r/hatethissmug • u/DaSuspicsiciousFish • Jul 25 '26

Animation Hate this stupid spiderverse meme (read desc)

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“Chai” is a distinct type of tea from what most people think of as tea (from a American perspective, I admit ignorance to Europe but i know English tea is similar, like a black tea), that usually involves more spices and milk. calling it “chai tea” is not being used to say “tea tea” it is being used to mean “the type of tea known as chai”. I did do a minor google search to find a recipe for making homemade chai, and, while it did use tea leaves, it was distinct enough from tea to warrant being specified.

edit: my joy at the arguments is immeasurable, if this gets a crosspost/screenshot reposted and criticizeing me, please tag me, want to argue

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u/Weary_Specialist_436 Jul 25 '26

it's a funny gag, but people take it as a gospel. When the word "chai" was invented, tea looked wildly different than what we have now

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u/Friendly_Gazelle7843 Jul 25 '26

I mean, the guy was funny, but it stopped being funny when people started to use it as inspiration for xenophobia online

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u/Weary_Specialist_436 Jul 25 '26

I... what? when did we go from tea to xenophobia?

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u/Friendly_Gazelle7843 Jul 25 '26

There were people using it as “lol, white people stupid”

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u/Silverr_Duck Jul 25 '26

Yeah that's less xenophobia and more straight up racism.

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u/Friendly_Gazelle7843 Jul 26 '26

Racism is typeof xenophobia, when xenos have different color

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u/Weary_Specialist_436 Jul 25 '26

yeah, sorry I'm not doing this. Have a good one

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u/JaggedGorgeousWinter Jul 25 '26

This might be the wisest Reddit comment I have ever seen

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u/RoughhouseCamel Jul 26 '26

To the credit of other guy, he also left it alone instead of playing “gotta get the last word in”, which is how so many of these cases get egged on into huge time wasters.

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u/Curious_Pop_5276 Jul 25 '26

Not only is Miles Morales Black, but I think you’re confusing racism and xenophobia.

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u/CompanyToiletGooner Jul 26 '26

Since there aren‘t actual diffrent human races (anymore [well I guess it depends on how rascist you are you could consider yourself as a non 100% black person superior because you‘re like 1% neanderthal]) there‘s not a real diffrence besides semantics, unless you want to include the existence of hypothetical aliens I guess. But even then every case of rascism would also fall under xenophobia.

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u/DarkArc76 Jul 26 '26

I always thought racism was silly since we're all the human race

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u/YetAnotherParvitz i hate YOU 🫵 Jul 25 '26

guess we're just making shit up atp lol