Seems like it’s Indians turn to experience the “scary minority” moment after Latin Americans and Muslims.
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I think Ohio might be too racist to elect this guy.
I don't know, Bobby Jindal got elected and so did Nikki Haley.
Of course, they changed their names to something that sounded less exotic to American ears.
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Efficient as hell: first day of the regime and we've made it so s department doesn't have two guys running it
It's not noon yet Trump isn't in charge and the DOGE is already coming apart at the seams.
Has the token brown MAGA finally realized his new buddies are using him to prove they're not racists, and now that Trump won, he's not needed anymore?
I almost guarantee you that Vivek thinks he's white. I have met more than one (wealthy) South Asian-American who literally consider themselves white and are just mystified when people react to them with racism because they're white. One old family friend who's family was from Sri Lanka was absolutely incensed that he couldn't say he was white on his passport.
I don't get it, but that is apparently not uncommon.
I used to work with a dude who, while 100% born and raised in the USA, looked like he fell off the fucking Tapatio bottle. Him and I would go on ambulance calls together, and the folks who only spoke Spanish would start talking to him; he would shrug helplessly at them and then I, like Hank Hill levels of white, would pick up the conversation on pretty solid spanish. (They'd always give him a shit about it, which I found fucking hilarious) It straight up stumped me for a second when he started talking about "us white people" and it wasn't a joke. Still not sure what the root of it was, but I found it to be a really powerful and interesting political science moment. Dude's daddy was rich and he didn't want for anything, their family were some of the only Latinos in the area, and also his Latino heritage was about 0% important to him, so those things may have each or altogether had something to do with it.
Is it a caste thing, maybe?
I live in Latin America, and most of the people I talk to consider themselves to be white.
Race doesn't have a valid scientific basis, so I guess it's one of those "eye of the beholder" things. But I doubt that the MAGA crew would look at your average Colombian or Venezuelan and think, "Oh, yeah, that person is on our team."
Well there are plenty of phenotypically white in Latin America because of historically large migration from Europe. In South Asia, there are those with fair complexions but few who'd be considered "Caucasian white".
He was all for deporting naturalized citizens too, he is naturalized citizen himself
Trump official dropping before he even takes office. Speed running this time around.
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