Ask Katie McHugh knows the bitter fact of tweeting only too well by now. The conservative news website Breitbart has fired one of their most prolific writers after a series of tweets by her, loaded with more than a mere speck of racism and racist innuendoes.
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McHugh’s downfall came in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack, that has left seven people dead, dozens injured. She tweeted her dismay and ire, shortly before 7 p.m. the same day: “There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there.”
And then came the part and parcel of twitter rants. The actor Pej Vahdat, who is of Iranian American origin, tweeted his disgust at McHugh, showing his affront at what seemed a thought process to either exterminate all the Muslims in the UK or to deport them en masse, to God knows where: “You’re a real moron.”
To that, McHugh’s attempt to devastate, thrust mortally her verbal opponent with one ‘Khallas’ move as used by the WWE champion Jinder Mahal: “You’re an Indian.”
McHugh was not exactly extolling the virtues of Vahdat when she termed him as an “Indian.” She didn’t have know about the contribution of the Indian American physicians, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and others in mind, or the fact that they are the wealthiest community in the US.
McHugh with one sly, insidious word, wanted to debase and put Vahdat in his ‘place’, knock him down, end the Whac-a-Mole game. In her stupid, racist mind, what better word than ‘Indian’?
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By using that word, McHugh has showed she was a racist trash like so many other Alt Right conservatives, who project moral uprightness, but would probably loath a dog whose color is not pristine white: she wanted to dismiss Vahdat for his color of skin and express her deep disgust for a person she thought was an immigrant, from a poor country, not fit to even get into an argument with.
To link all colored people – Muslims, Indians, so forth, in a series of tweets, only exposed McHugh’s sick xenophobia.
By Premji
