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Punjabi: The Linguistically Inferior

Two days ago, a tweet by Sabahat Zakariya shook the Pakistani twitter, Sabahat being an influential person of the Pakistani twitterati caused quite a stir by her tweet which was a condemnation of actions and behavior towards the Punjabis that are racist which is about their language and how they are made fun of often and how everyone ignores that. Here are her exact words: 'The only ethnicity in Pakistan against whom you you can get away with saying simply anything are Punjabis. Criticism of the Punjabi establishment is deployed to get away with being racist towards the average Punjabi and his/her language, manner and background.' A lot of people seemed to have been offended with this tweet of hers with many of them condemning her for centering the conversation towards Punjabis when other ethnicities are less privileged and have suffered by the Punjabi domination in Pakistan's ruling elite. Many have absurdly even drawn comparisons with PTM and the racial prof