The Brahmin Question, Indian Integration, and H-1Bs

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I sit down with longtime buddy

Rajeev Ram

to revisit the dreaded Brahmin Question in light of some questionable appointments by the incoming administration.

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Topics include:

• Trump hiring Sriram Krishnan—an H-1B maxxer—portends poorly for the administration’s ability to deliver an America First agenda

• High levels of Indian immigration have created a serious ethnic tension in the tech world nobody powerful is taking seriously

• The locus of power in America is shifting from East Coast Wall Street institutions to West Coast Silicon Valley institutions, which coincides with a shift in ethnic power blocs from Jews to Indians

• The Jewish Question is old hat now; the Brahmin Question is the future

• Will second and third generation Indian Americans get unfairly lumped in with rising resentment toward H-1Bs, and will the resulting negative polarization create a hostile counter-elite?

• For a number of reasons earlier waves of Indian immigration were more pluralist and less ethnically particularist than current waves

• One reason Indians are closely affiliated with the Democrat Party is they are deeply invested in the public school system

• Why is it so important for Indians not to be dissidents?

• Lots of Indians place an extreme emphasis on institutional education

• What is the prevalence of miscegenation in second and third generation Indians?

• Not assimilating has been a buffer against forces of social decay like divorce

• Political centralization ensures everyone will make a play for power

• The giant Hindu temple in Texas and giant Mormon Jesus statue built in response

• Would most second and third generation Indian Americans support an expansion of H-1Bs out a sense of racial loyalty?

• Why Rajeev has personally never felt defensive of H-1Bs

• Ethnic favoritism among H-1B tech leads

• Rajeev’s increasing cynicism about being able to collaborate with both sides

• The intransigent demand Rajeev has faced to propositionally state his beliefs

• It’s hard to understand pagan syncretism when you were raised in a totalizing monotheistic tradition

• Being friends with Hindus gives wypipo an authentic mental model for what worshiping Jupiter or Thor would have looked like

• Why White Nationalists are drawn to Vedic mythology

• Hinduism venerates the Dionysian feminine buried in Abrahamism

• Lots of Indian Muslims descend from dysgenic untouchable converts

• The Hindutva impulse to rewrite history to protect against Islam

• Walt resents the obliteration of European pagan traditions

• Rajeev defends Christianity

• Could Vivek be persuaded to take up against H-1Bs?

• Do we *actually* need H-1Bs to compete with China in AI?

• The impetus for Indians to migrate as H-1Bs will decrease as the Indian standard of living for tech workers continues approaching that of America

• H-1Bs aren’t grateful like White Americans expect immigrants to be because unlike our ancestors they come from an elite stratum of society

• These days Indians are outsourcing their own work to Vietnam

• Why Rajeev is fine working with an identitarian organization like Tortuga

• Will any second or third generation Indians want to repatriate at some point?

• Is there a gender divide in Indian American politics?

• Rajeev’s concept of America First

• Rajeev advises his follow Tamil Brahmins to get swole and start practicing combat sports so they feel less of a need to derive their self-worth from participation in high status institutions

• Walt advises his fellow white identitarians in tech not to develop a totalistic hostility to Indians because of H-1B ethnic nepotism but instead cultivate similar practices through organizations like Tortuga