‘Pajeet, Dirty’: Racist Videos, Temple Attacks, Slurs: America’s Shocking Anti-India Hate Wave

A 19-year-old with white supremacist ideas, a rifle, hundreds of rounds and an eight-page manifesto allegedly planned a mass shooting at a Hindu temple near Chicago. The rifle jammed, a co-worker who saw a video of the failed attack alerted police, and a massacre may have been prevented. But this attack did not emerge from nowhere.

Just two weeks earlier, the Center for the Study of Organized Hate warned that anti-South Asian hate was exploding online: more than half a million hateful posts on X, 138 million views, and slurs and invader myths spreading fast. Doxxing, fabricated ‘takeover’…