Racists are targeting East Indian Americans

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.

Against this backdrop of racist and economic grievance, the success and prominence of Indian Americans make them an easy target, said Rohit Chopra, a professor at Santa Clara University who studies far-right online communities and who co-authored the reports for the Center for the Study of Organized Hate with Naik. Indian immigrants and Indian Americans are among the highest-earning ethnic groups in the US, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data. They’ve ascended to top government posts and are CEOs of billion-dollar companies. They’re represented at the highest levels of media, entertainment, technology, business, medicine and academia.

Googley....

Your franchise is next....😀

It's called the wake up call. The main people being attacked sided with the White Supremacists in an effort to denigrate black people. The same ones who made the AmeriKKKan dream possible for them.

Fact Dinesh, Kash, Nikki and Vivek. Racists getting attacked by their racist buddies.

No honour among sleaze.

@JahJah

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@sgtdjones

So it's the same kind of hate plus jealousy like UK that has been going on for more than 30 years.I wondeer if Trump will start rounding dem up,let him do so it could make "America white again" or even great again.😅

@sgtdjones

my friend,

As you are a person who, on this very forum, will REGULARLY ‘attack’ and ‘ridicule’ and express ‘hostility’ toward Christian theology, how does this recent attack on Hindus sit with you?

also please clarify the last paragraph that seems to suggest socioeconomic strata should insulate a group from that which is meted out to another…

all civil inquiries I believe

@Halliwell

I state my views on the Christian religion, hoping someone can convince me it's factual.

I have yet to find such a person.

also please clarify the last paragraph that seems to suggest socioeconomic strata should insulate a group from that which is meted out to another…

It’s tempting to believe that success protects you, that a respected title, a good education, and a quiet suburb form a buffer against hate. But hatred doesn’t care about résumés or mortgages; it finds its mark in what it perceives as different. Many Hindu Americans have built lives that represent diligence and contribution, yet still walk into spaces where bias waits, unspoken but sharp. Until we stop measuring safety through privilege and start addressing the roots of prejudice, the promise of equality will remain an aspiration rather than a reality.

The US is perhaps the only predominantly white country that allows for such great plurality and freedom of speech! I would cut them some slack!

@granite

The Orange blob wants 600,000 Chinese ...

@sgtdjones

Well, not only are people of Indian descent being harass on social media and sometimes in public, but they are being denied entrance to colleges in America and Canada.

@dayne

How do we reconcile the fact that tens of thousands are graduating from the best universities but are somehow being denied entry? I genuinely ask to see some evidence- not just opinion.

@sgtdjones

Vivek finally meet one?

@XDFIX

@XDFIX

The US is perhaps the only predominantly white country that allows for such great plurality and freedom of speech! I would cut them some slack!

I will hope that you have more intelligence than you displayed in this statement. What is the US without immigrants?

@JahJah

Siding with white supremacists is a dangerous game with a two edged sword as the ball.

@XDFIX

there is a world outside the americas ok? Heck there is even something called Canada even before you leave the nest. Wow.

The US is perhaps the only predominantly white country that allows for such great plurality and freedom of speech!