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English
Etymology
An invented Indian-sounding given name, originating from the Pajeet, my son meme created on the 4chan message board /int/ in July 2015, mocking South Asians. This was itself inspired by the Mehmet, my son meme, popularized on /int/ in late 2014, which mocked Turkish people. Although the name does not exist in South Asia, similar-sounding names exist, especially in the Indian state of Punjab. It is likely derived from Punjabi ਭਾਜੀ (bhājī) / بھاجی (bhājī, “elder brother”), as well as from Punjabi male names ending with the suffix Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory”), such as Baljeet and Sanjeet.[1][2][3]
Noun
pajeet (plural pajeets)
- (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) A person of South Asian ancestry.[1]
- Synonym: (ethnic slur) poojeet
2019 April 13, Luke Smith, 4:13 from the start, in Leave Amazon? You can't LEAVE Amazon!:You used to be able to e-mail some Amazon representative and get your account deleted maybe; you can't do that anymore, what you have to do nowadays is you either have to live-chat with a pajeet or you have to manually call them.
2019 April 27, John T. Earnest, An open letter , →DOI, margin number 27:Apparently, Pewdiepie hates Jews as much as Pajeets.
2024 November 9, Han Feizi, “Ethnic slurs, Bo Yang, The Ugly Chinaman and national character”, in Asia Times:A South Asian ‘Pajeet’ and a ‘Chinaman’ are pretty much the same creature – a quasi-human living in squalor […] This piece will not focus on Indians and their Pajeet situation, about which Han Feizi has little expertise. It will be about the “Chinaman” situation, which has dogged the Chinese for 150 years. […] Han Feizi and all Gen-X Chinamen have crowd-shoving, queue-jumping and public quarreling skills that, although they may have atrophied since we were in our prime, would have matched those of the most uncouth Pajeet.
(Pakistan, Internet slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) An Indian, especially non-Muslim.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Online Racism Targeting South Asians Skyrockets”, in Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2024 May 8, archived from the original on 2024-05-22
- ^ “Baltimore bridge collapse: Racist online attacks on Indian crew of MV Dali”, in The New Indian Express, 2024 March 27
- ^ “Racial slurs against Hindus have genocidal impact, says report”, in Hindu Times Canada, 2023 June 1