“What Vivek Ramaswamy gets about communicating with US citizens — and other Hindu Americans don’t”, First Post, August 22, 2023:
“Hindus in America, both FOB fresh off the boat first-generation immigrants as well as US-born ABCDs American-Born Confused Desi, rarely stop to think about the deeper causes for their largely unsuccessful efforts in battling Hinduphobic racism.
For about 20 years, many Hindus in America have complained bitterly about Hinduphobic media, Hinduphobic school textbooks, Hinduphobic professors, Hinduphobic activists, and Hinduphobic politicians. At the moment, they are complaining, desperately, about rather nakedly obvious Hinduphobic legislation in California.
Yet, despite this complaining through many Facebook posts, WhatsApp forwards, X-Tweets, meetings with politicians, and some minor achievements like resolutions from government bodies appreciating Hindus and of late even recognising anti-Hindu prejudices, Hinduphobia continues to be normalised rapidly in American institutions and discourses. Lobbyists and enablers of Hinduphobia are able to push through ever more unbelievable lies about Hindus and Hinduism into mainstream respectability and lies, while the ability of their opponents to resist them remains equally pitiable and laughable……”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com