MAGA Outraged At 'Demon Worshiper' Kash Patel For Being Hindu [View all]

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In which he learns he belongs to a club that does not want him as a member.



FBI Director Kash Patel has very likely spent the last few years thinking that he was fully accepted by MAGA Americans as one of them. That he’d made it as a member of that club. It probably hadn’t even occurred to him that they might be racist towards him or that they would discriminate against him on the basis of his religion. After all, these were concepts made up by liberals to make Republicans look bad and trick people of color and non-Christians into voting for them. Obviously! That’s why we don’t need DEI anymore.

But, as we probably could have told him, he was wrong. Very, very wrong. Because the whole White Nationalist/Christian Nationalist thing has never actually been the whimsical edgelording that some in the GOP have tried to convince themselves it is, but rather a viewpoint widely shared among their electorate.

On Monday, Patel — who is Hindu — tweeted “Happy Diwali - celebrating the Festival of Lights around the world, as good triumphs over evil,” along with an illustrated “Happy Diwali” card depicting the Ganges river filled with lit candles. An innocuous post for those of us who are not insecure raging bigots.



I don’t know what good triumphing over evil looks like to Kash Patel, but I would argue that it looks nothing like his mentions did after he posted that.

Patel received nearly 3,000 responses, the vast majority of which informed him that it was illegal to be Hindu in the United States, that he should go back to India, and/or that he was a devil worshiper. Nice people! Super nice, tolerant people who definitely will not have to ban teachers of the future from telling the children that anything like this ever happened.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-outraged-at-demon-worshiper