Why are there so many prominent right-wing people of indian descent (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Maybe it's some sort of confirmation bias, but it seems like there's a lot of prominent right wing people of Indian ancestry (Vivek Ramaswamy, Dinesh D'Souza, Nikki Haley). Is it confirmation bias or is this a real thing? If the latter, what is driving it other than US immigration policies excluding leftists?

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[-] 2812481591@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

there's a billion indians, they end up everywhere. there's also plenty of left-wing indian politicians, like Jagmeet Singh, Humza Yousaf, Leo Varadkar, António Costa, and of course, most of all, Kamala Harris.

[-] readoncontradiction@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There’s a billion Africans but you see a lot less of them praising capitalism

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Sir afaik Africa is a continent not a country with a shared national identity, I might be wrong who knows

[-] readoncontradiction@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Joe Biden would be considered its own continent if not for Donald Trump standards of measuring what a Joe Biden is

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

It is still considered a sub continent. Doesn't give the whole dumb "praising capitalism" statement any credence. There's telugu nationalism or tamil nationalism or punjabi nationalism. Chennai had a beautification drive and evicted 100s from homes by force and demolition. Huge pogroms were carried out in manipur. Hmmmm I guess both of those times they were praising capitalism. I guess they were probably only dictated by some regional nationalism.

So which is it, they are all the same and praise capitalism but can't be looked at anything other than sub nationalist patchwork. Or its a large ubiquitous continent and they all praise capitalism.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

cause a lot less of them speak English lol...

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well the west fails at courting African countries because they can't help by being racist and exploit everyone, and many of them aren't near superpower level like India. The west is also racist towards Indians and exploit them, but the country's productive capacity and population means they can have leverage while pursuing their own agenda. Many African producers of minerals and metals are starting to stand up and tell the west to fuck off, but they still have to be balance a relationship with China and the west because they lack the productive forces.