Here’s one blogger’s reaction to desi American star Indra Nooyi criticizing Dubya’s foreign policy:

America’s Parasites: Parasites feed on their hosts while providing no discernible good in most cases. I can’t think of any other name for folks who enjoy freedom and self-acualization in the United States then turn their back on us — befuddingly, after significant but remunerative sacrifice and challenge that they were FREE not to take.

Translation: there’s ‘them’ and then there’s ‘us.’ Immigrants are ‘them,’ no matter how long they’ve been in the U.S. (nearly 30 years), no matter how educated (Yale), no matter whether they’re U.S. citizens (yes). Never mind that we need them to plug our skilled labor shortage: we’re doing them a favor by letting them in.

This East Indian-American woman is at the top of her game professionally in a country that celebrates women achievers much UNLIKE her country of origin. BUT she is not satisfied! She must disparage the United States for not doing enough to coddle the corrupt, morally and financially bankrupt ‘international community’. Priceless!!!

Archaic usage of ‘East Indian,’ check. Ignorance of India’s female achievers, check. Multiple exclamation points, check. Assumption that she’s a parasitic economic refugee, check. (Nooyi graduated from IIM-Calcutta and worked at Johnson & Johnson India before ascending to CFO of Pepsi.)

Ignoring the substance of her argument to unleash a personal attack on her nationality and gender, check. Translation: uppity immigrant bitch needs to go back to where she came from.

Would he make the same points if Nooyi were an Englishman in New York? Would he make the same points of fellow conservative Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Elsewhere he writes:

Curse of the Black Voter: “… black voters reportedly faced long lines and voting machines that failed to work…” Why do Democrats like Black voters then? It’s obvious that it’s a constituency that can not get it’s act together!

And yet he’s black. Doesn’t sound like he’s too happy about it.

Kevin Leo sounds like the Jersey Guys. I can only assume his blog, whose name begins with ‘Reason,’ is ironically named. Sadly, he’s hardly the only American so xenophobically feeble-minded that the first thing he seizes upon in a debate is the way someone looks. And it’s highly ironic for someone who’s black in America.

What he’s really saying is this: immigrants are un-American forever. Don’t you dare dissent unless you’re native-born.

People with that view end up bug juice on the windshield of history.

Update: Leo typifies the conservative wingnut tactic of impugning the patriotism of dissenters and their right to dissent instead of arguing the actual issue. And he evokes the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Pat Buchanan. He’s like the guys screeching by in trucks during the first Iraq war yelling at us ‘Arabs’ to ‘go back to Iraq.’ The wingnuts are out in force, and their reaction resembles nothing more than the tempest in a toilet raised over claims that a Koran was mistreated at Guantánamo Bay:

These “Hate America First (and last and always)” types really anger me… You don’t respect this country, you ingrate? Then LEAVE—go back home!

Ms. Nooyi should go back to the gutter that is India before she starts lamenting the role of the US in the world… Why do those who have built their fortunes, used American capitalism for all it’s beauty, and basked in the freedom’s provided by better people than they… continue to abuse those freedoms by denigrating the very thing that made them what they are…

‘hating America’

‘you just can’t puke out some U.S.-bashing diatribe with impunity’

‘America-insulting remarks… I am inclined to boycott Pepsi products.’

Ms. Nooyi ? Go fuck yourself - with a Coke bottle… Coming from India, she has risen to a high level in corporate America, which she then uses to insult us with her kindergarten analogies… she’s most likely one of those affirmative action mistakes so many corporations are forced into these days… I am fed the fuck up with these ungrateful shitheads that can’t give their adopted country the respect it’s owed…

Here’s a transcript of the speech (via Arma Virumque), excerpts below:

This analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents leaves the long, middle finger for North America, and, in particular, The United States. As the longest of the fingers, it really stands out. The middle finger anchors every function that the hand performs and is the key to all of the fingers working together efficiently and effectively. This is a really good thing, and has given the U.S. a leg-up in global business since the end of World War I.

However, if used inappropriately -just like the U.S. itself — the middle finger can convey a negative message and get us in trouble. You know what I’m talking about. In fact, I suspect you’re hoping that I’ll demonstrate what I mean. And trust me, I’m not looking for volunteers to model.

Discretion being the better part of valor … I think I’ll pass.

What is most crucial to my analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents, is that each of us in the U.S. - the long middle finger - must be careful that when we extend our arm in either a business or political sense, we take pains to assure we are giving a hand … not the finger. Sometimes this is very difficult. Because the U.S. - the middle finger - sticks out so much, we can send the wrong message unintentionally.

Unfortunately, I think this is how the rest of the world looks at the U.S. right now. Not as part of the hand - giving strength and purpose to the rest of the fingers - but, instead, scratching our nose and sending a far different signal.

I’d challenge each of you to think about how critically important it is for every finger on your hand to rise and bend together. You cannot simply “allow” the other four fingers to rise only when you want them to. If you’ve ever even tried to do that, you know how clumsy and uncoordinated it is.

My point here is that it’s not enough just to understand that the other fingers co-exist. We’ve got to consciously and actively ensure that every one of them stands tall together, or that they bend together when needed.

Today, as each of you ends one chapter in your young lives and begins another, I want you to consider how you will conduct your business careers so that the other continents see you extending a hand … not the finger…

Graduates, it pains me greatly that this view of America persists. Although I’m a daughter of India, I’m an American businesswoman. My family and I are citizens of this great country.

This land we call home is a most-loving, and ever-giving nation - a “promised land” that we love dearly in return. And it represents a true force that - if used for good — can steady the hand - along with global economies and cultures…

Remember that the middle finger - The United States - always stands out. If you’re smart, if you exhibit emotional intelligence as well as academic intelligence - if you ascribe positive intent to all your actions on the international business stage - this can be a great advantage. But, if you aren’t careful -if you stomp around in a tone-deaf fog like the ignoramus in Beijing — it will also get you in trouble. And when it does, you will have only yourself to blame.

It’s a cheeky analogy. Speaking of culturally tone-deaf — oh, the irony!

Vinod’s previous post here.