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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGAts Tell FBI Director Kash Patel To 'Go Back' Where He Came From After Celebratory Diwali Post
MAGAts Tell FBI Director Kash Patel To Go Back Where He Came From After Celebratory Diwali Post - NewsoneFBI Director Kash Patel is finding out the MAGA way that tapdancing for white nationalism by doing things like publicly condemning Assata Shakur and conveniently forgetting who Dylann Roof is will not make white conservatives forget for even a moment that he is an Indian man, and thus, a foreigner.
On Monday, Patel made the simple mistake of thinking it would be OK for him to publicly acknowledge Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, which is celebrated each autumn by more than a billion people, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists, while being a puppet for arguably the most vehemently xenophobic administration in recent history.
If Patel were as good at knowing his audience as he is at helping the Trump administration pretend Antifa is a real organization, he might have predicted that his simple and harmless Diwali shoutout would result in a mob of Krazed and Klanny Kristians yelling at him to go back to India, get out of my country...."
Maybe Patel was asleep last year, when Vice President JD Vance was compelled to do a weak job of defending his Indian wife and children against the onslaught of racist and xenophobic MAGA attacks that erupted on social media the second he was announced as ...Donald Trumps running mate.
On Monday, Patel made the simple mistake of thinking it would be OK for him to publicly acknowledge Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, which is celebrated each autumn by more than a billion people, including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists, while being a puppet for arguably the most vehemently xenophobic administration in recent history.
If Patel were as good at knowing his audience as he is at helping the Trump administration pretend Antifa is a real organization, he might have predicted that his simple and harmless Diwali shoutout would result in a mob of Krazed and Klanny Kristians yelling at him to go back to India, get out of my country...."
Maybe Patel was asleep last year, when Vice President JD Vance was compelled to do a weak job of defending his Indian wife and children against the onslaught of racist and xenophobic MAGA attacks that erupted on social media the second he was announced as ...Donald Trumps running mate.
Hey, we live and learn, live and learn.
(Well, at least... some of us do.)
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MAGAts Tell FBI Director Kash Patel To 'Go Back' Where He Came From After Celebratory Diwali Post (Original Post)
B.See
14 hrs ago
OP
For the record, Patel was born in Garden City, New Jersey. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
12 hrs ago
#2
He's an American citizen only through birthright citizenship, which MAGAts want to do away with.
W_HAMILTON
12 hrs ago
#4
democratsruletheday
(1,666 posts)1. this happened a few days ago, but its worth repeating....
he's the guy who wanted to be cool in high school and college but wasn't cuz a lot of the 'cool' kids were racist assholes. I'd feel sorry for him if he was a decent human being but he's not
newdeal2
(4,358 posts)3. I don't feel bad for him but I do still condemn the racism
MAGA is ugly and we need to make that very clear.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,819 posts)2. For the record, Patel was born in Garden City, New Jersey. . . . nt
W_HAMILTON
(9,735 posts)4. He's an American citizen only through birthright citizenship, which MAGAts want to do away with.
B.See
(7,147 posts)5. Doesn't matter to MAGA.... To MAGA,
he's the wrong SHADE.