Actually. What started this whole fiasco. Was some Indian Tech CEO spouting off about eliminating caps on H1Bs.

And things spiraled from there. With Elon and Vivek weighing in. In turned something that would have likely blown over in a day. Into a multi-day fiasco.

It’s been a mask off moment for a lot of people though. Some of the ‘Highly Skilled’ H1Bs who’ve also been spouting off generally do seem to resent White Americans.

There’s the White People who don’t like anyone who can’t trace their ancestry to Western Europe.

Then you’ve got the White people who feel like they can finally get a weight off their chest. After a decade or two of anger and resentment by Corporations prioritizing profits and Diversity at cost to White Americans. Which often comes off as racist tirades. When it’s less they are actually legitimately racist and more they’ve just been angry for years and years. And a lot of hard feelings are being dropped all at once in a public setting.

And then there’s people, often immigrants, angrily replying. And saying yet more harsh and heinous shit. Vivek and Elon have both in the past 2 days called White Americans Lazy, and Retarded the past few days. Though Elon has since deleted some of those Tweets.

There’s also Trolls on all sides seeking to inflame tensions and cause chaos.

On the bright side. It’s put a spotlight on the Abuses of the H1B program. The tendency of Corporations to privatize Benefits and socialize their loses. And the over reliance of Tech on comparatively cheap H1B expertise they can work like Dogs.

Honestly if they had said something like “We’ll need the expertise of H1Bs for the immediate future. But we will invest X amount of Dollars in building Merit-Based American Educational Infrastructure and Expertise for our industry.”

They probably would have been able to head off quite a bit of the outrage.