On Friday (12th July), the official X (formerly Twitter) handle of ‘The Sopranos‘ stirred the hornet’s nest for making racist and derogatory remarks towards the Indian community.
In a tweet posted on the micro-blogging platform, the American TV series referred to Indians as ‘mother fuckers’ and ‘street-shitting ragheads.’ The caption wrote – ‘Motherfucking fucking–Street-shitting raghead Indian fucks.’
The official X handle of ‘The Sopranos’ tried to pass off the derogatory remark as ‘real dialogue’ from the TV series. However, one user was quick to point out that such remarks were not part of the show.
An X user (@SaiyanWhoKills) stated that the character featured in the screenshot did not say anything about Indians. He had also uploaded a short video clip of the scene to substantiate his point.
In the original clip, the character Tony Soprano was heard saying, “Motherfucking fucking — Fucking dreams, Jesus Christ.”
Elons Twitter is insane a “Sopranos” account pretending that Tony actually said this just to get more checkmarks in his replies being racist aight bro
— EasyMoneySniper (@SaiyanWhoKills) July 12, 2024
Obviously yeah Tony is racist and he even calls Indians “dotheads” but this dude is just weird https://t.co/KA1poP5VTQ pic.twitter.com/1jpqveTpk8
As such, it becomes clear that the X handle of The Sopranos deliberately posted the racist message to mock Indians. To understand the context behind the sudden tweet, we need to look into the background of the controversy.
The Background of the Controversy
The official X handle of The Sopranos made the disturbing remarks in response to a harmless tweet posted by an Indian user ‘Dhanwal'(@himankkumar1).
“This Twitter page absolutely sucks. You should hire someone who doesn’t just post random screenshots from the entire series. Unfollowed,” Dhanwal wrote.
The Sopranos thereafter dubbed the entire Indian community ‘mother fuckers’ and ‘street-shitting ragheads.’
The controversial tweet by the popular American TV series promoted other racists, Islamists and white supremacists to mock Indians as ‘pajeets’ and other dehumanising terms.
OpIndia had previously reported how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology was being used by extremist groups to spread hate and propaganda against Indians, especially the Hindu community.
