American writer slammed for racist feedback in opposition to Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy

Prominent American conservative media pundit and writer Ann Coulter is going through backlash for making racist feedback in opposition to two Indian-American US presidential contenders — Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy — by calling them “Hindu business”, in response to a media report.

During Wednesday evening’s first Republican presidential debate, Coulter characterised a heated change between former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as “Hindu business,” NBC News reported on Thursday.

Coulter, 61, in her tweet on the social media platform X mentioned: “Nikki and Vivek are involved in some Hindu business, it seems”.

On Thursday, she began to face backlash, with Ramaswamy’s senior adviser and communications director, Tricia McLaughlin saying that Coulter might tweet no matter she wished to.

“Ann can tweet whatever she wants to,” McLaughlin mentioned in her tweet.

She additional mentioned: “Vivek shares and lives by the same Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on — and the way Vivek lives his family life offers a positive example for their own children and grandchildren”.

Ramaswamy, 38, is Hindu whereas 51-year-old Haley was born right into a Sikh household and is a Christian, which she has been vocal about in her public life.

The heated change Coulter appeared to confer with wasn’t even about faith however quite US help to Ukraine and Israel, the report mentioned.

Both conservatives and liberals have criticised Coulter for her remark.

Replying to Coulter’s racist remark, a random particular person in a tweet mentioned: “Nikki Haley was born Sikh and is a practising Christian, you racist troglodyte”.

Sangay Mishra, the writer of “Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans”, said: “Completely expected that she would attack them but using a white racist trope invoking a religion is beyond disgusting”.

It isn’t the first time this election cycle that Coulter has been in the news for racist comments about Haley.

In February, she was criticised for telling Haley to “go back to your own country” as part of a larger tirade on a podcast.

“What’s with the worshipping of the cows? They’re all starving over there,” she said during an appearance on the “The Mark Simone Show” podcast. “Did you know they have a rat temple, where they worship rats?”

Coulter has additionally known as Haley a “bimbo” and a “preposterous creature.”

Haley did not instantly reply to requests for remark, the report mentioned.

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Aug 25, 2023