They're not!
That's why she went by Nikki Haley.
Welcome to the conversation.
Her choosing to go by Nikki because of your racism proves the thesis of this thread.
If America is not a racist country, then why does Nimrata Randhawa go by Nikki Haley?
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They're not!
That's why she went by Nikki Haley.
Welcome to the conversation.
Her choosing to go by Nikki because of your racism proves the thesis of this thread.
Then why did she start going by Nikki "at a young age".
She wasn't always going by Nikki. Something changed at some point that prompted her to go by Nikki instead of Nimrata. What do you think that something was?
I don't know. But she clearly won the governor's office with the public fully aware she was of Indian heritage. And she won with Indian heritage and with very unpopular policies (according to LV426).
Any racism did not keep her from becoming the first female governor in SC and the nation's youngest governor as an Indian in a very conservative Republican Southern state. And those voting against her were 41% of the Democrats. Race, gender, and age did not prevent her from winning office in a racist America.
Drummie123
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You are a silly fool if you believe that isn't the way it is everywhere and all the time and always has been since the beginning of time.
So people associated her unpopular policies with Nimrata and didn't know Nikki favored those same polices and voted for her?
I thought she had been using Nikki and then Haley for several years. How did those unpopular policies get associated with Nimrata?
Convoluted logic.
You sure about that? You said yourself most people don't even know those who represent them.
How did she win "with Indian heritage" if according to you, most people don't even know who they are voting for?
Right, because she used a whitewashed version of her name. And according to you, most people don't even know who their elected officials are. So they voted based on the name.
People didn't even know her first name was Nimrata.
The name as it appeared on the SC ballot was simply "Nikki R Haley":
And yes, racists probably would have associated her name with unfavorable policies because they're racist.
Now you're exercising sophistry because you can't reconcile your own racism.
No one even knew her name was Nimrata.
No, what you're doing is sophistry, and you're doing it because I got under your skin by calling out your putrid racism on this thread.
You need to yell at your fellow conservatives who have invested in hundreds of posts claiming her name change was totally benign and innocent.
The basic framework is this:
To me it is patently obvious that as a kid and young adult, she tried to subdue her ethnic heritage to accommodate the cultural expectations of southern rednecks.
It is your fellow conservatives you need to convince.
This is the 21st century. If an American wants to be a Sikh and keep their Indian name, they should be able to do so without the pressure of any latent expectation to conform to the standards of white Christian nationalists.
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You are the only person who brought up Haley using Nikki rather than Nimrata and linking it to race. I think it is irrelevant trivia. We were just trying to speculate reasons she may have done so rather than using the name on her birth certificate and taking her husband's name.
You had already concluded it was racial and when some of our suggested reasons supported your conclusions you accused us of racism. In reality, you had already made that racist connection.
But the other posters are not so simplistic to think difficult foreign sounding names are necessarily racist since many of them are Caucasian names.
That is not what many of the posters were doing. They were trying to answer the question posed by LV426 (also very conservative on civil liberties issues). Since he had already attributed it to racism we were just trying to speculate on other possible reasons. We were only listing possibilities, not our beliefs since we have no clue why she did so.
They can and do.
A candidate using a nickname ("Beto") does not do so because he fears white Christian nationalists will not vote for him but to attract a larger pool of voters.
Of course it's linked to race, and you proved it on this thread.
Obviously because as a mediocre white man, you don't believe institutional racism exists.
We know why. You helped prove it when you said the reason was because of racism.
Because they were racist, Flash.
If you don't think saying the name "Nimrata" is hard for "English speakers" to pronounce or remember is racist, then you're in denial.
Every single reason you gave on this thread has to do with race.
How is "Nimrata" a "difficult foreign sounding name"? You haven't explained.
Prejudice, bigotry, mockery, and racism are good places to start.
Right, because America is a racist country.
Drummie123
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You are a dishonest foreigner and/or a nut if you think any kid goes through life and becomes a strong, self reliant adult without enduring problems and challenges and finding ways to survive and overcome them.
At every level there's a different devil.
The strongest tree survives the stiffest winds.
Tell us about the Utopian **** hole which is so wonderful that so many try to escape to live in America, where kids aren't teased when growing up.
Kids are tough on their classmates everywhere.
Right, but not all those kids face institutional and nationalist racism, which is something they cannot control.
You get that, right?
Drummie123
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This helps provide insight into why the US Marine Corps is so respected.
You want kids to be snowflakes.
So America is a racist country, then.
So why have you been screeching like a barnyard animal on this thread that it isn't?
No one should accept American racism because of what happens in other countries.
We can't control what happens in other countries, but we can control what happens here.
You seem either too lazy or too uninspired to control it here.
Maybe for you, because you're such a piece of shit.
Fuck the Marines.
Win a war and we can talk.
As it stands, the Marines are 0-for-the last 75 years.
You're so much of a fucking snowflake that you didn't even bother to show up to DC on 1/6, despite you riling all your "very fine people" up by spreading lies about the election.