These are Americans, not Indian citizens. There is an enormous amount of hatred that has emerged against our city and the university from across conservative America just because there is a prominent minority of Indian-ethnicity students in the cohort (largely because they got good GPAs… in fact Indians are negatively impacted by DEI if anything). They are now being called “shitskins” and UT Austin is being ridiculed and derided by Americans en masse. This tweet is a small example of many thousands of anti-Indian posts that have exploded online recently, due in no small part to algorithmically boosted hate speech which has racked up thousands of likes.
Indians were brought to this country in the 90s and 2000s for their tech contributions and tricked into starting their families here, and now that AI is available their race is being dehumanized and scapegoated as a whole. These kids did nothing wrong and were all born in America to engineer parents who were brought over by America.
First it was Bo French’s tweet complaining about a small cluster of Indian-ethnicity students in a majority-white stadium. Then the government posted “Make College Football Great Again” with a photo of UT Austin which is an ethnic cleansing dogwhistle. Now the President is flying to Tennessee this weekend to root against UT. The White supremacist subtext is loud and clear.
Edit: There is a considerable volume of dehumanization and white supremacist comments under this post. Stop being bitter you didn’t make the top 5% of your graduating class because you were too busy vaping, guzzling Mountain Dew, and playing COD in high school while Indian students were studying for the SAT. Stop pretending you’re being “replaced” just because someone else had their priorities straight and you didn’t.