Red Scare - H1bppy New Year *TEASER*

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

The ladies take on H-1B discourse and bring in the new year. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 But yeah, the really vulgar racism is, you know, that's just part of the ecosystem. Yeah, it's kind of funny. But then yeah, it gives people like, you know, the tech versus MAGA is that MAGA is racist and tech is. They don't have any material concerns outside of their racism. That's what it's all about. And that's like clearly not true.
Starting point is 00:00:33 And if there is racism, yeah, it's inspired by feelings of like rage at their own dispossession in their own country. And like I said, I think that- And we're holding space for that. Yeah. I think like what bothers me the most is like how entitled and ungrateful a lot of the people at the forefront of the debate are.
Starting point is 00:01:05 If you weren't such a spurg and a nerd and you understood, if you were emotionally intelligent, if you had some EQ, you would understand that at least, maybe you don't have any humility, but at least you could feign some just to make the process go more smoothly. You could practice some Protestant taste. And yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Yeah, and like the subtext with that is not like even like we're smarter or more qualified than you. It's like we're better than you at playing the game. Which like I also don't wanna live in a gamified version of a country. And like, yeah, maybe you can be like charitable and say that they're overcompensating with Bluster
Starting point is 00:01:57 because they feel like insecure and out of place. But I think a lot of them just don't get it. Well, I think that there's, yeah, they don't get it. There's just like a rot at the core of tech. It's like they'll never get it because they have these, they're different from us, not Indians, but tech people. Like, yeah, they just, they have different priorities.
Starting point is 00:02:25 Yeah, like Quentin Chris had that great point. Like, yeah, they just, they have different priorities. Yeah, like Quentin Crisp had that great point. Where, yeah, where he was like, oh, there's a big difference between manners and etiquette. Manners make people feel included and etiquette makes people feel excluded. These people don't even have etiquette. I know.

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