Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 04:39
Rudradev wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 03:01
Has he said a word about "abuse" of the H1B program here? ...
Talking about instances of H1B abuse to deflect from Charlie Kirk's actual statement is a stellar example of
Those abuses were building up the frustration in the Americans including Indian-Americans. Kirk posted on X. That is the only diefference between him and the Democrats who were underhanded about it by couching in nice Haavaad language, onlee.
Bringing in "Democrats" is simply another deflection from what is relevant here.
Charlie Kirk could have posted about any issue under the sun. Instead, he chose to join a bandwagon of rabidly anti-India demagogues in specifically vilifying US-resident NRIs and Indian Americans (who have nothing to do with Indian government policy). By attacking Indian-origin people in the US at the time he did, and on the platform he did, he participated in an organized campaign to demonize us-- exploiting our vulnerable status as a micro-minority "hostage population" to bring pressure on the Modi government.
Peter Navarro took the lead in this campaign with his "Hindu"/"Maharaja"/"Brahmin" dog-whistles, and scum like Laura Ingraham and Charlie Kirk piled on to the trend, using their massive social-media reach to amplify the targeting of Indians in the United States.
No wonder you are such a fan of the Charlie Kirk/Prager University school of "debating".
OK. Now resorting to ad hominem that you are losing the argument.
How is that ad-hominem when you yourself expressed (as part of this argument) your admiration for Charlie Kirk's supposed debating skills?
Vayutuvan wrote: ↑11 Sep 2025 03:31
Chaploos or not, he did well on college campuses. He came prepared and debated well with students
This was part of your defence of Kirk from the get-go. I merely pointed out that using strawman arguments and posting claims without evidence-- as you did in the previous post-- was typical of Charlie Kirk's style of debating as well.
His views are no more anti-India/Indian than Baptist Harris, Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, Obama (how soon we forget his National Prayer address soon after returning from India where he was the chief guest for Aug 15th), Biden who sent a carrier group patrolling in the Arabian ocean right after he became POTUS, Leon Panetta saying adversaries like China and India (when he was in India addressing Indian policymakers) so on so forth.
You can abuse Democrats as much as you want, as far as I am concerned. I abuse them too when they deserve it.
But Charlie Kirk is noteworthy here and now, because his attack was on people of Indian origin in the United States. The reason he did it, as obviously evident from the context of his tweet and the content of the Laura Ingraham tweet he quoted, was in response to the policy of the government of India (specifically: Modi going to SCO instead of caving in to the absurd demands of Chump and his thugs).
Charlie Kirk was serving an agenda to focus targeted hatred against Indian-origin people in the United States as a proxy for the Indian government. He did this by calling for specific discrimination against Indian-origin people (a violation of US anti-discrimination laws, by the way) on the completely false grounds that legal immigration from India causes harm to Americans. Rationally, there is no other way to interpret his tweet, given its timing and context.
I also don't feel any need to wear my emotional connect with India on my sleeve. I will leave it to those who are feeling guilty that they are not giving anything back to their motherland. I do my part. I don't feel guilty for acting in self-interest of my family and my children who are second generation Indian-Americans.
You don't have to wear anything on your sleeve. In American society, your Indian origin already speaks for itself in many ways. A target is already being painted on you and your family by the likes of Charlie Kirk/Laura Loomer/Ann Coulter/Peter Navarro/Stephen Miller.
From their point of view, Indian-Americans must all be thrown under the bus as long as Chump's Nobel Prize ambitions are threatened by Modi's refusal to kowtow. They have always resented our very existence here and now they have Trump's anti-India tantrum as a pretext to push for our erasure.
You think this is about "guilt" because you refuse to confront the fact that everyone who shares your national origin is under attack by ideological sociopaths. Waving the flag and repeating CPAC talking points will not help you evade the consequences at all.
In all sincerity, I hope your family and children remain unaffected by this deliberate targeting.
I am going to disagree with you on this C. Kirk murder
I have no disagreement on the murder. Murder is murder and the perpetrator, once proven guilty, should face all the consequences of the law.
My point is that Charlie Kirk was a vile specimen of humanity when he was alive.
Re Khobragade, I searched your posts . No posts from that time exist. Probably they are never archived or were lost. As far I remember,your first reaction was (paraphrasing here ofc) to blame DK for her corruption in India. I even remember @ramana gaaru requesting you to stand up for DK and India.
One thing more indicative of losing an argument than an ad-hominem attack, is an ad-hominem attack with zero evidence. Your claim regarding my views on the Devyani Khobragade episode is false. The more false claims you make-- whether you make them intentionally or mistakenly-- the more your credibility suffers in all matters on which you express opinions.
move on. Peace.
Fair enough.