Conservative Indian-Australian Really Just Asking For The Bare Minimum Here

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As the fall-out from Senator Jacinta Price’s comments continue to forge a canyon-like divide through the Liberal Party, Australians are now learning a new word.

The word is ‘Indophobia’ – and it is neologism formed from India and -phobia. It refers to the prejudice, collective hatred, fear, or institutional discrimination directed towards Indian people for any variety of reasons.

Unlike the heyday of domestic Islamophobia, the Australian people haven’t been at the receiving end of any fundamentalist Indian terrorism. that may have seeded a lack of social cohesion.

Indophobia is also dissimilar to ‘homophobia’ in that there is very little media discourse surrounding the lifestyles of Indian people that may influence the type of bigotry that our nation experienced in the decades leading up to the legalisation of marriage equality.

It actually makes very little sense that an ethnic group that has had a presence in Australia since the earliest days of colonial settlement, with a long-standing visibility in both rural and metropolitan areas, would now be the target for political scapegoating.

It’s for this reason that Australians, both Indian-Australians and otherwise, are scratching their heads at their heads at the Liberal Party’s newest attempt to blame subcontinental migrants for all of Australia’s woes.

While this kind of political divisiveness is certain to keep swinging voters away from the Liberal Party for another term at least, the most isolated members of the ever-shrinking conservative base are the Indian-Australians who desperately want to vote for anyone but Labor.

Betoota’s most conservative Indian-Australian, Robby Jindal (38, finance) says he’s really only asking for the bare minimum.

“If they just shut up and never said anything about Indians again, that would be enough for me to keep voting for them. But it seems some of them have decided that we’re an easy punching bag”

As a man that loathes new taxes and thinks woke politics is a cancer on democracy, Robby says it’s very weird to say it, but he felt way more at home at the Liberal Party under Peter Dutton.

“And that was a man spent $350m trying to deport a Tamil family from rural Queensland. I could make peace with that because they weren’t Indians. I could also make peace with the ‘Indian ban’ during Covid because of the case numbers.

“But now they are accusing me of being an imported Labor voter.”

“Come on guys. Get it together”