File this news under the inevitable failure of doing business with white supremacists.
Far-right Christian nationalist and white nationalist accounts flooded [the FBI Director’s Diwali] 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.
Shocked by hate speech on the site literally rebranded with swastikas? The X rebrand was a form of overt Nazism, and thus hate speech by definition can not be a surprise there.
Indians in America apparently thought the Swastika-posting MAGA hate machinery meant that someone else, not them, would suffer from all that racism. The FBI Director is getting racist (arguably domestic terrorist) messages sent direct to his social media profile. If he isn’t protected by being “inside” the Trump cabal, nobody is. These Indians foolishly believed they could get a copy of the infamous get out of jail cards of white nationalism, while being non-Christian let alone non-white?
I’m reminded of the many in Nazi Germany who foolishly said Hitler wouldn’t flip and shoot them in the head on a moment’s notice because… reasons.
But wait, it gets worse, as the Indians trying to put white nationalists into power were engaging in the exact form of “non-white” racism they now are allegedly surprised targets them as non-whites.
…Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: “In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?”
This type of degrading rhetoric is not new, but it’s increasingly prominent from the political right. With the rise of once-fringe figures, and with President Donald Trump aggressively cracking down on nearly every type of immigration, some members of the MAGA coalition are openly suggesting that only white Christians belong in America.
Peddled racism for decades, and yet we are supposed to believe this guy is surprised by the racism he himself peddled?
Pardon my French but WTAF? The Right always used to talk like this! Nixon, Ford, Reagan… huge racists, and there’s no secret about it.
Monkeys. That’s what the white Right calls people with skin darker than their own.
That’s the guy with a long history of racism that the Right chose to be their President, not that long after Gerald Ford had literally created the white-supremacist America First college hate group that was aligned with Hitler, until if course it became banned after declaration of war.
Imagine having that giant seditious period of promoting Hitler on your resume, right next to being the American President who was never elected.
