SHIWANI SHRIVASTAVA and AMY BHATT
Still, with lines like this, you can’t blame angry readers for pegging Stein as racist:
“‘dot heads’ was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose.”
Not so funny if you know that the Dot Busters were a New Jersey-based hate group responsible for attacks on Indians in the 1980s. And it’s even less funny when you consider that hate crimes against Indians continue to happen in the state today.
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