Right-wing media’s racist attacks and ethnic slurs directed at Indians, other South Asians, and South Asian Americans have surged over the past year, in part fueled by conservative infighting over the H-1B visa program and a handful of viral posts.Commentators in the conservative media ecosystem have used anti-Indian slurs and characterized the presence of Indian immigrants as “harmful to America.” Some of these figures allege that the U.S. is being “invaded by Indians” who “have abused the H-1B visa system in order to change America forever.” Additionally, commentators said that H-1B visas “shouldn’t even exist” and claimed that “we need a Northern wall” to prevent Indian migrants coming to the United States from Canada.

Right-wing media’s racist attacks and ethnic slurs directed at Indians, other South Asians, and South Asian Americans have surged over the past year, in part fueled by conservative infighting over the H-1B visa program and a handful of viral posts…

  • jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    12 days ago

    Do you seriously expect me to have a debate with every shitty racist I come across?

    Educating doesn’t necessarily mean debate. Challenging someone’s beliefs doesn’t need to be a fight. Teaching/helping someone to be better shouldn’t be a chore.

    From the sounds and content of your angry response, I’d wager you haven’t tried very hard. You’ve replaced “grace” with “race” in your mind.

    How wrong you are. Welcome to Canada. Try the civil discourse. It’s lovely.

    • overcast5348@lemmy.world
      12·
      12 days ago

      Okay. What would you like to be educated about? I can type out a thousand page essay. Will that be enough to change your opinion about literally anything?

      More importantly, there is existing literature on why racists suck balls. Why haven’t you sought that out and changed your opinion already if you’re truly willing to be educated and change your opinions?

      • jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works
        23·
        12 days ago

        For the record, I think your assumption is nonsense. Facts are not racist. I made no statement in my OP that was racist.

        See above, champ.

        As I’ve already said, you couldn’t be more wrong.

        • overcast5348@lemmy.world
          21·
          11 days ago

          Stating a bunch of random “facts” about a group of people and using that as a justification to hate on them? Yeah, that’s not racism. We should give this phenomena a name. Sounds brand new.

          • jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works
            22·
            11 days ago

            🫠

            My dude. You already said you know nothing about India. Perhaps go read about it and learn something rather than arguing about things you know nothing about. I’m sure you know of some still reputable information sources.

            • overcast5348@lemmy.world
              21·
              11 days ago

              I don’t know about India. I know about racism. Once again, you’re a racist piece of shit. Wait for a few days, your rusky bot friends will come online and you can tell them all about me.

              • boonhet@lemmy.zip
                2·
                11 days ago

                Then perhaps you should read about India. It’s a country where you can gang rape a woman on public transit and get away with it unless it receives international media attention because the woman dies of her injuries. Which is not to say we don’t have a rape problem in the west, but most cultures don’t accept it in public.

                They did at least hang some of the men responsible for that one famous case, but changed basically nothing legally. A woman is raped every 20 seconds in India.