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Tech Bros Vs MAGA Right: Indians Are About To Learn a Harsh Lesson About America
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There’s been an extraordinary discourse dominating X in the last few days, regarding the need to look further afield for talent.
As expected the likes of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were quite forthright on their views of letting in foreign nationals, who are much better educated and cheaper than their dumb white American counterparts, who cannot fart and chew gum at the same time.
What these men did not envisage, however, was the degree to which MAGA Republicans would hit back and this was evinced by the tsunami of racial abuse directed at Vivek and the racial group to which he belongs — Indians.
And what’s more, leading MAGAs have also been quite vocal in support of their constituency, with Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz, all piling on the wealthiest man in the world and blatantly calling for a reduction in the number of Indians granted H1-B visas to the United States.
It isn’t breaking news that vast numbers of South Asian immigrants are huge supporters of the Grand Old Party with Vivek Ramaswamy and Nimrata Randhawa being their most prominent faces.
But even these guys have been astounded at the level of vitriolic abuse directed at them since the storm began, a few days ago with Asian Americans openly questioning their allegiance to the GOP.
African-Americans, who know America better than everyone else, are not the least bit surprised by the behaviour of the racists in the Republican party.
For all of their academic excellence and obsession with being the ‘model minority’ Asian-Americans have failed to grasp that the United States, at its irreducible core, is a profoundly racist nation, which was founded on the genocide of the natives and the subjugation and terrorism of its Black citizens.
And this author would be remiss to state that if it weren’t for amendments to citizenship rights, Indians…
