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Chandler Langevin faced censure from Palm Bay council and calls to resign from series of posts condemned as ‘vile’
A city councilmember in Florida is facing backlash from national Indian American organizations, members of Congress, and local residents after posting a series of social media messages that insulted Indian people living in the US and called for them to be deported en masse.
Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year, made derogatory comments about Indian people across several posts on the social media platform X over roughly three weeks this fall. He claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India, “or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger. Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.
Yes, I agree. For too long now, wealthy Indians in the top 1% have been coming to the US to become CEO’s or executives of US tech companies and completely running them into the ground with greedy, short-term, profit-driven strategies; completely spitting in the face of their customers and the legacy the companies once stood for, and eroding their position in the global market.
Of course, he means those Indians, right? Not the massive number of hard-working individuals who simply came to try and build a good life for themselves?