Indian comedian Samay Raina gets called out for insensitive tweets regarding abortion rights

Indian standup comedian and content creator Samay Raina known for his humour and popular chess streams recently found himself in hot water over a series of tweets regarding abortion rights His insensitive and dismissive remarks have resurfaced sparking outrage onlineIndian comedian Samay Rainas tweets regarding abortion rights get slammedOne Instagram creator reacted to a recent roast Samay posted in which he jokingly asks a man Whats your trauma and follows up with Mama ne chua hai bachpan mei Did an uncle touch you inappropriately in your childhoodmdashseemingly making light of sexual assaultAn influencer reposted the clip with a caption expressing her distaste for this type of humour especially during a time when the nation is still reeling from the Kolkata rapemurder case She also included a series of Samayrsquos tweets that mocked abortion rightsThe tweet controversy dates back to 2022 when Samay posted a series of tweets trivializing abortion rights In these tweets Raina made jokes that many netizens found offensive with his humour coming across as tonedeafSamay Raina being called out as he shouldbyuInfluenzavirus11 inInstaCelebsGossipIn one tweet Samay is quoted as saying Parso maine aadha ghanta sochke meri girlfriend pe ek funny tweet likha tha Usko pasand nahi aaya toh usne delete karwa diya Kal ko jabh mai abortion karwaane bolu tabh mat bolna my body my choice Translation The other day I spent half an hour coming up with a funny tweet about my girlfriend She didnrsquot like it so she made me delete it Tomorrow if I ask for an abortion donrsquot tell me my body my choiceWhy was Samay in the news recentlyThis isnrsquot the first time Samay has faced backlash Recently Kusha Kapila also called him out for his lsquodehumanizingrsquo joke on a sensitive topic like her divorceKusha took to her YouTube community notes and shared her thoughts She wrote ldquoFriends a recent roast I was a part of has led a lot of my female and queer followers to question why did I sit through something that could have been completely avoided and WITH GOOD REASON Herersquos my two cents It was done in good faith and for a friend Nobody has been paid neither comics nor guests for it so the argument that people are lsquobeing paid big fat cheques to hear their insultsrsquo is baselessrdquoldquoJokes werenrsquot shared beforehand as itrsquos done in all roast formats in the West so I had no idea what was in store for me Maybe I should have asked for a script and known better but since friends were involved I didnrsquot Rookie mistake While I endured some of the really raspy jokes in front of a live audience and technicians I absolutely was not okay for it to play for millions of people since some jokes straightup dehumanised me It was shockingly unkindrdquo she addedShe continued ldquoMine was the first episode to be shot was shot in January so everyone had a fair bit of learnings post shoot which is why in other episodes boundaries havenrsquot been crossed especially with women Last six months since the episode was shot I have been a part of various calls and negotiations for every word every joke every slur literal begging has happened If I hadnrsquot let the episode go live I would have been called a coward and a crybaby and a different kind of trolling would have ensuedrdquoKusha concluded ldquoThis has been a huge learning for me too since over the course of last six months during negotiations I have been told that I deserve these jokes and that as a divorced woman I should have seen this coming Maybe I should have and maybe silence on this topic is seen as cowardice but itrsquos mostly choosing peace over endless discourse that will likely villainise women Simultaneously when you donrsquot speak people also choose to believe whatever they want to So this is me clearing the air as much as I can and advising women artists to have strict riders in placerdquo