• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m curious what India thinks of Usha Vance. On paper, she’s an Indian-American Second Lady. In reality, she sits back while her husband says he’s okay with all kinds of anti-Indian racist shit.

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      Ever hear of the caste system? That anti-Indian racism is built in and I guarantee that there’s a higher % that approves than you think

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      JD is gay right? Maybe she’s just living in denial … Regardless, I feel bad for her that she gets humiliated all the time. Maybe she deserves it for some Faustian deal. I don’t know.

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        Gay?! He wishes! If he were gay, there’d be no problem! No, what he has is a romantic abnormality. One so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost.

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          Imagine just hanging with the boys all the time. Having sleep overs. Skinny dipping in the pool. Having a hot shower together. Sharing eye liner tips. Talking about how much gays suck. Who needs girls, right? Yuck.

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            You might even say he’s extra manly; so manly he wants to spend all his time with men and as little time as possible with women.

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        Fuck no. Do not feel bad. If we know about what a flagrant piece of shit he is, she absolutely has to know. Never go that route. She knows and she’s hoping he comes out on top to ride the hateful wave.

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      I’m in another country and not speaking about Indians in particular, but my family have been immigrants. One thing I observed is that immigrants tend to have a stronger anti-immigration stance than other demographics.

      I think it’s one part shame. You worked hard and now you feel superior to the “fresh off the boat” person you once were and (by extension) to all those new immigrants.

      One part it’s that inside, we all have these shitty feelings toward other people but, as immigrants ourselves, we feel legitimised to express them openly because hey, that can’t be racist if you’re talking of your own ethnicity, right?

      And then of course,in many places immigrants tend to be pigeonholed into specific types of jobs, so more immigrants not from your family = more competition. But that is not for the Usha Vance types who made it close to the top.

      I see that dynamic being actively exploited for politics everywhere. The lesbian leader of the neonazi AfD in Germany, for instance. “I can’t be racist, I have an Indian wife” is just not true. You can and the Indian wife can be too.

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        Eh, it’s over a billion people. Most people (who don’t live in cities) don’t know about Trump other than the fact that he’s the president. Even those who have internet aren’t going to see US news cuz their feeds aren’t curated for that.

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      Most people like trump, because “strong man”. No one really even knows who JD vance or Usha are. But I guess they’d like her, they like rishi sunak. Being rich is seen as a virtue. There’s also a weird obsession with seeing indians in powerful positions, some sort repressed complex.

      She’s fine with the racism because “she’s one of the good ones”. She and vance are neoliberalists, opportunists. Watch them try and make as much money as they can before they get kicked out.