Liberals Aren't Going to Protect Indians From Racism
Without a historical victim narrative, you're on your own.
Hostility towards Indians is on the rise. A 2026 survey showed that 50% of Indians in America experience frequent racism and 25% have been called a slur.1 Racism against Indians on the internet has increased by 115% from 2023 to 2025.2 Indians were once seen as a “model minority” due to their low crime rates and success in medicine, but their abuse of America’s immigration policy is upending their reputation.
The H-1B Visa program was created for companies that needed foreign workers with specialized knowledge, but that’s not how it’s used. If a manager needs cheap labor, they can hire an Indian with an H-1B visa.3 The applicants often lie about their experience to get approved then engage in nepotism after they’re hired.4 Decades of abuse have made Indians significantly more successful in the tech industry than they otherwise would be.
In my hometown, you could buy a 3-bedroom house twenty years ago for $300K-$500K. Like many middle-class neighborhoods, those homes are now worth $1M+. I was recently informed those properties are being bought up by Indians, in cash, then they pack the houses with 10-12 of their extended family members. My once-homogeneous hometown isn’t thrilled about this.
Indians’ refusal to assimilate to the American way of life only makes their situation worse.
India and America are cultural opposites. Americans value individualism, Indians are collectivist. Americans value transparency, Indians prioritize saving face. Americans are primarily Christian, Indians are primarily Hindu.
Hygienically, Indians are from another universe. In 2014, over 600 million Indians were still defecating outdoors. This became such a public health hazard that the Indian government had to launch a campaign to convince them why they should poop indoors. Americans use indoor plumbing.
Indians cook with spices so pungent that it doesn’t just seep into their skin and clothes, it penetrates the walls. Ask landlords who have rented to Indians or tenants who have followed Indian families. It can take months of deep cleaning, or even demolition, to fully get the smell out. Americans prioritize not smelling offensive.
Indians are far more invasive in how they communicate. Indians have more enmeshed families (hence packing 12 people into a 3 bedroom house), so it’s normal for them to probe about private information like salary and marriage details. Americans consider it offensive to even ask. Americans also prefer 2-3 feet of distance to feel comfortable while talking to someone, whereas Indians stand or sit too close for anyone’s liking.
These vast cultural differences combined with widespread economic abuse can only persist in the same country for so long. Eventually there will be a breaking point. If Indian abuse of the American economy isn’t fully curtailed and reversed — it will become acceptable for Americans to be openly hostile towards Indians.
This might sound unlikely given how much racism is frowned upon in America. Explicit racism is considered uncouth, vulgar, and rude to most people in polite society, which it usually is. Merely being accused of racism could shatter your professional prospects. But these values come with conditions.
In America, some groups are coveted more than others. Black people are the most protected group by far. The primary slur against black people is so powerful that most people won’t even let themselves think it. If you’ve noticed any patterns in black behavior that you dislike, articulating it immediately puts your reputation at risk.
Jewish people are the second most protected group. You can tell Jewish people are less protected than black people because you can freely reference ‘Jews’ out loud without turning around to make sure nobody hears you (“unless you put a little stank on it”, to quote Louis CK). While America’s questionable relationship with Israel is causing more anti-Jewish sentiments, being accused of antisemitism can still have irreversible reputational costs.
You might notice a similarity between black and Jewish people: both of them have a historical victim narrative. In case you haven’t heard — black people used to be slaves and Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. Black and Jewish people are also contributors to American culture. From Miles Davis to Michael Jackson to Jay-Z — the influence of black musicians on American culture is undeniable. Jewish people’s impact on the film industry, TV shows and comedy is also obvious. If Hitler had a bacon egg and cheese on an everything bagel while hungover in downtown Manhattan, he might have looked the other way.
Indians don’t have a historical victim narrative and their influence on American culture is negligible. Many Indians are proud of their overwhelming presence in Silicon Valley (the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, and YouTube are all Indian) — but Indians aren’t innovators. They’re managers. Running a company isn’t nearly as impressive as inventing world-changing technology. When people think of American innovation, they think of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, not Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai. “Butter Chicken” isn’t enough to get them over the finish line.
As hostility towards Indians continues to rise, the affluent white liberals you saw cheering on black people burning down cities for George Floyd will be silent in comparison. The Trump administration signed an executive order in 2025 to investigate antisemitism in universities. That’s unlikely to happen for anti-Indian sentiments. Without the 1-2 punch of victimhood and cultural impact, accusations of racism towards your group will fall on deaf ears.
Vaishnav, M., Badrinathan, S., Kapur, D., & Robaina, A. (2026, February 19). Indian Americans in a time of turbulence: 2026 survey results. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/research/2026/02/indian-americans-in-a-time-of-turbulence-2026-survey-results
Stop AAPI Hate. (2026). Rising anti-South Asian hate: Online slur trends 2023–2025. https://stopaapihate.org/reports/
Mishel, L., & Eisenbrey, R. (2021). H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels. Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/
Center for Immigration Studies. (2025, November 20). ‘Industrialised’ fraud in the H-1B visa program. https://cis.org/Parsing-Immigration-Policy/Industrialized-Fraud-H1B-Visa-Program
i think another factor in them not being protected by liberals is that women usually don’t consider them attractive. they’re not exotic to women as other minorities
Timely. Currently traveling through Switzerland and the volume of Jeets on this train - and throughout every location we stop at - is astonishing. It’s been a frequent topic of conversation with my group. The not-so inconspicuous impatience that western lib travelers emanate from their faces when a Jeet is clearly disregarding customs, knowing that somehow their tax dollars are involved for them to afford these excursions. The mass accessibility to Nice Things has made them entirely inaccessible. Luckily, you can still walk 10 minutes out of the main area in any given location to escape the Hindu hordes taking IG pics. But why am I on a jam-packed train in Interlaken, 80/20 Jeet ratio, only to wrestle my way off the train (because they don’t wait for passengers to de-board first), only to be met with 3 Indian restaurants that are full of more Jeets?