Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy bullied offline by his own base... slurs and calls to deport him [View all]

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced in a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed that he had quit Instagram and X after facing attacks for being Indian.

Ramaswamy previously wrote in a Dec. 17 New York Times op-ed that his “social media feeds [were] littered with hundreds of slurs … about ‘pajeets’ and ‘street shitters’ and calls to deport [him] ‘back to India,'” despite being born in the United States and never living elsewhere. He wrote in the WSJ piece that what he saw on social media did not reflect his real-world experiences.