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Laura Loomer was called out to her face by an Indian reporter over her past tweets that promote "anti-Indianism, worse still Islamophobia, and even worse racism."
Loomer was in New Delhi for the India Today Conclave, an event aimed at promoting India, when she was confronted over her past anti-Indian remarks by Indian journalist Rajdeep Sardesai.
Sardesai’s comments came after moderators pressed Loomer over her past remarks about Islam. Despite the fact that roughly 15% of India’s population are Muslim, Loomer said she believes “Islam is a cancer on the world” and claimed she does not “believe that Islamophobia is real.” She also argued that Muslims should be barred from holding public office in the United States.
Earlier in the discussion, when asked about disparaging comments she had made about India, Loomer walked back her statements, saying, “I shouldn’t have said some of the things that I said … and I apologize if my remarks offended people.”
Sardesai brought up a number of her past tweets, including one in which she claimed the White House would smell "like curry" if former Vice President Kamala Harris—who is of Afro-Jamaican and Indian heritage—won the 2024 presidential election.
He said, in part:
"You then went on to claim that our country was 'built by white Europeans, not third world invaders from India.' I think you should do more than just express regret. From what I can see, you are brazenly racist and Islamophobic."
https://x.com/IndiaToday/status/2032736003602129218
HandFireWeapon
Why is Jigsaw holding a press conference?
Mortbise
Put a damn paper bag on her fugly mug, gross.
ChenChioMinawa
If Islamophobia isn’t real, then neither is anti-Semitism.
DerpMeister
Religion is a cancer on the world and people who can't keep their religion out of politics should be banned from holding any public office.
Oatmealman1
All religions are a cancer, but that doesn't mean the followers are, except xtianity and Catholics... Nutjobs them. I've met really kind Muslims many times, but it's not their religion, it's the person that is kind. Religions are not kind, they are methods of control and bastions of hate and ignorance.
Bundalicious
Why isn't every single member of the Krasnov administration treated in this manner?
slopwizard
A glimpse of actual journalism when we are used to billionaire owned media
Marsupialmessiah
Why was they there in the first place?
Imustntrunaway
I can't fathom why that horrendous creature would be at an event like this in the first place.
Snooj
Consider that India still abides by its caste system so the country is no stranger to her type of morals.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
According to mediabiasfactcheck, India Today has a center-right bias. A lot of conservative parties still treat Trumpism as a normal conservative ideology and its followers as fellow conservatives you can have a normal conversation with, instead of the deranged fascist cult they actually are. Also India has a far-right religious nationalist government with a hate boner for muslims, so many of her opinions wouldn't be super unpopular there.
So clearly someone thought she'd make a good addition.
Aimlockbelch
Didn’t she claim that trump told her she gave him the best head of his entire life? Just ewww
stronomer
Why is she even a thing? Why is she sitting on a podium? There are literally billions of people more interesting and more qualified.
feelymcfeel
Laura Loomer's face has crossed firmly into the uncanny valley
chatawillybilly
Cows are sacred and worshipped in India. Should have hurled buckets of cow shit on Loomer then tell her she's been blessed.
idiotsonfire
Laura Loomer is a Nazi and needs to hang.
MotoCanuck
God damn guy sounds Canadian with all those unnecessary apologies.
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
Everyone will have drones, and they will/are effective. Fuck your 10 billion aircraft carrier
iovebeans
Good
doctorId
It's kind of telling that some of the worst imperialists in history can denigrate your entire race and you still have to couch your pushback against it in apologies.
Cosmicfisherman
Truth and Bravo Good Person.
possiblyafakeaccount
Good on him for calling her out
InablueMule
WBAP out of Dallas the other morning,Host was talking about how Chinese copy everything and have poor quality. I lose IQ if i listen to that station so i ration it,. WCPT in Jeff park comes on near sunrise then Stephanie Miller. Yeah Mama! WCPT is a clear channel so RW at night and Progessive daytime.
pintgudge1975
Regime change in the United States now!
hfctom
Best we can do is a mid-term where the opposing party might win enough seats to have an impeachment, again, which will get nullified, again, because they "Just won't have the votes" and so the rest of the world should probably quarantine us now.
pintgudge1975
If that is really the best that YOU can do, then keep on being disappointed. Or, maybe you like it that way.
Feralkyn
He's an Ivan, don't bother responding. Just a Russian trollfarm agent or some shit. Literally the comment above is the only thing he spam-posts on EVERYTHING.
eddbrowne
Amendment 25: removal on initiative of vice president with a majority of the president's cabinet.
PutItInNeutral
That condescending smirk on her face while she is getting read the riot act for being a complete shit.
BilltheCatisBack
Can she really control any look on her frozen face.
SmergBlaerghl
That's probably, at least partly, because of all the plastic surgery.
Snooj
I think she's just trying to move her face in some fashion and that's the only leeway it has.
InfocalypseRising
These people LOVE this kind of polite condemnation because they know it ultimately doesn't matter. Saying "Excuse me good sir but I feel your comments are unwarranted" has never stopped a fascist.
doctorId
She'd have looked more shocked but she's really only capable of the one facial expression at this point
BikeTrailsAndWaggingTails
this is just some of them.
eddbrowne
Loomer "banned from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, payment processors, vehicles for hire, and food delivery apps". But Donald loves her.
Snooj
Is she disparaging Trump in the lower right?
BikeTrailsAndWaggingTails
Likely not because she's a loyal Trump supporter. She's most likely boasting that Americans are better.
ElroydIsGone
"Sorry, if my words offended you" is the most dishonest, responsibility rejecting, cowardly and narcissistic sham of an excuse. No mention, that HER actions or words were bad, or why and how they were bad, only loading all responsibility to the listener: "If YOU were offended"
Saxytimes
It's some DARVO bullshit
ElroydIsGone
Yeah, that's the DNA of MAGA.
thisisjunk
Remember kids: "Third World" doesn't mean "poor". It just means they weren't allied to the US or USSR in the Cold War. Switzerland is a Third World country.
GhostofCain
Also remember, semantic shifts do occur.
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bittenicht39
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World#Relationships_with_the_other_worlds The Cold War definition was exactly that. The fact that you don‘t know this does not give you the right to shit on other users and falsely accuse them of making stuff up. Learn something and stop harassing others.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
It didn't mean that during the Cold War. These days however, it is used as a general measure of development.
SirButcher
This was the original meaning, but meanings change - today, far more people mean "rich, developing, poor" instead of the Cold War era categorisation.
miked854
And India was a First World country.
Snooj
And (this is merely a fact, not meant to disparage India) over 1 in 10 people in India go to the bathroom outside for lack of proper facilities. So the line between first and third world countries is very wavy.
Kbantar
It wasn't independent then.
miked854
I thought they were a country still pledging sovereignty to the crown at that point, but OK.
mksu
I don't understand why smelling like curry is a bad thing anyway. Indian food always smells fantastic, even when it's stuff I don't actually want to eat.
Babomonkey
And certainly better than smelling like loaded diaper.
forlornfoghorn
I live next to a mosque and when they have some festive function which involves an eating section, I throw all windows open, to get all those lovely smells in.
JT1984
Ngl, i canr stand the smell of curry. Its repulsive to me. To each their own, but the thing about curry is the smell hangs around forever.
IWasGoingToMakeEspresso
Curry doesn’t bother me as much as cumin. I had a coworker who ate so much cumin that I could smell him from across a room.
pareidoliaperson
I bet non of them know how curry smells. It doesn´t even have a strong smell at all. It's just a racist thing streotype something.
DesperateDunn365
It definitely has a strong smell. It's a lovely smell but give the amount of onions and spices in most curry types the smell will typically be strong.
nalmeth
Well that's just not true. It very much has a strong smell.