Comment by kleton
16 days ago
> he’s a non white immigrant!
This seems like a very white-centric categorization to assume that a Tamil Brahmin should necessarily see himself as in the same racial solidarity group as a Somali, Haitian, or Venezuelan as opposed to a European.
He’s going to be a victim of the same anti immigration anti foreigner anti minority movement that the other groups you mentioned will be victim to. Remember the DHS tweeted a supremacist call to deport 100 million people. That is only possible if you denaturalize all the citizens who were once just immigrant workers on visas. The fact that he’s “Tamil Brahmin” isn’t relevant - his right to exist in America is at risk, by his very own actions of supporting the administration.
It doesn't much matter how Pichai sees himself.
What matters is how Trump and ICE see him.
And all they really notice is the color of the skin.
The vice president's wife is a Telugu Brahmin, and the director of the FBI is a Gujarati Patidar. What evidence do you have for Trump and ICE having a problem with Hindustanis?
It is a matter of time. They go for one group first, then the other group. Until then, they're useful, albeit foolish, tools.
Take a look at the ecosystem of far right influencers and personalities guiding the MAGA movement, and what they post on Twitter. Go look at replies on deportation and ethnic cleansing (“remigration”) posts made by Elon or DHS or others. You’ll see a torrent of vile supremacist content, and most of it is directed at Indians. That includes insults aimed at Usha Vance, various Indian CEOs, and Indian people at large. It’s why Vivek quit social media - almost every single reply to any post he made was racist. It’s what the right always was, unfortunately, even though it looked for a bit like it might be moving on from that past.
When the deportation push shifts from illegal immigrants to legal ones - which it has to because their stated goal of deporting 100 million Americans is not possible otherwise - it’ll come for Indians too. In fact I would say Indians are perhaps the most hated group on the far right.
As for those Indians still ignoring what the administration stands for and where it’s going, such as the ones working for Trump, they’re useful idiots. Doing the dirty work that will come for them in the future.