South Asian Women Shut Down Azealia Banks’ Hateful Comment By Sharing Beautiful Selfies
South Asian women are taking to social media in response to Azealia Banks Twitter rant [Photo: Instagram/anchalmua]
ICYMI rapper Azealia Banks went on a pretty darned horrendous Twitter rant aimed at Zayn Malik earlier this week. It was all to do with her believing his video, Like I Would, was a rip off of her own work.
The full on melt down contained some pretty nasty comments including one particularly choice remark referring to Zayn’s part-Pakistani lineage by calling him a “hairy curry scented bitch.” Nice!
But instead of reacting with hate, the desi community who saw Azealia’s unpleasantries decided to flip it around to turn it into a sort of celebration of their heritage. Suddenly, the phrase that was meant to be a slur became a source of pride and the hashtag #CurryScentedBitch trended globally as people used it to proudly caption their beautiful selfies with it.
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This doesn’t mean you’re off the hook Azealia (Twitter doesn’t think so either as her account has been suspended), but this has to be a better way of responding to racial slurs than hitting back with hate.
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