Usha Vance was requested about JD calling for rehiring of DOGE staffer who posted ‘normalize Indian hate.’ Here’s how she responded | EUROtoday

Two months in the past, Vice President JD Vance urged Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk to “bring back” Marko Elez, a staffer who as soon as posted “normalize Indian hate” on social media.

“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life…So I say bring him back,” Vance wrote on February 7.

Soon afterward, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, who’s Indian, shot again on the vice chairman.

“Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying ‘Normalize Indian hate’ before this rehire? Khanna wrote on X soon after the vice president’s initial post. “Just asking for the sake of both of our kids.”

Now, Second Lady Usha Vance — who’s Indian-American — has responded to the incident.

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In an interview with Usha Vance, The Free Press requested for her views on the row between her husband and Khanna. While the Second Lady mentioned she hadn’t seen “the entirety” of the trade, she nonetheless condemned the put up.

“Do I think it’s great when people talk about ‘normalizing Indian hate’ or something like that? Absolutely not. I think it’s terrible,” she mentioned.

She went on to notice that racist rhetoric is nothing new, however the way in which that it’s unfold on social media is: “I think it’s our relationship to this information…that is potentially new.”

“Very, very intelligent people say things that are sometimes very, very ill-founded because we are now in this world in which all conversations happen based on limited information very quickly, without the kind of reflection that might have been possible before,” she added.

Usha Vance, the primary nonwhite Second Lady, additionally shared what life has been like as an Indian-American lady amongst MAGAworld’s litany of highly effective white ladies, whom the interviewer described as blonde with “Botox and facelifts” sporting “low-cut blouses and nine-inch heels.”

“I’m laughing because it would be really hard for me to be blonde,” Usha Vance informed The Free Pressnoting, “that color would look totally absurd.”

“For what it’s worth, my reception into this world—and I’m not from a particularly wealthy background, not from a very fashion-oriented background personally or professionally—has been really positive,” she added. “People don’t seem to care all that much what I look like.”

The Second Lady additionally addressed a latest go to to the Kennedy Center, the place she and JD have been booed as they entered for a live performance.

“I don’t think we anticipated that anyone would really notice,” she mentioned.

“It was about 20 or 30 seconds of some people booing and delaying the start of the concert, right as the conductor is about to come out, and there were a few other people clapping. JD waved at them, and then we enjoyed the show that we had come for,” she added.

Usha Vance added that her position in her husband’s life has been to supply assist in a job she describes as “lonely.”

“I don’t know that he’s asking me for advice so much as, it can be a very lonely, lonely world not to share with someone,” she mentioned.

“It’s a very strange life that we lead, where there are lots of people who have just imagined all sorts of narratives about us and what we think and what we do and why we do it and how much planning goes into it and all these sorts of things,” she added.