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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNick Fuentes and the Groypers: How Foreign Bots Built America's Anti-Indian Hate Movement
https://swarajyamag.com/commentary/nick-fuentes-and-the-groypers-how-foreign-bots-built-americas-anti-indian-hate-movementKISHAN KUMAR
Dec 27, 2025
Lots here. This kind of summarizes the post.
Nick Fuentes is not the most intelligent figure in American politics. He is not the most influential. He is not the most original. But he may be one of the most revealing.
He exposes the fragility of conservative spaces that flirted with extremism and now find themselves unable to quarantine it. He exposes the opportunism of platforms that prefer explosive bigotry to boring decency. He exposes a media ecosystem so enamoured with disruption that it legitimises malevolence as interesting politics.
And he exposes a terrifying truth about radicalisation in the digital age: That a lie, if repeated with enough binary violence and algorithmic assistance, can eventually pretend to be a movement.
Fuentes anti-Indian hostility, his open contempt for Hindus, his selected admiration for Islamist authoritarianism, his willingness to inflate relevance through digital fraud, and his conscious attempt to fracture conservative communities by injecting racial hatred, all of this is part of one project. If society treats this merely as another loud boy screaming into a microphone, it will misjudge the scale of the threat. Because this is not about noise. It is about precedent. Once it becomes normal to hate Indians loudly, it will become easier to hate everyone else. That is how hatred works. It never ends where it begins.
He exposes the fragility of conservative spaces that flirted with extremism and now find themselves unable to quarantine it. He exposes the opportunism of platforms that prefer explosive bigotry to boring decency. He exposes a media ecosystem so enamoured with disruption that it legitimises malevolence as interesting politics.
And he exposes a terrifying truth about radicalisation in the digital age: That a lie, if repeated with enough binary violence and algorithmic assistance, can eventually pretend to be a movement.
Fuentes anti-Indian hostility, his open contempt for Hindus, his selected admiration for Islamist authoritarianism, his willingness to inflate relevance through digital fraud, and his conscious attempt to fracture conservative communities by injecting racial hatred, all of this is part of one project. If society treats this merely as another loud boy screaming into a microphone, it will misjudge the scale of the threat. Because this is not about noise. It is about precedent. Once it becomes normal to hate Indians loudly, it will become easier to hate everyone else. That is how hatred works. It never ends where it begins.
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Nick Fuentes and the Groypers: How Foreign Bots Built America's Anti-Indian Hate Movement (Original Post)
usonian
2 hrs ago
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"It never ends where it starts." This is the basic and most important thing about hate.
Biophilic
2 hrs ago
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Biophilic
(6,388 posts)1. "It never ends where it starts." This is the basic and most important thing about hate.
It develops a life of its own.
usonian
(23,358 posts)3. If "love is blind", how much "blinder" is hate?
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
underpants
(194,640 posts)2. Good read.
It is important to be clear here. Fuentes did not discover racism against Indians. He noticed that it was available.
The last time he got much real attention he faded into to the background, well see how much he lasts this time. If he gets any real traction that will be alarming.
The scramble in the absence of Kirk for clicks is quite vicious as seen by the Erika Kirk Grieffest last week.
The last time he got much real attention he faded into to the background, well see how much he lasts this time. If he gets any real traction that will be alarming.
The scramble in the absence of Kirk for clicks is quite vicious as seen by the Erika Kirk Grieffest last week.