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Unless you aren't aware most central asians aren't privy to us, and repeatedly watching them tell us they don't like us should be enough for some of us to stop interacting with them. And it's also not like we cared about them in the past (us genzs I swear). No matter what you post it will always be them trying to prove how south asian we are, (but also watch what happens when somebody tries calling them east asian). They also try their best to blame the disaster Afghanistan's in solely on us Pashtuns, they just view us as scapegoats, and that's the only time these people will ever mention us.

I have also noticed how gaslit a lot of Pashtuns have genuinely become, they ignore how racist these central asian minorities are towards us. It's like they're a bunch of zombies trying to prove they're not racist. Just ask any Hazara, Tajik, or Uzbek what their opinion on Kochyan is. My family is part nomadic and the racism they experienced especially the women is nuts, the women in my family were called kafirs, dirty, and all the slew of racist terms they have coined for us. They used to view Pashtun gand as some dirty, kalaiwal attire. But now sport those exact outfits and a lot of them even claim it, but they can do all of this solely because we Pashtuns are ignorant to what less fortunate people in our ethnic group experience. We're too busy saying "it's not that deep" or your a "qwam parast". I'm sick of seeing "Pashtun" begs in comment sections of Hazaristani and khorassani pages agreeing with them and just being downright embarrassing. There's so many other kinds of racism the average poor Pashtun has experienced at the hands of these people, but this is just an example (also if you have any stories make sure to comment them).

I know a lot of you guys don't really care about the racism but it needs to be mentioned because they push the narrative that we're all staunchly racist and we want to genocide everyone. Which in a way makes it okay for them to spew whatever nonsense they usually do. So these conversations matter because a lot of our neighbors deliberately talk about us in that manner to strip us of our humanity.

Their interests also don't involve you. Some of them are too busy thinking about using ancient Bactrian land to make their East turkistan. and the majority wouldn't object if the idea does turn out to be successful. They just need us to be the people that help white wash their image. They think we're a land dump where they can throw whatever crimes and contributions to genocides their people have onto us. Even the Afghan identifying central asians care about their own interests, and so should we. We shouldn't have to bend over backwards to make them comfortable.

To start off I don't like Iranians in general because of their mistreatment of Afghan refugees and just how racist they are to us. But one thing I admire about them is how little misogny they have in their community compared to us. Stuff they would start a roit over happens to Afghan women and especially girls on a daily basis.

I had a family friend who was crying because her dad wouldn't let her walk out the house without a niqab because her eid outfit was too beautiful. Mind you this women was in her 20s but wouldn't stand up for herself. That's the day I realized we really are cowards that don't like facing our cultural problems because we've been infested by the "what would people say" mindset.

There is just so much mistreatment of girls in our community it pisses me of just thinking about it. I have so many stories that are borderline horrific, like the type that had me questioning my whole existence after listening to them.

Then there was this video I saw on tiktok that I can't find, but it was basically slvt shaming iranian women because they compared their situation to us. Which I agree it's not comparable but to slvt shame them is just beyond me. the creator and the comment section could've used it as an opportunity to advocate for Afghan women but no lets slander other women for their clothing choices smh.

And don't get me started on how majority of our men think and operate like incels.