The Instances of India and the Hindustan Instances referred to as the controversy “a red-hot potato” and “a brand new chapter of racism in opposition to Indians” of their headlines and warned of its long-term implications for the connection between the 2 international locations. Digital information websites have been much less restrained and blamed “America’s corrosive politics” for the “explosion of racism.”
Look, it’s nice and all that extra demographics are being vocal about what rabid white nationalist members of the far-right are, nevertheless it’s fascinating that it took the trending of the H-1B difficulty for that to occur. In any case, Trump spent his complete marketing campaign dehumanizing Black and Latino immigrants from the southern border. He repeatedly in contrast migrants to Hannibal Lecter, referred to as them “animals” who’re “not human,” claimed that their “genes” predisposed them to commit violent crimes, and declared that they’re “poisoning the blood” of the nation. (“MAGA” is the brand new “Heil Hitler.” Change my thoughts?)
Hell, even Musk is out right here calling the anti-H-1B conservatives “hateful, unrepentant racists” as if he wasn’t giddily driving the Trump practice the whole time Trump was spreading anti-immigrant hate speech from the pulpit. (Musk can also be an anti-DEI propagandist and an individual who thinks it’s “woke” if too many non-white individuals are successful Academy awards.)
The selective outrage is at all times astounding, truly. When it was introduced that Republican Congressman JD Vance would function Trump’s operating mate, it didn’t take lengthy for racist conservatives to circle in on the truth that Vance is married to an Indian girl whom he has three youngsters with, all of whom got historically Indian names. The racist backlash was fast, and so vile that even Vance referred to his detractors as “white supremacists.” And which may have been admirable if not for the truth that, weeks later, the vice president-elect was out right here selling lies about Haitian migrants abducting and consuming pets and Springfield, Ohio, in addition to spreading the falsehood that Haitian migrants are liable for a steep improve in HIV instances in Ohio, which is refuted by the knowledge on HIV stats within the state.
All I’m saying is, allow us to not solely be outraged when the racism spreads to immigrants that (some) Individuals discover to be productive and respectful. It’s all racism. There’s no motive to be selective about calling it out.
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