You may remember Gavin McAsshole’s disgusting post about my people and how horribly cruel it was. It left me crying all day, to be tarred at the hands of such a senseless bigot.
You may remember Gavin McAsshole’s disgusting post about my people and how horribly cruel it was. It left me crying all day, to be tarred at the hands of such a senseless bigot. Luckily, the benevolent socialists over at Love Music Hate Racism threatened Platform until they took down that revolting article. Thankful to have my dignity and security handed to me by a third party, I sent them an appreciative note, and if you are even remotely South Asian, I recommend you do the same. Send your thank you letter to Info@LMHRFestivals.com.
Here’s the email I wrote to my hero, Lee Billingham of Love Music Hate Racism, followed by the courageous letter he originally sent to Platform:
Dear Lee Billingham,
As an Indian person and all around music lover/racism hater, I would like to thank you for forcing Platform to take down that pathetic, disgusting article, “I Love P*kis — 10 Reasons Why” by Gavin McInnes. There is no doubt that McInnes, being a typical ignorant, no doubt toothless Yankee, does not understand the virulent history and weight of the P-word, nor does he appreciate individuals of South Asian descent.
As a prominent national anti-racism organization, I know that Love Music Hate Racism has my best interest in mind when they take action to threaten a small, recently launched online magazine such as Platform with a smear campaign. It reaffirms a notion that I hold to be central to both liberty and tolerance — that is, no one is too small to be bullied.
I would just like to thank you once more for standing up for the little brown guy. It is all too often that a meek Indian, such as myself, is attacked by a bigoted white man and needs another white man to come to the rescue. And it’s good to know that you Brits, with your history of looking out for us Indians, have not let up the burden.
In short, thank you for protecting me.
Sincerely,
Arvind Dilawar
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And here’s the original email Lee Billingham of Love Music Hate Racism sent to Platform:
To: Platform
Rather than just unsubbing, we wanted to let you know that a prominent national anti-racism organisation is unsubscribing to your “magazine” because of the pathetic “I Love Pakis” article (http://www.readplatform.com/i-love-pakis-10-reasons-why/).
In a society where racism is still a major problem, and particularly for something published in the UK where the word “paki” is spat out *unironically* as a prelude to racist violence by BNP or EDL supporters, this article is stupid and irresponsible. It repeats the worst sort of racist stereotypes, particularly the racists’ favourite of calling anyone from the Indian subcontinent a “Paki” and gets its defence in early with the predictable jibe that anyone who takes offence is doing so because of how “politically correct” Britain is! And an equally predictable response that, hey, y’know, we were being ironic, ISN’T going to wash. If it was irony it was stupid, pointless and misplaced for the reasons stated earlier. However, it just reads like a genuine piece, with the flimsy justification that the US is, like, more relaxed about racist language, whose function will be to make those already complacent about racism feel it’s perfectly acceptable to use these racist epithets that we have fought for decades to make taboo and unacceptable.
If you want a campaign launched against your racist “irony”, you can do nothing. If you want to avoid that, you’ll take the idiot thing down and issue a genuine, unironic apology to all those you’ve offended. Your choice.
Lee Billingham
Love Music Hate Racism
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See what I mean? Total white knight status. So send him an email letting him know it: Info@LMHRFestivals.com.
Looks like threatening people with lawsuits is this guy’s bread and butter. What a passive aggressive pussy.
http://socialistunity.com/?p=5748
NO FAT CHICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m East Indian and I thought the article was funny. He actually made Indians seem cool which is rare. and didn’t he explain at the beginning how inaccurate the word is? That was the whole point. sending Lee an email now.
“Black man’s got his problems but he’ll learn to deal with it / Doesn’t need help from you white liberal shits / If you take a look at the way things really stand / you’d see we’re all just niggers to the rulers of this land.”
-Penny Rimbaud (Crass)
“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham,
because they make it their business to fight against something which they
do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at
the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which
those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and
those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought
to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our
‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue.”
-George Orwell 1943
“Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist, or Nazi or anti-Semitic. The association will, after enough repetition, become fact in the public mind.”
-Frankfurt School (who brought Marxism to the West) adopting the Moscow Central Committee dictum in 1942
Is it me or is that the most redundant name for an organization ever? What about
Love Peace Hate War
Love Fridays Hate Mondays
Love Love Hate Hate
Love Art Hate Meanness
Love Booze Hate Hangovers
Love Dishing it Out Hate Taking It
“why cant we all just get along?”
Rodney King
P.S. SB party here I come!
I’ve noticed that when the average dickweed’s life is awash in mediocrity and failure, they can always take up a career in professional anti-racism to trick themselves into feeling special.
LETHAL BIZZ!! POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I say Platform are pussies. Fuck Lee Billingham seriously. If you don’t get it, just get the Fuck out! The article was the contrary of racism and pointed out how retarded it is. If Fuck Music Love Racism got offended by it too bad Freedom of speech! Oh wait, I guess the won hugh?
“we have fought for decades to make taboo” ha ha ha ha ha ha
what a a bunch of fags.
Gavin, you are a super gay fag. I agree with the Crass quote, but that doesn’t mean that your article should have been written in the first place. You can’t say something racist and then tell white people that they have no right to be outraged about it.
Also, Arv, what’s the Paki weiner situation? I’ve banged a ton of Indian girls and they were all tight like Japanese girls. Everyone knows that Japanese dudes have small dicks but that’s okay for the Japanese girls because they are ill-equipped to handle big boners. Basically what I’m asking if that correlation exists between the sexual organs of Paki/Indian people. I’ve tried to look at Indian porn on the internet but it’s always so blurry and then I get lost in the moment and masturbate.
Is that Lee in the adidas jacket? Kinda looks like Corky Thatcher.
gavin w/ good quotes. how come they only play cricket and not soccer? i wants to know
Arv nailing it
Hey Arvind, isn’t not knowing the difference between a Canadian and an American the exact same as not knowing the difference between a Pakistani and an Indian?
And isn’t the ‘typical ignorant, no doubt toothless Yankee’ remark exactly the sort of generalization you were crying about Gavin doing?
Love Booze Hate Hangovers
Now that’s an organization worth joining.
@reo sppedwagon
Wow. apparently this post went over someone’s head.
“It is all too often that a meek Indian, such as myself, is attacked by a bigoted white man and needs another white man to come to the rescue. And it’s good to know that you Brits, with your history of looking out for us Indians, have not let up the burden.” This was the best part.
@tommy gun, they play both cricket and soccer at the same frequency. since there are much less countries who play cricket, those countries stand out for playing that sport.
Jesus of fucking Christ land, is that Bellendingham in the snap? Ouch. Love Downers Hate Racism. Zoom.
This Lee Billingham is obviously a massive cock ring. But…
@ GAVIN
2 things Gavin. Firstly: I don’t think you can quite blame the Frankfurt school for ‘bringing Marxism to the West’. I kinda think Marx and Engels (Germans), writing in Germany, France, Belgium and London might have done that 60 years before… Though I guess by ‘West’ you really mean ‘America’, but even then Daniel De Leon was well ahead of any of the Frankfurt School.
Secondly: THAT QUOTE YOU INCORRECTLY ATTRIBUTE TO THE ‘MOSCOW CENTRAL COMMITTEE DICTUM IN 1942′ (WHICH DOESN’T EVEN EXIST, RETARD) IS FAKE. GOOGLE ‘THEY NEVER SAID IT: A BOOK OF FAKE QUOTES, MISQUOTES AND MISLEADING ATTRIBUTIONS’ AND GO TO ‘BOOKS’, THEN READ PAGE FROM THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 17.
Oopsy! How many fucking years have you been reeling that one off…?
I suggest a new word, one to describe a blog bigot; bloggot.
Re: Indian Wieners
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm
fuck cricket that shit sux
I don’t think anyone noticed Arv’s subtle satire in the letter sent to ‘Love Music Hate Racism’. Lol
He was intentionally being incorrect.
I’m scotch-irish and I thought the article was spot on. Whether you’re tan or brown or mocha or sandy colored it perfectly captured the essence of what it means to be a Paki. Take the term “Paki” and wear it proud Mr. Billingham. I mean does India and Pakistan really not have much in common? No! You’re both on same shitty side of the planet!
so wait… first you create a dumb article with a headline intended to get under people’s skin and then complain and drop some faggoty ass quotes when it apparently does get under someone’s skin, right? Way to make everything about your lame ass.
im from dirka-dirka-stan and i dont find it offensive.
White Knight? You a misc brah?
The best part of this article was the article. Good commentary, too. Looks like the Vice interns took a 4-day weekend like me. Someone better shotgun one for me tonight.
isn’t any publicity good publicity in entertainment? why did platform take the article down? a smear campaign probably only would have helped them. wait, nevermind. advertisers. fuck. the narrow-minded win again. i think that they will always win because most people in the world are also narrow minded and therefore will agree with them.
i love you much, gavin mcinnes. it hurts so bad, it just does.
All this shit is confusing. At the end of the day, is it still funny to hate diaper headed curry niggers? Christ, I sure hope so!
streetcarnage:1 idiots:0
“Secondly: THAT QUOTE YOU INCORRECTLY ATTRIBUTE TO THE ‘MOSCOW CENTRAL COMMITTEE DICTUM IN 1942? (WHICH DOESN’T EVEN EXIST, RETARD) IS FAKE. GOOGLE ‘THEY NEVER SAID IT: A BOOK OF FAKE QUOTES, MISQUOTES AND MISLEADING ATTRIBUTIONS’ AND GO TO ‘BOOKS’, THEN READ PAGE FROM THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 17.”
They didn’t have to say it, they DID IT you twat.
‘Paki’ is pretty offensive it the UK – it’s not been ‘re-appropriated’ in the same way that it seems to be in the US. Indians here do not refer to each other as such, and it’s only used in an offensive way, like fag, queer, nigger, wog, chink or any other homophobic or racist slur. I like the article, it seems to be more of a intercontinental translation issue.
I think that is a load of shite.. I mean for fuck sake, It was clearly a fucking joke.