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Racial bullying... Pashtuns Jokes and Pakistani Media (Thread)
Racial bullying, a subject alien to most Pakistani’s, is often propagated intentionally or unintentionally by the media industry. No ethnicity in Pakistan has been spared from racial slurs, jokes, and stereotypes but the most affected are the Pashtuns.
In Pakistani movies and dramas, a Pashtun is always given the role of a security guard, shopkeeper, etc. and while these jobs are in no way insulting, the monotonic representation of a Pashtun is.
The Pashtun character is mostly shown completely dumb and with a weird accent of Urdu. The racial bullying doesn’t stop here, Pashtuns are also portrayed as violent, abusive, bearded, and chewing naswar (snuff).
In a country that considers homosexuality a taboo, Pashtun men are often projected as non-straight guys.
This is a clip from Bulbulay, a comedy sitcom watched at every Pakistani household. The character Sher Khan is shown to be a Pashtun man with a weird accent. His wife is wearing a Burqa. And Nabeel makes a joke that what gift can Sher Khan bring except for naswar and explosives.
Jawani phir nai aani, one of the highest-grossing Pakistani movie, shows a character which again is speaking in an accent while carrying a gun as to project the Pashtuns as a violent ethnicity.
This clip from movie Karachi to Lahore shows a Pashtun man standing right behind another character which makes him fearful because well once again the focus is on the orientation stereotype of Pashtuns.
Private media houses can be blamed for racial bullying but they as independent entities can project any idea they want to, however, PTV aired a mushaira in 2017 which contained depicts Pashtuns as smugglers, them smelling like Dumbas and many other stereotypes.
Don’t miss the appreciation of the crowd. Another video from PTV where the poetry is not only read in Pashtun accent but also jokes revolving around certain stereotypes.
The racial bullying doesn’t stop here. Pakistani comedians have propagated their ideas on major platforms across the border. Comedians have used racial slurs, stereotypes about Pashtuns in Indian comedy shows such as, “Hum pathan admi hy hmara ladki se kya kam hy”.
Interestingly there are many parodies of “Pathans”, most coming from Pakistani artists. In this video, the comedian comments on Pashtuns showing interest in *n*l sex. As much as these things are normalized in the rest of the world, Pakistani considers it a major taboo.
Earlier in 2013, one of the biggest mobile operators in Pakistan aired a TV ad that depicts Pashtuns as dull-witted wearing a turban.
There are many and many other such clips but I will end this thread with a clip of Tariq Jameel where Pakistanis speaking improficiency in arabic is compared with Pathans urdu followed by a joke about some Pathan guy. Not to mention that Maulana saheb have followers in millions.
Media thus is arguably a major contributor to the normalization of racist narratives. Racial bullying may be unintentional, but its about time that Pakistani’s realize the presence of racism in our society. Without realizing the racist in us, we cannot expect to make any change.
To all those ppl who are somehow relating it how Pashtuns make fun of Punjabis so it is justified. First, I strongly condemn Pashtuns making fun of other ethnicities. And there is no denial that we all Pakistanis have a racist in us.
Baloch, Sindhi, Punjabis (specially rural Punjab), Baltis, Hazaras, Urdu speakers have all been subjected to racism and there is no denial in that. But the thread was about media projection of Pashtuns who have been most affected of it.
I would love to add clips of how other ethncities have been affected of racism. I guess most ppl missed the point here. I did not intend to blame any ethnicity for this but I just wanted to make a point that we all “Pakistani’s” have a major racist in us.
I had to emphasize on “Pakistani’s” because some were even calling me out as a US agent 
The level of intolerance is unimaginable on twitter.
The level of intolerance is unimaginable on twitter.
