Islamabad’s policy of deporting all undocumented foreigners will have widespread repercussions.
  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Even Pakistan expelling them while Turkey welcoming both Pakistanis and Afghans and also Syrians.

        • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eeEnglish
          204·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know whether it ever was, but it definitely got co-opted by racists as a slur in the UK. A pretty bad one too, I gather. Whether it’s been reclaimed, I couldn’t say. Personally, I’d steer very well clear of it.

          • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
            1714·
            1 year ago

            I did not know that. Fixed it. So “Pakis” is offensive but “Pakistanis” is not right? Or should I call them “people from Pakistan” or “Pakistani-American” lol I don’t get these SJW things 🤦‍♂️

            • Deceptichum@kbin.social
              132·
              1 year ago

              Not referring to a group of people as a slur isn’t really an “SJW” (are you stuck in 2016?) thing.

          • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Wild, in parts of the US that means booze store or corner store that sells booze. Shortened from Package Store. Think its spelled differently though? Could be wrong.

  • zuhayr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    Because they had enough of taking care of the problems created by the US of A

    • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Whoa now, Rudyard Kipling wrote Afghanistan poems. Don’t you put all that evil on us. Of course, like Martin regarding the LA riots, I ain’t gonna lie, I got some shit.