MAGA Civil War Takes No Time to Go Full Racist
The MAGA civil war wasted no time in sliding into all-out racism after Donald Trump’s government efficiency adviser Vivek Ramaswamy dared to criticize American culture.
An attempted ode to a long-lost, greater America manifested itself as an X post analyzing why “top tech companies hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans.” Ramaswamy, born and raised in Ohio to Indian Hindu immigrant parents, argued that “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” celebrating jocks and prom queens over the valedictorians and math Olympiads, while watching too much Friends and not enough movies like the 2014 drama Whiplash.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024
But the DOGE appointee got the tone wrong, according to MAGA hardliners who are now in meltdown. Ultra-conservative talking head Laura Loomer, as usual, led the charge.
“If they ban me for sticking up for all of you, it’s been nice fighting for all of you and President Trump,” she wrote Thursday.
Loomer also expresseded dismay that an Indian national, Sriram Krishnan, was appointed President-elect Trump’s AI adviser.
Her messages quickly centered on skin color and “culture,” with one post reading: “Silly white people.”
With the mask slipping, she added sarcastically: “Stop watching Boy Meets World and turn on Bollywood so you can watch rape culture steal your job culture.”
She was referencing a point made by Ramaswamy that “a culture that venerates Cory from Boy Meets World...will not produce the best engineers.” Cory, played by Ben Savage, was the main character on the beloved ABC show which aired from 1993 to 2000. He is yet to weigh into the argument.
Another X commentator could barely conceal their race-loaded ire, randomly picking a name out of their “Great Americans” hat and pitting them against… every Indian person ever.
“Vivek you’ve accomplished a lot but it’s OK to just say you don’t understand American culture,” the X post started, balanced in comparison to the bile they were about to unleash.
“Neil Armstrong, greater than any Indian to ever live and product of American culture, chose the less academic Purdue over MIT because he liked the football team.”
“Working Class Media” then added its 10 cents on the “Indian mindset” and “third-world culture” that Elon Musk’s right-hand man apparently embodies.
“Vivek Ramaswamy hasn’t escaped the Indian mindset,” the surreal take began. “It takes more than the ability to do math, science & coding to build American innovation.
“It takes the Western Culture: Work-life balance, the love for humanity & the arts. Third-world culture hasn’t reached that point.”
“Petey B” thought he scored with a message about covertly laughing at his neighbor, whom he claims to actually “adore.”
Without so much as a suggestion of a comma, he said: “This tweet by Vivek is terrible and sounds like my Indian neighbor whom I adore and are family friends with but mock at every chance I get for abusing the system while he laughs. So what do you really think of Americans?”
The posts had well over one million views put together, and were just a handful of thousands directed at Ramaswamy. Another post, with over 150k views, said he was “attacking white American culture.”
Ramaswamy’s post that kicked off the madness came amid debate on whether the U.S. should continue approving H-1B visas to foreign workers. Ramaswamy made clear he favors the program, concluding that modern Americans simply aren’t focused enough to become the world’s best engineers.
“Alright, back to real work today,” he wrote on X Friday morning, presumably after watching Whiplash— and not Friends—all night.
The flurry of anti-DOGE posts came after Sriram Krishnan took a battering from MAGA-ites. It got so bad that David Sacks, a prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur appointed to the Trump administration, stepped forward to condemn the nasty tone on Christmas Day.
He quoted an X message that asked “Did any of yall vote for this Indian to run America?” alongside an image of Krishnan, and pointed out that the AI expert has been a U.S. citizen for a decade.
“He’s not ‘running America.’ He’s advising on A.I. policy. He will have no influence over U.S. immigration policy. These attacks have become crude, and not in the holiday spirit. I’m signing off now. Have a merry Christmas,” Sacks added. He later called the outpouring of ire towards Krishnan “division grift.”
