Recently, Lauren Frayer, a reporter for NPR in India, said that "at first glance, I thought this was India" when he forwarded a scene of a mess at the scene of the Los Angeles train robbery.
This sentence immediately angered Indian netizens, who posted "anti-black", posted pictures of American vagrants encamped in concentration, dirty and messy streets, and imitated Ferrell's tone of saying " At first glance , I thought it was the United States ; if you look closely, yo is true."
On January 14, Ferrell, a correspondent for NPR in India, a nonprofit media organization in the United States, retweeted a tweet that said that "I have always heard of frequent train robberies in Los Angeles, so I went to Lincoln Heights to find out." All you can see are packages that have been robbed. Amazon Express, UPS packages, unused COVID-19 test kits, bait...", with a map of the scene attached.
However, Ferrell, who was born in New York, faced with negative news from his country, forwarded the caption "At first glance, I thought this was India." This comment immediately triggered the dissatisfaction of Indian netizens.
"Before the next tweet, can you use your brain?"
After being questioned, on Jan. 16, Freire tweeted: "I've deleted this tweet because it's not sensitive enough (a bit hurtful). The article was accompanied by a screenshot of the deleted tweet, and this wave of deleted but original content operations made Indian netizens angry.
@The Hawk Eye, an Indian blogger who likes to hang up "anti-India" information, shelled that this is not the first time that the non-profit NPR and its correspondents in India have incited "anti-India" sentiment.
Indian lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha called out to Freire, posting the explanation along with a screenshot of the original text, "Showing that you are a man who will never be insensitive, never a rational, unbiased journalist." ”
In this regard, Freire explained that she was only complying with npr's rules, and NPR required employees to be transparent about the content deleted, so she posted a screenshot, not to further offend, but to explain what she deleted and why she deleted.
For this clarification, Indian netizens do not buy it.
"Ladies, wake up, it's the 21st century and you can't fool us. Your last tweet already showed your idea, and that's not good. ”
"'Sensitive' means 'you made a mistake because you didn't expect us to be so emotionally fragile,' rather than acknowledging your racist ideas and that you came from a country fraught with third world problems."
"Instead of heartfelt regret, you chose to post a screenshot of a deleted tweet, which means you're still numb."
At the same time, Indian netizens began to fight back with the "Ferrer sentence" relay.
Indian director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri posted four dirty street scenes in a row, with the caption"At first glance, I thought it was America; on closer inspection, I realized that it was indeed America." ”
Someone retweeted the tweet of American host Adam Carolla, and the tracks of the California train in the picture were in a mess, and Indian netizens said: "At first glance, I guessed right!" It's California. ”
There are also Indian netizens who hack the United States at the same time, pulling on Pakistan, "At first glance I thought it was Pakistan, but wait, the result is New York." ”
Even when the satirical website Madhouse Magazine previously ridiculed San Francisco's problem of people going to the toilet on the street, the accompanying picture of the fake news released by Indian netizens was also used by Indian netizens, who said that California passed a law that allowed people to change sides and pull on the street (that is, east-west streets, and fallen people can defecate on the south side of the road on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the other time on the north side), and the caption of Indian netizens was: You guessed it, this is California! ”
Indian billionaire Arun Pudur directly threw a blank-and-fill question, "At first glance, I thought it was __", and invited Freir to fill in the blank, in addition to the street toilet picture, he also accompanied a news map of a California homeless camp.
In this wave of "anti-black" camps, there were also netizens who took the opportunity to amway India, who forwarded a promotional video saying: "At first glance, I thought it was India, but it is actually an incredible India." ”
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