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Summary

JD Vance defended Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Musk aide after racist posts surfaced, including "Normalize Indian hate."

Elez resigned but was reinstated following Vance’s support, despite Vance’s wife being of Indian descent. Vance dismissed criticism, arguing past social media posts shouldn’t ruin careers.

Musk backed Elez after a public poll. Rep. Ro Khanna challenged Vance, who responded dismissively, sparking backlash.

The incident has intensified scrutiny of Musk’s hiring practices and Vance’s stance on racism.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh don't get all up in arms about the honor of usha Vance here. She is a Republican too and voted for these neo Nazis into office along with the other neo Nazis.

There's no honor to defend here, she's one of them.

[-] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Usha Vance comes from one of the richest most powerful castes in India, Kamma, so she was raised on an idea that she has some innate genetic superiority that makes her feel right at home with white supremacists.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I have known multiple rich South Asian people who insist that they are white and get very confused and upset if they encounter bigotry based on people thinking they aren't white. It's very odd.

I mean whatever, you want to declare yourself white, go for it. Just don't be surprised when racists tell you that you aren't.

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I don't know the cast system in india, but I've seen this sort of behavior a lot from immigrants. Specifically those that "came legally", and hate other immigrants and think themselves superior to other immigrants and blk/ltno people here. They think they are same as wt people because they are "elite" from their area of origin. And many times they justify this racist behavior from current gov by comparing similar racist stereotypes they have from their place of origin. They just moved country, they were racist, now there are people who are racist to them, but they still look down at others instead of standing united.

Sorry for bad abbreviation, kinda don't wanna leave words for it to be flagged somewhere by someone in future and tracked back.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

It's so sad because if you look at their resumes, Usha Vance is actually much more accomplished than her husband. Peter Thiel just prefers JD, I guess.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Peter Thiel just prefers JD, I guess.

Probably because of the penis.

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