Anti-South Asian online hate surged in extremist spaces after election, report says - Some online rhetoric centered around Indians “stealing jobs” and threatening “white livelihood,” the nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate said.

Anti-South Asian online hate surged in extremist spaces after election, report says
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By Reuters and NBC News
2025-02-20 18:32:42GMT


A detail of a H1B visa stamp marking in a passport.Evgenia Parajanian / Getty Images

Anti-Asian online hate in the U.S. in extremist online spaces has seen an “alarming surge” since the 2024 U.S. elections won by Donald Trump, data released Thursday by nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate showed.

January 2025 marked the highest number of online anti-Asian slurs by month since monitoring began in August 2022, Stop AAPI Hate said, with a total of almost 88,000 slurs. The group examined forums such as Reddit, X and 4chan.

The surge was mostly driven by anti South Asian slurs, which increased by 75% in January, versus November.

Some online rhetoric centered around Indians “stealing jobs” and threatening “white livelihood,” the nonprofit group said.

Similarly, threats of violence against Asians online rose by over 50% in both December and January, compared to November, the data showed.

Anti-East Asian slurs increased amid perceived threats from China, the report said.

At the end of last year, an intense debate played out over social media among MAGA loyalists after some of President Donald Trump’s advisers expressed support of legal, high-skill immigration.

Some on the far right criticized Sriram Krishnan, whom Trump appointed to an artificial intelligence advisory role, for past statements in support of green cards for skilled workers. Racist attacks ensued.

“There were violent anti-Indian threats aimed at [Vivek] Ramaswamy, J.D. and Usha Vance, and Sriram Krishnan,” the report said.

Amid the feud, Trump said he supported H-1B visas. In the past, he’s made comments about the program, saying, “We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers.”

Indians account for the bulk of H-1B U.S. visas.

Online hate against Americans of Asian, especially South Asian, ancestry had risen steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the rise to prominence of politicians from that community, Stop AAPI Hate said in the build-up to the November elections.

 

[curbside2]

Not even the people I know that don’t consider themselves racist seem to like Indians. Decades of scam phone calls, smelling, and being rude has done them zero favors. It reminds me of how people use to talk about gypsies.

 

[ethanity]

Well they can always move back to India and use the money they've been squeezing from Western countries no? Just make your Indian paradise like the Chinese have and everybody wins!

 

[TowinKarz]

Indians are not Asians - we have developed unique slurs for both that have been in use for decades.

I will hear no counter-arguments on this.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Nature is healing.

 

[Chuck McGill]

Rebrand yourself AAPI all you want, you'll still be lower on the racial totem pole than the blackest nigger in the jungle.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

"Anti-south asian hate". Lol, hey kikes, when you propagandize, the more of a mouthful your gay divisive cause is, the less likely it is to take off.

Anyone remember the last one, "Stop Asian Hate"? Which had to be killed in it's Semitic Crib because all people saw was niggers killing off Asians in NYC subways. Oy Vey! Shut it down! You genuinely don't hate the Kike 4th Estate Media enough.

 

[Marvin]

Indians are not Asians - we have developed unique slurs for both that have been in use for decades.

I will hear no counter-arguments on this.

I've just gone back to using "oriental".

 

[JohnnyG]

Indians are not Asians - we have developed unique slurs for both that have been in use for decades.

They're really pushing to keep their "Coalition of the Fringes" together against Whitey aren't they?

Only problems are that actual Asians knew exactly who was attacking them on the street, it's hard to get an East Asian to view himself as a muh'pressed victim (exception for low-performing second generation fatties), and I don't think Asians have sympathy that India can't flood the West with a gorillion more "high skilled" visa fraudsters.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Indians have made me less racist on average overall. I refuse to call native Americans Indians that’s just insulting to even a savage. I understand why China can’t stand them as neighbors and sympathize, and I feel sorry for countries like England and Canada who have them in droves, so that’s 4 races I now appreciate more because of Indians

 

[I Shidded I Farded I Came]

People have been shit talking Indians on the internet ever since they started posting in large numbers. Hell, even before that when the "SARRR I AM CALLING FROM WINDOWS TO INFORM YOU YOUR DEVICE IS INFECTED. PLEASE REDDEM MY MALWARE!" scams blew up. Whoever wrote this is more than two decades behind.

 

[beautiful person]

Whatever "South Asia" has that somewhat resembles a society needs to start controlling its men before I consider giving anything resembling a fuck.

And if East Asians like Korean and Japanese, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), want to allow pajeets to latch onto them, then they can go ahead and be collateral damage.

 

[Endless Torment]

Fuck you reporter no one calls Indians South Asians. Everyone breaks Asia into Indians, East Asians, and South East Asians.
Most Americans don't even count Indian as Asia and view them as their own thing.
Bring back the term sub continent and sub continental.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Not even the people I know that don’t consider themselves racist seem to like Indians. Decades of scam phone calls, smelling, and being rude has done them zero favors. It reminds me of how people use to talk about gypsies.

Gypsies actually come from India. They're basically the Indians India kicked out.

 

[alphabetnigger]

88,000 saar and street shitting jokes sounds kinda low for a whole year.

Edit: I'm a tard who can't read, it's monthly. Still seems low

 

[round robin]

Just like with troons, I never really had much of an issue with Indians when they were just something I understood to exist but rarely dealt with. Once I was made to interact with them I discovered they were almost unerringly unpleasant people and now I want them all to die or at least live very far away from me.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Indians need to stop comparing themselves to based South East Asians that work hard

 

[Potion_Time]

If only a certain public facing Indian didn't say that Americans should be replaced by indians in extremely public ways.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Indians are not Asians

My preferred term for Indians (and those from its neighboring shitholes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc.) is "Subcontinental Slime".

 

[Snack Cracker]

I barely think of pajeet as a slur, but it’s increased in some areas for good reason.
No one needs more tech pajeets or pajeets running for public office, they have this odd combination of outward subservience to white people while simultaneously acting like they’re superior.