Sense of Non sense

We cannot deny the immense power of influencing the opinions that social media has, and certainly, that is the reasons why we are supposed to be extra careful while posting something or rather anything on any digital platform, be it facebook, twitter or your private website. The point here that I am trying to make is that – whatever you put on the internet stays there, you might delete it later but it stays in the minds of people like an embossed stamp, which is tough or nearly impossible to erase.

It was yesterday morning when I came across a highly narrow minded, regressive and aggressive article posted on www.returnofking.com – 5 reasons why not to date an Indian girl. However, I somewhere expected that either the title is sarcastically designed or maybe there is an attempt to sound funny but this came out like a shock to me to read that the article was neither funny nor sarcastic, it was literal and filled with racism.

We have always believed that maybe issues like racism, lies in the minds of illiterate but it lands me in bafflement to see how an educated man with writing skills of no less quality, writes something so regressive and illogical. Not just that the five points stated were offensive, but there was an unfair generalization with the touch of absent-mindedness.

The points ranged from Indian women are unattractive, prudes and self-loathing to them being feminist and mentally ill. Not only this, the author even used words like “menu” to denote an Indian girl and added that an Indian girl has a coke can figure and ad genes. This makes me question the mental health of the writer who has attempted a clearly shabby picture of Indian women through his rearward thought process.

However, while everyone found it offensive including me, an amplified lesson came out of this particular incident. We, the young generation of the era have the power of pens in our hand which in a way talks about our freedom to express but what we consign to oblivion is the responsibility that this ‘power of expression’ brings on to us. Solely because the account on social networking site is mine, or a particular website is mine, I cannot put any random theory across in order to mislead people. Off course, I have a right to have my own set of beliefs but beliefs that are counterrevolutionary in nature, beliefs that are plainly generalization, beliefs that are not tried and tested and lastly the beliefs that are shrunken in nature should be think twice-thrice before publishing it anywhere on social media.

For those of you who still did not come across the most offensive and disgusting article that had ever posted on social media – here is the link - http://www.returnofkings.com/51395/5-reasons-why-you-should-not-date-indian-girls.

Do not criticize because it has done amply, just read, and learn about the mistake that you must never ever commit or repeat on the social media platforms.

Remember – Social media is for you but it is not yours.