An X post of a man went viral as he drew massive flak for the anti-India sentiment that he expressed in his observation about visa. Sean Carpenter, the man, said he was sitting in the DC airport and heard three gate agents speaking in Hindi.“Tell me why we need Indians to work the gates at airports again?” he asked, calling H-1B a complete fraud. As he got called out for his India hate, he called his critics parasites and wrote: “Why not just make India great again? Or do you need the British back to do that?”His India-hatred escalated with every attack that called him out as racist. “It’s not racist to expect an airport gat agent to be able to speak English clearly, not to want jobs to go to Americans first,” he wrote. The post came at a time when sentiments against H-1B are high among the tech workers as US companies are cutting thousands of jobs, while the immigration department revealed that they have selected 120,141 H-1 B applications. Concerns have been raised that instead of ‘Making America Great Again’, the Trump administration continued with the dependence on foreign workers.The reply section of the viral anti-India post became a battleground.“Indians are the reason your flights run on time, your tech works, and your hospitals aren’t collapsing. While you sit there complaining about people speaking Hindi, they’re doing real work, taking care of their families, and still respecting their culture. Maybe try working half as hard before calling H1B a fraud. Without Indians, a lot in your country would stop working — including that airport you’re sitting in,” one wrote. Calling this comment xenophobic, one user asked Sean Carpenter if he understood the difference between Hindi, Urdu or Pashtu.“Do you know the difference? I speak Hindi, but not the other languages. Are you a language expert? Or just a garden variety racist? It’s one thing to make xenophobic comments publicly. It’s quite another thing to expose one’s ignorance so monumentally,” the person wrote.Some social media users corrected him that airport gate agents could not be on H-1B visa program and H-1B is only for high-skilled immigrants “Dude learn what H1B is. Airport workers and janitors are not on H1B. Did you even go to school?” one wrote.
