Why Do People Hate Indians?

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I reconvene with gay bestie

Rajeev Ram

to do the needful and assess the merits of

Richard Hanania

’s recent article Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can’t Play Football.

This marks Rajeev’s fifth appearance on the podcast—many of you will recall his appearance last December to discuss the Brahmin Question, as well as his initial appearance way back in April 2024 to explain Hindusim to wypipo.

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Topics include:

• Has Rajeev noticed an on-the-ground uptick in anti-Indian sentiment?

• The different axes of competition between Whites and Indians in America

• Indian fluency in English gives Americans greater visibility into anti-White sentiment in India, exposes them to LinkedIn scams, etc.

• Is the hostility to Indians really “racism” per se, or just frustration with immigrants being annoying in the same way the Irish and Italians were?

• Rajeev bemoans the lack of popular Indian sex symbols; Walt wonders whatever happened to Freida Pinto (after confusing her with Frida Kahlo)

• Indian passion for Cricket and Tennis and why Indians suck ass at sportsball

• Are East Asians less annoying because of their secularism and state-driven rejection of traditionalism? Were Asians just as despised prior to WW2?

• Indian linguistic context-sensitivity might grate against Rightoid sensibilities

• Walt complains about the H1Bs he worked with at Deloitte

• Walt rejects

  Richard Hanania
  ’s strict reliance on survey data and contends that higher order characteristics are impossible to measure except anecdotally

• Why Indians are like Bug Pokémon—Indian culture can’t be compartmentalized or easily flattened into something legible to westerners a la Chinese culture; to understand India at all a Whiteboi kind of just has to become an India Guy

• Walt argues that because Muslims were more legible to White Christians as fellow monotheists they were both easier to hate and easier to reconcile with

• Orthodoxy vs. orthopraxy in Hinduism compared to Western Monotheism (see this interesting comment from

  Mac Tonight
  to
  Anuradha Pandey
  )

• Most White Americans have no understanding of Hinduism beyond Apu Lore (listen to Rajeev’s first episode on this pod explaining Hinduism)

• Why Indians occupy an uncanny valley position for wypipo as Far Caucasoids

• Why Rajeev supports eating beef

• Rajeev reflects on the strange dynamic between White women and Indian women

• The Indian-American community in Arizona

• Walter contends that Indian-Americans need to make more cultural products with the deliberate goal of making wypipo familiar with their culture

• The inflationary impact of H1B remittances on the Indian economy

• Rajeev predicts that second and third generation Indians will be a lot more sportsball-focused than their moneymaxxing parents

• It’s annoying to wypipo that Indians keep their names and they’re so damn long

• Why do FOB Indians smell so bad?

• Walt finds North Indians more annoying but enjoys how they lie like the Irish

• As evidence that the brown-nosing arrogant stereotype is true Walt notes that when he worked at Deloitte they had an extensive training apparatus for working with Indian teams and dealing with the vast cultural differences, which Walt contends are bound to grate on any cognitively conservative neurotype

• Rajeev rants about midwit Indian women

• Walt asks Rajeev what Indians are saying amongst themselves about anti-Indian animus and their long-term political drift

• Walt argues that Hindus in the West can play an essential role in helping wypipo rekindle a more embodied connection with our own pagan past (speaking of shout out to

  Sai Ψ
  for teaching me that Hermes is not, in fact, a small blue Jewish man)

• Read Rajeev’s post on Navaratri

• Why rejecting syncretism a la Monotheism is a more powerful social technology when it comes to building empires but not for self-actualization

• Rajeev rants about Hindutva lies

• Walt asks Rajeev his take on the Charlie Kirk shooting

• Does Rajeev still feel a sense of caste obligation?

• What is the Hindu stance on homosexuality?

• Walt defends Bride Capture for BPD girls

• Rajeev and Walt shit on Gandhi

• Walt rants against the Puritans

• Monotheism as an app versus syncretism as an open source stack

• Syncretism/Polytheism as Ti-Fe versus Monotheism as Te-Fi

• Are Dalits making ChatGPT shittier?

• Rajeev has moved against LLMs