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May 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
OK what level of simp is Vivek on here that he's like well she absolutely hates me for my ethnicity but I really respect her
This ain't even a Christian/Gandhian love your enemies thing, this is just simping
Like is Vivek's mom still around, he's gonna get a sandal if he keeps up this long journey of losing respect for himself
For years I've been frustrated at left-leaning people accusing right-leaning minorities of being disloyal or inauthentic. But in comes Vivek to dropkick all my counterarguments when he just straight up says yeah I'm fine with white nationalism, I'll say that to fit in.
Coulter built her career in the shock jock era by saying insane/racist things, she doesn't have guts she's just grandfathered into that niche and she faces no consequences. Vivek on the other hand would face consequences for objecting to far-right racism.
But whatever consequences he faces, I mean he's not going to have any self-respect even if Trump gives him a minor post in his administration. While he's cutting ribbons in Juneau, he will still be the sepoy to a lot of these people if this is how he acts.
I don't want to make this a sectarian or racist thing myself, there are plenty of Indian Americans with self-respect, they just don't happen to be named Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Apr 27
So what happened is a pro war protester holding an Israeli flag shouted Kill the Jews at an antiwar protest and in response Northeastern university shut down the antiwar protest.

You can’t make this stuff up.
Zionist antisemitism becoming a political weapon is something else
Ironically Twitter is gonna throttle my debunking of the false flag because of the phrase in the first tweet…
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Apr 26
Let's read some MLK shall we.

1) On Black Power: "I regret that the slogan Black Power came into being, because it has been so confusing. It gives the wrong connotation. It often connotes the quest for black domination rather than black equality."
2) On Rioting: "Every time a riot develops, it helps George Wallace."
3) On the ideas of racial sectarianism: "Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men."
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Apr 26
It is absolutely hilarious that they have now come to the conclusion that Jews are behind the campaign against Israel
Zionist antisemitism, we have all kinds here in this beautiful country
Wait did we change the rules all of a sudden? I can't keep up.
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Apr 24
When I was working at ThinkProgress, which was basically a Dem Party operation, years ago, we would go to Tea Party rallies with 100,000 people and find one or two people saying something racist to frame the whole rally that way. I didn't like it then, don't like it now.
I focus pretty much everything I do on elite actors who actually make a difference, I don't like picking on ordinary people or smearing people. That's a sickness in American politics, on all sides.
Well, did you find any stories I wrote like that? I objected to that tactic then and I object to it now. I'm just saying that it's a dirty tactic and now that a foreign government is playing that tactic against Americans, it's no better.
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Apr 21
At least 40-50% of Jewish students at colleges and universities right now hate the Israeli government and the war, yet it's being reported as a Jews vs. Arabs thing. Just like the simplistic woke narratives during the Summer of 2020, reducing people to ethnic stereotypes.
There's also a broader problem in media that if you're a minority you're supposed to be a victim. If you as a reporter interview someone who says "yeah I feel totally fine" the editor says, sorry that's the wrong story. We need conflict, we need victims.
And yet when the right does it, as they are now, you are silent. So that shows how sincere the criticism is.
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Apr 12
Try telling them Indian parents are fine if the kids live with them until they’re 50. Heck the grandkids too.
I was reading a Reddit thread yesterday about a pregnant 19 year old whose mom wanted to kick her out and I was thinking man these people are Americans alright
In India they’d be like awesome can you have four more we will build an extension to the house for your whole family
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