I saw this post going viral by Richard Hanania, “Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can’t Play Football.”
I agree with Richard that this prejudice against Indians is illogical or irrational. Indian Americans have among the lowest crime and highest achievement on a per capita basis of any minority group. They are the opposite of Blacks in this regard. However, he wrongly attributes it racism, which is too strong of a word. It’s more like prejudice or bias. But also his theory of “aversion to sports,” “low testosterone and charisma,” and “dark skin” fails to explain why other dark-skinned, non-athletic and also culturally-underrepresented Americans do not face similar scorn, such as Haitians, Ethiopians, or Pakistanis.
If I had to guess, the prejudice is seated in the belief that Indians are competing with Whites for high-paying tech jobs and are underqualified, yet chosen because they undercut skilled, high-paying White labor. Blacks and Hispanics are not seen as competitive in this regard. East Asians, despite competing with Whites, are seen as equally skilled and qualified as Whites, instead of undercutting Whites, so there isn’t the same resentment.
His economics argument is unpersuasive given that there is no actual argument to speak of. His sources are just links to this blog or his Twitter account to a screenshot of a PDF that says, “The evidence for the overall wage effect — that high-skilled immigration raises wages and living standards for workers in practically every sector of the economy — is so compelling that it is hard to find another effect in the entire economics literature for which the evidence is more conclusive and overwhelming,” as if that constitutes actual evidence.
Surely, if it says it’s “overwhelming,” “conclusive,” and “compelling” then that settles it; what more evidence does anyone need? Case closed. At least in my earlier post I give actual data showing that H-1B visa holders represent only a small percentage of the ‘U.S. tech workforce’, at around 1-5%. Still, it’s not nothing. And in some industries or companies, it’s probably closer to 10%; I’ll leave it to the reader to decide how significant this is.
It’s not just the job market. There is also the observation that foreign nationals are ‘gaming’ Twitter/X. This is a well-documented phenomenon. As I wrote in the post “How ‘slop’ hijacks our senses,” Twitter/X’s revenue-sharing program has opened the floodgates to spam. This includes ‘AI slop’, polls, and ‘rage bait’, as well as fake accounts intended to push a political agenda or otherwise boost engagement. Your favorite ‘trad wife’ account may be some guy in an office in Bangladesh or something.
A notable incident occurred in September 2025 when a popular account @WallStreetMav, with 1.6 million followers, accidently posted a picture that was intended for his ‘alt account’ @realjessica05, which had over 500k followers at the time of its suspension, which neither was a woman named Jessica nor a real person.
This you? How many other fake accounts do you have?
Are you an Indian LARPing as American men and women? Are you a fed? Are you a foreign agent? pic.twitter.com/PMn3TO1fqG— Chawles Bawkley (@ChawlesBawkley1) September 8, 2025
At least Elon suspended the account after the deception came to light (he should have also banned @WallStreetMav to send a stronger message), but it shows how widespread the problem is. He was only caught because he messed up, but it’s the tip of the iceberg. For poor or developing countries, such as India, the revenue sharing program can provide significant income and has created an obvious economic incentive.