You really can’t make this stuff up.
In this clip, a South Asian man openly admits he’s voting for Nithya Raman because she’s Indian. When the person filming points out that some people might vote for her opponent, Pratt, because he’s white, the man immediately says it’s “unfortunate” that people vote based on identity politics instead of credentials.
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The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
He’s perfectly fine admitting he’s voting for someone based purely on race and ethnicity — but the second the same standard is applied to a white candidate, suddenly it’s a problem. It’s the classic double standard we see all the time with identity politics: it’s celebrated when it benefits one group, and condemned when it benefits another.
This is exactly why identity politics is so toxic. It reduces people to their race, gender, or background instead of judging them on their ideas, experience, and character. The man in the video accidentally makes the perfect case against the very thing he’s doing.
Voters should pick candidates based on who will actually deliver results — not because they share the same skin color or heritage. That’s the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
The clip is going viral because it’s such a perfect, unfiltered example of how broken this mindset has become. People are tired of being told that identity is everything — except when it’s the “wrong” identity.
Merit over melanin. Always.
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