The STEM grind very easily feeds into fascism without proper political education, too.
And feeds into dumbass silicon valley and elon musk worship and complete hatred of anything humanities related (although these dorks still love sci-fi and other stuff that actually requires some knowledge of writing/creativity)
Indian comrades have been doing a lot of poli-ed about it.
Has it been an uphill road? How is the education going?
but then as soon as they find out she’s Muslim they get hostile and threatening to her and want to argue about it.
Like while she’s checking out her groceries in line? Wtf do they even argue to her about?
Lemme know if you get any funny looks or reactions.
In addition to what others have said, it’s also the model minority thing. There’s a good portion about this in a book called “We Too Sing America” by Deepa Ayer. She described a “racial bribe” phenomenon (sorry long quotes coming through, I’ve bolded important parts):
If you wanna read more about it, just look up “We Too Sing America” by Deepa Ayer. Here are some links from Anna’s Archive:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9b7552f3607e8244dd8abe93d3ea2a50 (epub)
https://annas-archive.org/md5/cf043ff43fcc1b4e14db31fa0ece2b9c (pdf)