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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,886 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 02:49 AM Thursday

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy bullied offline by his own base... slurs and calls to deport him

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced in a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed that he had quit Instagram and X after facing attacks for being Indian.

Ramaswamy previously wrote in a Dec. 17 New York Times op-ed that his “social media feeds [were] littered with hundreds of slurs … about ‘pajeets’ and ‘street shitters’ and calls to deport [him] ‘back to India,'” despite being born in the United States and never living elsewhere. He wrote in the WSJ piece that what he saw on social media did not reflect his real-world experiences.

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Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy bullied offline by his own base... slurs and calls to deport him (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Thursday OP
Shame... Karma much? Cha Thursday #1
Fuck him, he was willing to be go after black people to get right wing support JI7 Thursday #2
their going after him worse than they would a Black candidate! basically implying that he's not an American BlueWaveNeverEnd Thursday #4
THESE ARE HIS PEOPLE Skittles Thursday #3
+1 dalton99a Thursday #6
This IS your real-world experience, Vivek. These are your people. Norrrm Thursday #5
Well, ther do call Democrats the party of inclusion. Luz Thursday #7

JI7

(93,232 posts)
2. Fuck him, he was willing to be go after black people to get right wing support
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 03:01 AM
Thursday

but now that it's directed at him he is crying.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,886 posts)
4. their going after him worse than they would a Black candidate! basically implying that he's not an American
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 03:09 AM
Thursday

although born in America.

Luz

(899 posts)
7. Well, ther do call Democrats the party of inclusion.
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 07:30 AM
Thursday

Perhaps he should re-evaluate his own political ideas.

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