MAGA pundit criticizes GOP racism – then gets dogpiled after posting racist video
Conspiracy theorist and MAGA pundit Dinesh D’Souza spent much of November decrying racism within the Republican Party, particularly against Indian Americans, but was subsequently hammered Thursday night as a “racist hypocrite” after sharing a blatantly racist video targeting Somalians.
D’Souza shared a video generated with generative artificial intelligence Thursday that depicted a racist caricature of a Somalian man shouting “give me that tax money,” a reference to the ongoing alleged fraud scheme in Minnesota, which conservative figures have blamed on the state’s Somali population after President Donald Trump called Somali Americans “garbage.”
D’Souza, however, an Indian American himself, spent the better half of last month decrying conservative racism against Indians, a fact that didn’t go unnoticed among critics online.
“This guy was crying about anti-Indian racism in the Republican Party last week,” wrote leftist streamer and political advocate Hasan Piker to his more than 1.6 million followers on X.
“The classic, cries about racism while posting racism,” wrote another X user, “Ussp God,” who frequently posts political commentary.
In November, D’Souza made several online posts decrying anti-Indian racism within the GOP, proclaiming in a Nov. 2 online post that if left unchecked, anti-Indian racism may culminate with the “mass deportations of Blacks, Latinos and other minorities from the GOP.” He also championed President Donald Trump on Nov. 7 for giving “a nice middle finger to all the bigots” in the Republican Party.
Yet, when it came to Somalians, D’Souza’s concern over racism appears to have vanished, according to journalist Yashar Ali, a contributor to NBC News and New York Magazine.
“Dinesh D’Souza has long been one of the most horrible people in the conservative movement, but the greatest issue I have is that he sits there and bemoans bigotry against Indians and acts shocked by where it came from,” Ali wrote Thursday night in a social media post on X.
“And then he comes on a week later and posts a video that contains physiognomic racism. You can’t have physiognomic racism for one group and then hope it doesn’t get projected onto another… You are an absolute disgrace, Dinesh.”
D’Souza was forced to apologize following the release of his debunked 2022 conspiracy film “2,000 Mules,” which made false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. He was also convicted of campaign finance violations in 2014 and was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months in a halfway house.