This 'South Asian' blue-checked chick's beef with Nikki Haley is pretty damn racist

Sarah D | 12:56 PM on October 09, 2018

If you’ve never heard of blue-checked “Lawyer. Writer. Organizer.” Aditi Juneja, we regret to inform you that you’ve been missing out on thoughtful takes like this:

Nikki Haley epitomizes the idea that “skin folk are not kin folk” for me.

She does not represent WOC. She does not represent South Asians.
She does not represent me.

She embarrasses me as one of the few prominent South Asian women in politics.

— Aditi Juneja (@AditiJuneja3) October 9, 2018

Nikki Haley served as governor and then as U.N. Ambassador with honor and integrity. But she’s a Republican and a conservative, so none of that matters.

I said this in 2016. https://t.co/QpFkrS3UY7

— Aditi Juneja (@AditiJuneja3) October 9, 2018

I said it earlier this year in 2018. https://t.co/Mvto4rSleL

— Aditi Juneja (@AditiJuneja3) October 9, 2018

So she’s been a racist for a while, then.

People seem to think that if you care about representation, you care about it at the expense of everything else. That is not true.

If someone perpetuates patriarchy and white supremacy and is a WOC, they don’t help justice and equity. They don’t bring a perspective to the table

— Aditi Juneja (@AditiJuneja3) October 9, 2018

She’s entitled to her views, but the challenge with having so few people who look like you in the public eye is that people assume they represent everyone who looks like them.

— Aditi Juneja (@AditiJuneja3) October 9, 2018

“She’s entitled to her views.” Wow. How magnanimous of you, Aditi.