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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.

Some Indian American conservatives seem shocked that segments of the political right are now taking aim at them.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

How is this like the third outright racist comment I've seen on Lemmy this morning? Fuck off.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

And you think they respect gay ppl at all? Trans ppl at all? Theyll be nice openly as is polite but they are the biggest haters of anything like that, defending fobs who literally hate you if you're on blahaj is wild

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I dont respect a whites opinion on racism either way, half of yall sound like you live in the midwest, no diversity in your upbringing just parroting shit you read online, how about you talk to some indian immigrants or children of immigrants for once

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

Yall think you speak for us all, you speak for no one

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 19 hours ago

Yeah my indian ass sharing my lived experiences is the most racist person on this site I bet

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Im literally in 2 group chats for us jobs im unqualified for but im prioritized because im indian, if you think ppl are capping they are not, personally I hate my recruiter, man spends 6 months out of the year in india praising india implying my dad has stds because hes a truck driver, thats the typical kind of person I deal with when dealing with ppl straight out of india, they have a massive superiority complex

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They want you to only associate with indians, drop all white friends and relationships and talk shit on american culture constantly, this isnt just them, this is common, if you dont speak hindi or punjabi you wont notice

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Nobody wants this. Just stop.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip -1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

BTW my neighbours gay and punjabi her dad accepts her because he came earlier and assimilated, same wave as my parents, they have a different mentality now

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Maybe you need to talk to more people before telling others they are out of touch, your hand picked anecdotes from the few Indians you met aren't representative of a billion different individuals. Yes there's a lot of idiot conservative type these days, that's becausea conservative right wing goverment came into power a few years back and this is the result of their propaganda , the same that has happened in the US recently and they share similar view points to American conservatives, non of what you are talking about is exclusive to Indians, growing up an abcd has obviously done a number on your mental health, so I hope you seek some treatment for that, but your parents generation was no different from the current gen, the political and social landscape was just different back then.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago