A 2024 photo has gone viral, showing US vice-president JD Vance celebrating Thanksgiving with his Hindu wife Usha’s Indian-origin family.
Right-wing commentator Nick Fuentes mocked the Thanksgiving photo in a manner that many netizens deemed 'racist' on this year's Thanksgiving.
In the video, Fuentes targets a family photo of Vance, his wife Usha, and their children taken during an extended family gathering. Vance is pictured wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans while holding his son on his shoulder. Usha Vance is dressed in a yellowish-brown outfit, holding their daughter. Other family members appear to be enjoying the celebration.
Fuentes begins by pointing at the image. “It looked like this. I saw this image on Thanksgiving,” he says. He continues to mock the composition of the photo. “See, if you can spot the differences. There are two white people present at this Thanksgiving dinner, and there are 24 Indian or East Asian people with brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes, dressed in indigenous garb. Those are the differences.”
With a historical context, Fuentus joked that the festival is celebrated with indigenous American Indians and not modern-day Indians from India: “I'm pretty sure that the first Thanksgiving was actually not between Europeans and real Indians from India. I think it was with indigenous Americans.”
Fuentes also made a sly joke about a red-coloured drink on the table. “Could you imagine they have this pitcher. It’s like those drinks they make on the street in India, where they are grabbing fistfuls of ice and rubbing it in their armpits and throwing it in there and mixing up the flies.”
He used the photo as a critique of the VP in a MAGA-style manner, suggesting how Vance, a white nationalist and the second biggest GOP leader, could be seen celebrating Thanksgiving in that way: “If anyone promotes Vance, just send them this image, because this is all you need to know, this is all you need to know.”
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