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Ajay Jain Bhutoria issued a blistering condemnation of the exploding wave of anti-Indian American hate being fueled by MAGA extremists and amplified by reckless statements from figures like Eric Trump.
“I am personally bombarded with hundreds of racist comments on almost every single post I make on X — ‘Go back to India,’ slurs, threats, and worse — all from MAGA accounts,” Bhutoria declared. “This is the poisonous fruit of non-stop anti-immigrant scapegoating. The very same week CNN exposed how MAGA’s rhetoric has turned Indian Americans into the latest target of surging hate crimes, Eric Trump smeared New York Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani by claiming he ‘hates the Indian population.’ The hypocrisy is staggering. Your family’s rhetoric is literally endangering Indian Americans, Eric — spare us the fake concern.”
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While we are told to ‘go back home, Indian Americans are busy running America forward. We lead Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. We are the doctors saving your lives, the engineers building your future, the entrepreneurs creating millions of American jobs, and the highest tax-paying community in the nation. We gave America Vice President Kamala Harris, NASA astronauts, Nobel laureates, and countless small-business owners who keep Main Street alive. Yet this is the thanks we get — coordinated online hate mobs and real-world threats.”
“This is not ‘free speech.’ This is stochastic terrorism dressed up as politics. Indian Americans will not be intimidated or silenced. We demand that leaders on both sides of the aisle denounce this bigotry in the strongest terms and take real action to protect the communities that make America the greatest nation on Earth.”
Ajay Jain Bhutoria is the former National Finance Committee Member and Advisor to President Biden on the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.