As MAGA attacks Indian tech workers and H1B visas, a debate about racism plays out on social media
The appointment of Chennai-born Sriram Krishnan as a senior advisor on Artificial Intelligence seems to have rubbed some White Americans the wrong way.
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Racism has raised its ugly head on X (formerly Twitter). This time, it is the white-supremacist segment of Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) gang, targeting Indians, especially those coming on H1B short-term visas to work in the high-tech sector in Silicon Valley.
That the MAGAs are racists is not surprising – African Americans, Latinos and Arabs have long been targets of their vitriol.
However, Indian-origin STEM graduates, serenaded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and his presidential candidate of choice, Donald Trump, are a surprisingly new target group. Surprising, because Trump has surrounded himself with several high-profile members of the Indian diaspora –Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency along with Elon Musk, Kashyap “Kash” Patel has been appointed to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Stanford Medical School Professor Jay Bhattacharya will soon helm the National Institutes of Health, a research funding body that spends close to $45 billion on healthcare research every year.
But the appointment of Chennai-born Sriram Krishnan as Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence seems to have rubbed the MAGA crowd the wrong way. X has been throbbing with attacks on Indian techies in particular and immigrants from the country in general.
