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Against to For

here is a sentence which is like this Madrassi or Madrasi is an ethnic slur used against people of South India...... I think we should change against to for. Use of against gives sense of negativity. Please give your suggestions. --Onef9day (talk) 12:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Racist website being promoted in this article

The violently racist and anti-Semitic website, countercurrents.org, set up by disgruntled left-wing Indian NRI's in the US, is being actively promoted by it's supporters in this article as a Reliable Source. WP Policies clearly forbid the use of partisan, religious or extremist websites as sources for anything other than articles about their own organizations.

Countercurrents" promotes Conspiracy Theories by American Neo-Nazi activist "Wendy Campbell" that a "secret conspiracy of Jews" were behind 9/11 [1]
Here, the website promotes the conspiracy theory that a secret cabal of Jews and Hindus were behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks [2][3].59.160.210.68 (talk) 14:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

if you think use of countercurrents.org as Reliable Source is objectionable then you can complaint to admin Abecedare or SpacemanSpiff. currently you can't remove fact tags as such. --Onef9day (talk) 14:29, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

lol woopiepedia is full of third world Indian leftist garbage if it links to genocidal liars and violent racists such as the third-world shit-mongers of "countercurrents.org". Unlike you woopiepedia losers, I actually have a job and a life and do not have time to waste touting loser leftist propaganda on trashopedia. Keep your countercurrents.org link if you want. It only serves to destroy whatever little credibility woopiepedia had to begin with.59.160.210.68 (talk) 14:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

madrasi is used against south indians, not people from madras

the word is an ethnic slur and should be treated as such, an ethic slur against south indians. it seems like user Georgethedragonslayer wants to revert all mentions of it as an ethnic slur even though it is a well known slur which is not used to refer to south indians anymore, and certainly not to refer to people from madras SourceIsOpen (talk) 14:52, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is not a 'slur' nor any of the sources treat it as a slur. A 100s of years old subject like this has not encouraged any reliable sources to say otherwise. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 06:12, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are many, many sources which treat it as such, e.g. [this](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/infosys-ceo-referred-to-colleagues-as-madrasis-claim-whistleblowers-2120511): "Infosys Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh allegedly referred to independent directors D Sundaram and DN Prahlad as "Madrasis" -- a slur often used to mock those from southern states" SourceIsOpen (talk) 07:10, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]