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Why MAGA turned on Indians: From model minority to rapacious menace


Last week, a user on X (formerly Twitter) named Daniel Keene posted footage, filmed while he was driving around his Dallas suburb, showing a small crowd of South Asian neighbors congregating on the street, apparently for a Hindu festival. “Typical view in my neighborhood,” Keene fumed in his post.

Last week, a user on X (formerly Twitter) named Daniel Keene posted footage, filmed while he was driving around his Dallas suburb, showing a small crowd of South Asian neighbors congregating on the street, apparently for a Hindu festival. One of my first exposures to economics was reading the books of Thomas Sowell, the celebrated conservative intellectual, who eviscerated the anti-human philosophy of famed environmentalist Paul Ehrlich, a zero-sum thinker known for population-control arguments based on ecological considerations. But the online Right does, and it produces an endless stream of propaganda reframing anti-Indian sentiment as economic populism — talking about wages and corporate power instead of openly expressing racial animus in the style of Fuentes and other white nationalist influencers.

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