Last month, FBI Director Kash Patel wished his followers on X a happy Diwali. It did not go over well.
Far-right Christian nationalist and white nationalist accounts flooded his post with bigoted memes and rhetoric. “Go back home and worship your sand demons,” a far-right pastor wrote. “Get the f**k out of my country,” read another reply. Said another, “This is America. We don’t do this.” These responses, some of which were seen millions of times, were on the tamer end of the spectrum.
Similar hostility followed Diwali greetings on X from former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, as well as posts about the holiday from the White House, the State Department, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Some Indian American conservatives seem shocked that segments of the political right are now taking aim at them.
After one X user said that the existence of Indians disgusted them, Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: “In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?”
Shocked I am.
So, people on Elon Musk’s far right, racist social network are being racist. How is that news?
Why are you all pretending people on X are representative of society as a whole?
I love how tangled and fucked up the entire thing is.
Musk implements a system that allows just enough monetary incentive that people in India and other countries can actually make a living promoting right-wing talking points and propaganda with blue check accounts, so he raises an absolute army of non-americans posing as pro-conservative patriots, and now Indian people are coming under attack from… you guessed it, American conservatives.
On one hand racism is bad, and no one should be discriminated or targetted because of their race
Kash Patel … Nikki Haley … Vivek Ramaswamy
But then again, Fuck em.
Don’t be surprised your face gets eaten if you hang out with leopards.
The article skirts the H1-B issue, overseas call centers and scam calls. Large sections of the US have been through layoffs and then have a vendor like HCL come in to do the same work. We went through a 20 year period before automation where the person on the other line was clearly not named Frank. Cell phones are inundated by spam calls and the person on the other line is pretty assuredly not going to have a familiar inflection. This sentiment is not “new” or out of no where. Unjustified but its not all just blind rage for people with different culture.
Indian Americans have been pretty visible in Republican spheres.
I think that they probably voted for the patriarchy without a real understanding of colonial race hierarchy. Although they should have some understanding because it’s just a social caste system.
We should get those two guys from “RRR” to come in and clean house. That was a great film.
Some Indian American conservatives seem shocked that segments of the political right are now taking aim at them.
But but but, we are different brown people,we are not those dirty Latinos,we are clean Indians!
No no no, not THOSE indians, those aren’t even calle… Ok, never mind, we are the GOOD brown people, you have to like us!
Am I close? Fucking leopards again!
Model minorities
Do brown skinned MAGA really think they are exempt? If so, see Exhibit ‘A’: JD Vances wife.
Oh you mean his soon to be ex wife???
Yes. Especially upper caste Indian Americans. But your average right winger from bumfuck doesn’t know or care the difference between a Brahman or a Dalit. When it comes to east Asians it’s basically this scene. They think of all west Asian, Arabic, and north African people as basically terrorists. The only group they might actually think of as different is very light skinned Cubans who don’t speak Spanish.
Dumb cunt thought she’d get to sleep in the master’s house if she danced just right. What’s the right word for a race and class traitor?
It was about when Trump got back into power that me and my pals had the conversation that any colour but white will be fair game. What we got completely wrong, was just how quickly and how openly this would run.
Indian Americans spent a weirdly long time with so many of them actually believing the model minority shit. There is no model minority. The people who hate Mexicans and Venezuelans hate you too if you’re darker than a german or you speak a non English language.
The MAGAt Indian Americans can piss in the wind . They voted for this BS and I have zero sympathy for their problem with the Christo-Fascist nutters. In Japan, Toyota’s CEO wore a fucking MAGA hat and t-shirt at a NASCAR event. SHAME!!! Fuck him and I will boycott Toyota.
Its so weird to me that 80% of the undocumented immigrants being deported are christian but these people say nothing. But when Kash Patel talks about Diwali that’s the end of the world.
Its 100% about racism not christianity.
What did these people think white Christian nationalists were? What did they think a white Christian ethnostate was going to be?
My only surprise is that it took this long. MAGA probably calculated that they could get the Indian vote in the election, so they kept their mouths closed.
Now they are turbocharging their cruelty, and burning the goodwill they have with multiple groups, and the only conclusion can be that they have already determined that they don’t need those votes because there won’t be any more elections.
