NEW DELHI: Congress’ Udit Raj on Monday publicly recommended White Space industry counselor Peter Navarro’s arguable ‘Brahmins profiteering’ remarks. “I utterly consider @RealPNavarro…,” he posted on X amid outrage sparked by way of the remarks of Trump’s aide, including, “If truth be told, personal Indian oil refiners are from higher castes, and it’ll take many years, in all probability centuries, for so-called decrease castes to turn into oil refiners.““It’s true that company properties owned by way of higher castes are purchasing affordable oil from Russia and promoting it to different nations after refining. Indians aren’t profiting from this in any respect,” he mentioned, in remarks which looked to be in song together with his birthday party’s assault on “elites”, “privileges” and “advantage”: all of that have been observed as shorthand for the birthday party’s present precedence to boost a coalition of non-upper castes.Udit Raj’s colleague from Tamil Nadu, MP Karti Chidambaram, mentioned “Boston Brahmins is a time period used to explain the elite of society in not unusual parlance”.Satirically, Brahmins in US have, for a while, been on the receiving finish of Navarro’s staunch ideological fighters in US, the liberal hawks typically aligned with the Democrats. A couple of years in the past, Civil Rights Division of Democrat-controlled California sued Cisco Programs on the example of a PIO worker who alleged that he used to be denied a management place by way of his higher caste colleagues; mainly Sundar Iyer, an alumnus of Bombay IIT.Iyer who denied the rate and received an important victory in opposition to Civil Rights Division, lamented about being accused of casteism. “Civil Rights Division assigned Brahmin caste to me,” Iyer had famously remarked whilst rebutting the fees in opposition to him.Equality Labs, extensively observed as a bunch of activists who’re not going to consider Navarro and Trump’s MAGA motion has taken upon itself to report alleged instances of caste-based discrimination in US: one thing which the Hindu teams have flayed as an try to divide Indians and, in particular, Hindus.The affect of “liberals” has looked to be at the wane since Trump’s good fortune ultimate Nov, with many Democrats and centrists blaming the good fortune of MAGA on “woke activism”. “It’s a sarcasm that their vocabulary turns out to have seeped into MAGA camp as smartly,” remarked an observer right here.