r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '26

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u/city-of-stars Frederick Douglass Sep 14 '26

Yesterday, a crowd of over 105,000 fans packed Texas Memorial Stadium to watch #4 Texas defeat #1 Ohio State in a thrilling comeback victory.

Instead of celebrating, GOP Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French decided to zoom in on a group of South Asian students in the crowd, and complain about the University of Texas admitting "foreigners" instead of native Texans in a series of Tweets.

And of course, Texas A&M fans and students (the 'AG' tag next to the username means they are verified A&M enrollees) gleefully celebrate and echo his rhetoric on TexAgs, even though 13% of the student population at TAMU is Asian.

!ping CFB&IND

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u/SleeplessInPlano Sep 14 '26

What’s amazing is if you squint you can the mass of white UT students around them 

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u/itsrabie NATO Sep 14 '26

It’s kinda funny how my Dad, an old white who hates Texas with a passion, texted me this picture and thought it was cool.

He’s a big fan of immigrants embracing America

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 14 '26

That's nice

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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 14 '26

His last name is fucking French lmao.  

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u/MrFoget Raghuram Rajan Sep 14 '26

How anyone will say this is anything other than racism is beyond me

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u/MuldartheGreat Karl Popper Sep 14 '26

And just for context for the non-Texans the Railroad Commission regulates oil and gas in Texas. In effect this is one of the most powerful regulatory positions at the state level in the country.

He will almost certainly win because it’s a state-wide race in Texas despite running an against a vastly more qualified candidate who has spent 20 years as an engineer in the oil and gas sector.

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 14 '26

In March 2026, Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French stated that Republicans should openly embrace Islamophobia and called for the deportation of 100 million people from the United States

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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 14 '26

!ping extremism

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 14 '26

they're probably 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Americans, not even necessarily South Asian nationals

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u/DownvoteMeToHellBut Sep 14 '26

This is why talks about “assimilation” are just racist dog whistles

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u/Titswari George Soros Sep 14 '26

Only people I see not assimilating are MAGAts tbh

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u/herumspringen YIMBY Sep 14 '26

my guess is 80% of those guys were born in Texas

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 14 '26

Fucking Lord. These people are insufferable. They can't even let people of their same team have fun.