Online nativists are exploiting middle-class economic worries to stir hate.
For many Texans, the second weekend of September was a moment for the state to shine. The Texas Longhorns, the University of Texas at Austin’s storied football team, upset the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes in a dramatic comeback win.
But for Bo French, the Republican candidate for railroad commissioner, a powerful position that was born to regulate railroads but today oversees the state’s sizable oil and gas industry, the most notable part was the number of South Asians in the crowd.
“I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined,” he posted on X over a picture of celebrating students. In case there was any ambiguity as to the problem, he added that images like the one he shared showed “how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.”
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Do supposed patriots really buy this shit? The U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Imagine the U.S. if the great migrations of the late 19th and early 20th century had not occurred. The Trumps showed up from Germany in 1885.
I agree! Sometimes I wonder if some Americans have forgotten their roots! Is there a time frame within which forgetting (their roots) makes sense? 1 century, 2 centuries?
What is so wild and insane about this guy, and specifically this take, is that while he is a huge HUGE critic of Islam, and that was already going to be an issue just based on Texas's demographics, he places all brown people in the same religious group.
To him, based on his comments, there is no difference between a Middle Eastern/Arab person and an Indian. Mind you, at least where I grew up outside of Houston, we had a huge Hindu population, and the parents always beefed over their religious beliefs, and for elections, if someone ran for a position and it was known they were Hindu, the Muslims would vote for the other person, and vice versa.
To me, it just shows his arrogance and how incredibly narrow-minded he is.