of casting directors, editors etc who make these very deliberate choices (who are almost never desi men, not a coincidence). We are either in the news media an oppressed victim of racism or the problem with no in-between.

More or less we are a victim or a wife beating sleazy rapist in the news. That's pretty much it.

In TV and film, it is even more egregious. We are consistently desexualised; shown as socially awkward, misogynistic, nerdy, sexless IT nerds or the villain – terrorists, paedophiles etc.

Even Bend it Like Beckham, written by a desi woman, demonises brown men. It’s an acceptable form of discrimination.

BILB is considered a classic British Asian film. I watched it and thought hold on ... this is just sexist and racist lol?! The only positive straight male figure is a white man. This is crazy. But obviously it's seen as this super progressive diverse film. Brilliant.

It’s accepted and we aren’t even allowed or given an outlet to complain due to collective responsibility because we are classified as an oppressor group.

Apparently even as individuals we are responsible for other desi men or theoretical concepts such as patriarchy.

I have no skeletons in my closet, I have every right to complain. How they can’t see this is blatant racism is laughable and shows how anti-racist and pro-diversity these fake liberals really are.

In fact, me being left wing, pro LGBT, pro abortion etc makes me more progressive statistically than the average brown person man or woman. So, yk, I won't be guilt tripped.

This isn't to excuse brown men. There are problems, they are very mean to one another as a generalisation and esp followers of a certain religion you will get in trouble for mentioning anything bad about can be be very very conservative about women and LGBT rights. But none of these are problems I have. Yet I will be punished for it.

And more to that point - with social conservatism it's always presented as the men as the bigots but nearly ever poll about men and women from the non white world show they basically believe the same thing. It's just due to religion.

An even bigger taboo is how these stereotypes have applied to serious issues such as rape. Eleanor Williams made a false allegation about Asian grooming gangs; I am under no doubt they were more quickly assumed to be guilty due to their race. Why can’t we have a serious conversation about that?

Because that would require seeing us as human ofc.