Protests erupt over UK YouTuber's joke of dropping atom bomb on India
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London: British YouTuber Miles Routledge sparked widespread outrage on social media when he joked in a post on platform x that he would launch nuclear bombs to ‘ atomise’ nations including India if he was the prime minister of England.
In the now deleted post he picked out India as his prime target saying he would attack the country ‘just for the sake of it. "Hell, I might just launch at India just for the sake of it!’
‘When I become prime minister of England, I'll open the nuclear silos as an explicit warning to any foreign power that interferes with British interests and affairs. I'm not talking huge incidents, I'm itching to launch and atomize entire nations over the smallest infraction,’Routledge wrote on X.
Reacting to an anonymous X user’s alleged threat over his remark, Routledge said: ‘Believe it or not, I just don't like India. Also I can sense an Indian, he is Indian.’
Sharing the screenshot of the chat, he wrote ‘Indian threatens to find me, it backfires lmao’.
The message from the user read: ‘I will find you I promise, your apology video will be sweet.’
Following this , Routledge shared multiple racist memes and AI-generated images.
Miles Routledge gained the epithet ‘ dangerous tourist’ after he planned a trip to Afghanistan to see life under Taliban’s offensive and thus stranded in the war-torn country, he had to be evacuated in 2021.
He arrived in Kabul on August 13 dismissing warnings from the British government, and two days later on August 15 the city fell.
He reportedly documented his experience on platforms like 4chan, Facebook and Twitch.
But he found himself stranded when the Taliban took over and the British army on August 17 evacuated him in the guise of woman in burka.
Later he signed a book deal to recount the account of the Fall of Afghanistan in December 2022.
This incident did not stop Routledge from continue traveling to dangerous locations, including Kazakhstan, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Ukraine and Brazil.