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Seeing two Trump administration Indian-Americans (one American-born, one Indian-born) be dragged by actual MAGA racists creates tension vis-a-vis Indians as racial beings. Indians are largely well off and educated and so are less affected by racism materially than people of color who don’t have degrees or white collar jobs.
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... See moreDrew Waterstreet • This Entire Reality Is a Lie. | Whatifalthist with Rudyard Lynch • Podcast Notes
Somehow, the left advanced the absurd notion that the salad bowl of immigrants, chiefly and permanently identified by tribal ethnicities, races, religions and nationalities, and only secondly as new Americans, would radically change America for the better. And so ended the ancient notion of assimilation, now to be known as “cultural appropriation.”
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The deeper I went, the more I noticed this phenomenon all around me: individuals not guided by legible principles or beliefs, but acting as members of groups playing yin to the other’s yang—well versus weak; awake versus sheep; righteous versus depraved. Binaries where thinking once lived.