Chandler Langevin faced censure from Palm Bay council and calls to resign from series of posts condemned as ‘vile’
A city councilmember in Florida is facing backlash from national Indian American organizations, members of Congress, and local residents after posting a series of social media messages that insulted Indian people living in the US and called for them to be deported en masse.
Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year, made derogatory comments about Indian people across several posts on the social media platform X over roughly three weeks this fall. He claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India, “or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger. Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.
I’ll never really understand why so many Indians think white supremacists will accept them, just because a lot of Indians also have bigoted views on skin color.
Like, they can bond with white supremacists over hating darker skin. But at the end of the day no white supremacist will view any Indian as “one of us”.
Hell, they still don’t really accept Irish or Catholics. They’re never going to accept an Indian.
I’m constantly surprised they haven’t turned on Rafael Cruz yet, but if they stay in power long enough. Eventually they’ll turn on him, Rubio, and everyone else that doesn’t have the complexion of a blank piece of paper.
They think if they do enough for white supremacy, they’ll be accepted. But the only thing white supremacists hate more than minorities, is “race traitors”. So they hate these people for being minorities and for betraying their own race, even though they hate that race too.
Because their definition of ‘white’ is ‘rich upper class’, because India is so classist it isn’t even funny. So they think they’re part of the ‘white crowd’.
Havent you watched indian tv commercials? All those whitening face cream? Years of being ruled by England, they are used to please white supremacists