Someone said ‘but James Corden gets more abuse than Nish Kumar’, as though that means the abuse Kumar gets isn’t racist. Corden, whether you like him or not, is a *much* bigger star than Nish (sorry Nish). He’s a huge star both sides of the Atlantic. Has 11m followers on here.
And Corden doesn’t trend *nearly* as often as Kumar. To even think that the two are comparable says something, and it’s not the thing the people attacking Kumar think it is.
And no, of course you don’t have to be a racist to attack Nish Kumar. But it helps.
And no, racists won’t say ‘I hate Nish because he’s Asian’. They’ll say ‘I don’t think he’s funny’, and keep the rest unspoken. Unless they’re even more stupid than they are racist.
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