American YouTuber says making video of India’s cow dung festival was not racist.
American YouTuber Tyler Oliveria who routinely defames India through his vlogs got rattled after the New York Post called out his recent vlog on India’s cow dung festival which he called a poop-throwing festival. Clips of Oliveria struggling in the festival as villagers hurl dried cow dung at each other as part of a post-Diwali Hindu tradition went viral — riding on the present anti-India wave in the US. “Happy Diwali! Yes, I went to India’s poop throwing festival. It was the s—tiest experience of my life. I will never go back. Please pray that I survive,” he wrote, accompanying the post with a poop emoji.But he did not like it as his hate fest got featured on the New York Post. “It isn’t racist to film a poop-throwing festival. Was this article written by an Indian?” Oliveira reacted. Then he offered a mock apology to India sharing a post that claimed ‘Indians actually shower way more than people in the United States’. “Indians think Pakistanis funded my trip to the poop festival,” he wrote in another post. This is not the first time he has tried to defame India. Earlier this year, he claimed he contracted four types of Salmonella though during his India trip, though he only ate a five-star hotels. “During my trip to India, I ONLY ate in 5 star hotels and still contracted 4 types of Salmonella. The hotel apparently sourced their eggs from a filthy chicken farm right next to a literal mountain of trash. There are serious hygiene issues that must be addressed in India. It is NOT racist to address the poor quality of life most Indians are subjected to while the upper caste insulates themselves from reality,” he wrote.
What is cow dung festival?
Gorehabba is a local folk festival celebrated in the small village of Gumatapura (on the border of Karnataka & Tamil Nadu), where villagers throw cow dung at one another as part of the ritual. It takes place just after the festival of Diwali (specifically after the day called Balipadyami) in that region