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.
Spent any time in Surrey? Lol
Gf used to live there and whenever we went to the mall (literally the only thing to do in Surrey BTW) there were an alarming amount of young guys visibly staring at her chest etc
India is culturally broken, change my mind
Richmond is almost all Chinese people and when I’m there I never feel unsafe and people aren’t staring at me just because I’m white
Also if you go on tiktok and intentionally end up on the punjabi side of the algorithm theres tons of shit about how to take from food banks cuz it’s “free food”, or stuff about only renting and hiring other punjabis, etc etc