Vivek Ramaswamy and the Scourge of the South Asian Model Minority
Vivek Ramaswamy and the Scourge of the South Asian Model Minority
He’s playing a very particular model minority card.
If you—like me—are a South Asian person, you’ve met this exact type of person a thousand times.
Don’t tell my grandmothers (they’re dead), but I love a little brown-on-brown violence. Naturally, it was with a sick frisson that I watched the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday and learned two things: first, that there have somehow already been three of these debates, and second, that I have been waiting my whole life to hear Nikki Haley call Vivek Ramaswamy “scum.”
Vivek particularly sticks out as a weasel, even among MAGA rubbish.
13The hypocrisy never seems to really land: “There are two genders” is a tough pill to swallow from someone who believes in Hinduism.
Fun fact: In Hindu society, people of non-binary gender expression have played important roles for over 2000 years.
https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/religion-context/case-studies/gender/third-gender-and-hijras
13It’s just a rambling brain dump . Badly written and I have no clue as to the point of it.
6He’s just a hideously rich guy who wants to be president; this has never happened before, and would surely set a new precedent.
Guess they forgot about Trump with this sentence.
2Definitely sarcasm from the author.
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