Showing as a visitor on Sunday’s The Mehdi Hasan Present on MSNBC, liberal columnist Ali Wahajat — who writes for each MSNBC.com and The Every day Beast — demonstrated that MSNBC was nonetheless the place for crude, racially incendiary vitriol as he accused former U.N. ambassador and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley of being a “Manchurian candidate” for “white supremacists.” He additionally charged that she “makes use of her brown pores and skin as a weapon” in opposition to minorities to “launder white supremacist speaking factors.”

The liberal trash talker made his feedback because the present’s host, Mehdi Hasan, convened a panel of liberal Indian American friends to gripe about Haley, as a result of she was an Indian American who has conservative views on immigration.

After Hasan — whose household was initially from India — started the phase by recalling that Haley invoked her personal immigrant ancestry however then condemned unlawful immigration. The MSNBC host lamented: “What’s it with the conservative kids of Indian immigrants and their antipathy in direction of immigration?”

After Hasan and one other visitor — Asha Rangappa of the Yale Jackson College of World Affairs — argued that Haley’s dad and mom benefited from “woke” activists pushing immigration reform within the Sixties, the MSNBC host turned to Ali and requested for his response to the GOP candidate asserting her marketing campaign for President: “Will you be cheering on fellow brown American — fellow youngster of South Asian immigrants Nikki Haley and what she stands for?”

Ali instantly tore into her:

To cite Zora Neale Hurston, “Not all skinfolk are kinfolk.” Nikki Haley as an alternative is the Dinesh D’Souza of Candace Owens. She’s the alpha Karen of brown pores and skin. And for white supremacists and racists, she’s the proper Manchurian candidate. And as an alternative of applauding her, I’m simply disgusted by folks like Nikki Haley who know higher — whose dad and mom have been the beneficiaries — as Asha stated — of the 1965 immigration and nationality act — which handed because of these authentic BLM protesters and the Civil Rights Act.

Including: “And so I see her and I really feel unhappy, Mehdi, as a result of she makes use of her brown pores and skin as a weapon in opposition to poor black of us and poor brown of us. And she or he makes use of her brown pores and skin to launder white supremacist speaking factors…”

In his most up-to-date column on MSNBC.com, Ali declared that the GOP candidate was “making an attempt to pave a lily-white path to the White Home.”

Earlier within the present, Hasan devoted one other phase to attacking Haley over the problem as he argued that she was anti-immigration and never simply against unlawful immigration. In doing so, he misleadingly hinted on the debunked declare that unlawful immigrants who declare to be asylum seekers weren’t really unlawful immigrants. He additionally didn’t inform viewers that the overwhelming majority of asylum seekers lose their instances however will more than likely stay within the nation illegally approach.

This newest instance of MSNBC’s incendiary speech was sponsored partly by Mercedes-Benz and Wayfair. Their contact data is linked.

Transcripts comply with:

MSNBC’s The Mehdi Hasan Present
February 19, 2023
8:39 p.m. Japanese

MEHDI HASAN: In her memoir, (Nikki) Haley even talks about her Indian mom really supporting Trump for President in 2016 very early on — sure, the identical Trump who needed to construct a wall and made racist remarks about brown folks. That is the drawbridge proper there.

In some ways, Nikki Haley herself is following within the footsteps of Bobby Jindal — one other son of Indian immigrants, one other ex-Republican governor who had fantasies about being the GOP presidential nominee. Jindal –who modified his title to “Bobby” from “Piyush” — condemned immigration with out assimilation as invasion, and have become, within the phrases of the Washington Put up, “the brand new champion” of the robust on immigrants crowd. 

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Now, conservative pundits, apologists, will say, “There’s nothing unsuitable with right-wing immigrants or the right-wing kids of immigrants desirous to get robust on unlawful immigration. Their dad and mom got here legally.” That is a load of BS.

Primary, the concept that that is all about unlawful immigration is simply false. There are millions of folks making an attempt however unable to assert asylum at our southern border, and claiming asylum is a authorized proper beneath each U.S. and worldwide legislation.

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8:45 p.m. Japanese

HASAN: Nikki Haley kicked off her 2024 GOP presidential marketing campaign by declaring that she was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, after which nearly instantly after — as I discussed earlier than the break — she was denouncing illegals and calling for extra Border Patrol workplaces. What’s it with the conservative kids of Indian immigrants and their antipathy in direction of immigration?

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ASHA RANGAPPA, YALE JACKSON SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS: Nikki Haley’s household got here right here in 1966 — mine got here in 1970. We’re all beneficiaries of people that fought for her to make that occur. And for her to not acknowledge that —

HASAN: Of woke activists, Asha. She’s a beneficiary of woke activism. She’s a beneficiary of woke activism.

RANGAPPA: Of woke activists, precisely.

HASAN: And it is fascinating you talked about — you talked about that the man within the Twenties who declared himself white — I imply, there’s reporting from a neighborhood paper that Nikki Haley as soon as declared herself white on a voter registration kind. Waj, your ideas on this? I imply, you wrote a guide about rising up brown in America. Will you be cheering on fellow brown American — fellow youngster of South Asian immigrants Nikki Haley and what she stands for?

WAJAHAT ALI, MSNBC.COM COLUMNIST: To cite Zora Neale Hurston, “Not all skinfolk are kinfolk.” Nikki Haley as an alternative is the Dinesh D’Souza of Candace Owens. She’s the alpha Karen of brown pores and skin. And for white supremacists and racists, she’s the proper Manchurian candidate. And as an alternative of applauding her, I’m simply disgusted by folks like Nikki Haley who know higher — whose dad and mom have been the beneficiaries — as Asha stated — of the 1965 immigration and nationality act — which handed because of these authentic BLM protesters and the Civil Rights Act.

Her father got here right here as a result of he was a professor — he taught at a traditionally black faculty in South Carolina. That is how she turned the proud American that she is. And but, what does she do like all these mannequin minorities? Which, by the way in which, is a technique of white supremacy to make use of Asians specifically as a cudgel in opposition to black of us. As a substitute of pulling us up from the bootstraps and pulling others from the bootstrap, we’re taught to take your boot and put it on the neck of poor browns, immigrants, refugees, and black of us. And that is what she did in her advert.

And so I see her and I really feel unhappy, Mehdi, as a result of she makes use of her brown pores and skin as a weapon in opposition to poor black of us and poor brown of us. And she or he makes use of her brown pores and skin to launder white supremacist speaking factors…

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HASAN: She’s by no means, Asha, ever addressed or apologized for her beforehand pro-Accomplice flag stance. She, after all, later went on to work for Donald Trump. Simply since you’re brown or a baby of immigrants, doesn’t suggest you are not capable of coddle and allow white supremacy. Your pores and skin coloration — your ethnic background is not a get-out-of-jail free card on this problem, is it?