Indian Culture Attacked In U.s. Politics? The Zohran Mamdani Controversy

What began arsenic a elemental luncheon turned into a large wind of controversy. New York City Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani — perchance nan city’s adjacent politician — was filmed eating pinch his hands during an interview. A believe communal successful South Asian households, but 1 that drew racist ire from Republican Congressman Brandon Gill, who called Mamdani “uncivilised” and told him to “go backmost to nan Third World.” The net quickly responded, pointing retired not conscionable nan profoundly prejudiced quality of Gill’s comments, but besides nan glaring hypocrisy — fixed he’s joined to a female of Indian origin, whose ain begetter was seen eating pinch his hands successful nan US. As disapproval mounts, Gill finds himself astatine nan centre of a racism and civilization storm. Is this a taste misunderstanding aliases deliberate dog-whistle politics? Watch our afloat report.