Indian in Canada explains he doesn’t like it when Westerners anticipate he will act like an Indian.
Instead of being irritated with Indians for behaving as Indians do, he blames Westerners for observing he is Indian.
Peak Indian behavior.
I want to share a deeply personal and heartfelt message about an issue I face regularly.
I was born in India and have been living in Canada for the past 13 years, where I am now proud to be a Canadian citizen. Despite building my life here for over a decade, I frequently experience a complete lack of basic respect in public spaces simply because of how I look.
Too often, people make immediate, negative assumptions about me before I even say a word.
In restaurants, servers assume I won't tip.
In public transit lines, people expect me to push or cut ahead.
In everyday interactions, there is a pervasive stereotype that I will be cheap, pushy, or try to take shortcuts.
It is exhausting and humiliating to be judged by these generalized tropes. While some individuals may behave poorly, it is unfair and deeply damaging to project those behaviors onto an entire demographic. No group is a monolith, and every person deserves to be treated as an individual.
A few years ago, I traveled to Georgia. Throughout my trip—from immigration checkpoints to taxi rides—I faced cold, skeptical treatment. It wasn't until I mentioned that I live in Canada and showed my Canadian documentation that the dynamic suddenly shifted and I was treated with courtesy. While I was relieved to be treated well, it left a bitter taste in my mouth: Why should basic human respect depend on proving my nationality rather than my humanity?
It breaks my heart to see how generalized prejudice and stereotypes are impacting South Asian people globally. It is frustrating, sad, and unacceptable.
I share this not out of anger, but out of a hope for greater awareness. We need to stop viewing individuals through the lens of harmful stereotypes and start treating everyone with the fundamental dignity they deserve.
“Faggots drive slow”
- City of Toronto, probably
New 30 km/h area speed limit signs will be posted at neighbourhood entry and exit points. Once you enter a signed area, the 30 km/h speed limit applies throughout the local road network until you leave that area.
Slower speeds help reduce the risk of serious collisions and make neighbourhood streets safer.
Learn more about the change: toronto.ca/LocalSpeed
ALT Two men walking and chatting on a sidewalk, one pushing a baby stroller near a white picket fence and brick house.
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"The reason we dominate high positions is because of our high IQs. Not because of nepotism, in-group favoritism, gatekeeping, subversive allegiance or exclusive networking."™️
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“You should look this up because it will make you laugh… the Chinese Immigration rate is zero. China is Chinese and weirdly the ADL does not have a problem with that. It’s only White countries where they have a problem with it.”
-Tucker Carlson
Biblical definition of assimilation:
"Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children...could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?...Remember me, O my God, for good.
- the Prophet Nehemiah
I’ve heard very few people express frustration with those that fled communism or the extremely few meritorious winners from the early, limited programs.
I can buy much of what Palmer says.
He glosses over some realities with “loss of worker trust” — the net is this: if the government importing foreigners is either import enough to destabilize culture, work, and society or none *and* we deport everyone already imported, a growing segment of heritage Americans will support the latter and *only* the latter.
That loss of trust extends well past immigration. It shows a government so feckless that the loss of trust is in the government as a whole.
Immigration policy must be driven by the present, not the past, and business leaders are too terrified of the left AND the right to acknowledge this.
Recent H1B discourse revolves around a longstanding immigration sleight-of-hand. H1B proponents point to exceptional people who came here decades ago as if they represent the current state of the program in the same way that advocates for low-skill/illegal immigration point to very favorable immigrant crime/welfare/education/etc statistics that do, in truth, have them beating native-born Americans on many fronts.
It is all a sham. The world that created those statistics, people, and businesses no longer exists. Brilliant but desperate Vietnamese fathers who fled communism have nothing in common with young men from Honduras, and the crime rates/economic acccomplishments/integration of the former should not be used to justify mass migration of the latter.
Nor should the accomplishments of people who managed to get an H1B visa in the 90s (when the program was capped to just 65,000 visas) be used to justify staffing agencies and tech companies using the program to replace American jobs for less money. The obvious abuse going on is politically suicidal and something that even the most ardent supporters of the visa should want to crack down on, no immigration program can possibly survive the obvious and widely known reality of what is going on. I am a longtime outspoken advocate for stealing the best people from other countries to make our own better, runaway abuse of existing programs robs the government of the worker trust required to do so.
Lots of people in the tech space know this. Even the dumb people are smart enough to see it. Nobody actually believes these are all incredible people with unique talents performing jobs no American can. Everyone knows the guy in Cubicle Bay 7 doing mediocre but functional web design for half the salary of his American peers is no savant and doesn't meet the statutory requirements for his H-1B visa.
Unfortunately, most people with power or profile are terrified that any public statement or acknowledgement will get them attacked by the right (You guys have been screwing over American workers for years with visa abuse, you damn hypocrite!) or the left (You are racist, sexist, misogynist, and sucking up to this fascist administration!). Or, more likely, both. I know too many tech execs in particular who feel trapped, like the only winning move is to stay silent.
JD is blowing the whole thing wide open by putting facts and stats front and center that nobody wants to engage with. Critics will talk about anything and everything else but these damning facts and this obvious truth, that H1B visas serve neither their original purpose, legal purpose, invented purpose, or the American people.
India is responsible for millions of impersonation related scam calls to the United States each year, targeting the most vulnerable members of our citizenry.
Billions of dollars lost from our poorest and weakest to these vultures.
Indian calls represent over 90% of the entire Medicare/Social Security scam call industry.
Their government could shut it down.
They don’t.
It doesn’t take a bigot to have a problem with India.
Millions, not dozens or hundreds.
FBI IC3 logged over 32,000 government impersonation complaints in 2025 alone (~$798M losses), plus tech support scams adding $1-2B more in reported losses. Actual calls placed by Indian centers run far higher—tens of millions yearly—based on case data, traces, and spam volume estimates (billions of total US spam/robocalls monthly, with a large share of these specific types originating there). Complaints capture only a tiny fraction of attempts.
A gem. Captures the situation perfectly.
Pick poopoo candidates like Vivek, win poopoo prizes. The corrupt @ohiogop has nobody to blame but themselves.
I don’t precisely know when in history the genesis of the Indian occurred.
I do know if I could go back it would un-occur.
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Very well said, but even could be the top 1% at everything measured by those that think they know who should come here and they would still be 0% American.
Having the shared history. The blood. The togetherness.
The Us that is the US.
