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Nimarata Randhawa was like many second-generation immigrants. She was often bullied at her predominantly white elementary school and grew up in a family of practicing Sikhs. Her parents, Ajit Singh and Raj Kaur Randhawa, initially struggled to find someone who would rent a home to them in Bamberg, South Carolina. They ran a small boutique called Exotica where Nimarata helped out with bookkeeping. The Randhawas replaced the bare ceiling of the shop with rows of red and blue tiles in honor of the American flag they even bought fifty glittery white stars to adorn it.

At first glance, Nimaratas story appears to be a familiar one echoing the tale of many immigrant families that have an unwavering belief in elusive vignettes of the American dream. But today, Nimarata Randhawa is known as Nikki Haley, and her story is largely unfamiliar to many immigrants. Haley, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, has made headlines for her once-staunch support of Donald Trump and defense of his many contentious policies, such as the infamous Muslim Ban. Now, shes risen to new heights as the first woman of color to be a major contender for the Republican nomination for president. Unfortunately, Haley does not want you to know that. She has spent years distancing herself from her Indian background in order to fit in with her conservative allies who let's face it couldn't care less about her experiences as a person of color. Though Haleys candidacy is historic, the precedent that it sets for identity in elections is problematic.

In some ways, Haley employs her Indian background to absolve herself of what she perceives to be thorny identity politics. I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants not Black, not white. I was different, she says in her campaign announcement video released last month, marketing herself as transcending some sort of national Black and white divide. This thinly veiled attempt to appeal to the racist undertones of todays Republican Party is part of Haleys effort to fit in with a political base that struggles to engage with nuance on issues of identity. Her rhetoric is reminiscent of some twisted form of satire: During the 2020 Republican National Convention, Haley said My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a Brown girl in a Black and white world.

This complicated racial dance, as POLITICO has called it, has always advantaged Haley, who is able to accentuate her identity when it best serves her and abandon it when it does not. This dynamic can be traced back to the beginning of her political career, when she made history by becoming the second Indian governor elected in America. Then, she promptly signed legislation that authorized police forces to check the immigration status of arrestees and favored major abortion crackdowns, calling pro-choice feminism not real feminism.

If Haley thinks this fence-sitting approach will let her ride a wave of Indian American support to the Republican nomination, shes probably wrong: The National Asian American Survey has revealed that Indian American voters overwhelmingly identify as Democrats or independents. Despite the fact that Haley continues to attempt to win over the South Asian community through staged photo-ops making roti at a Sikh temple in New Delhi and frequent references to her Punjabi heritage she has previously listed herself as white on her voter registration card and is no longer Sikh. She converted to Christianity at age 24.

But will Haley be able to employ her identity to occupy the moral high ground on issues of race and politics in the post-Trump era? The answer is unclear. Haleys campaign strategy attempts to cater to both voters excited about diverse leadership and those who reject the existence of modern racism. But what is certain is that Haleys effort to win over Republican primary voters by rejecting America's racist history will ultimately cause more harm than good for marginalized communities in the United States.

Haleys political approach is especially bleak considering her own struggle with discrimination in the political realm. In a South Carolina runoff election, her opponent sent out mailers emblazoned with pictures of her dad in his turban and revealed her birth name to voters. After her recent presidential announcement, conservative pundit Ann Coulter asked Why don't you go back to your own country? Left without the support of her fellow conservatives Haley polled at 4% in a Morning Consult poll of likely contenders for the Republican primary nomination and unlikely to win over the Indian American community, it is unclear what Haleys contributions to history will be in this election. In the likely scenario that Joe Biden runs with Kamala Harris as his vice president, there could potentially be two South Asian women on the 2024 ballot. The interesting thing here to note is the ambiguity of this identity neither of these women are socially read as being South Asian. This raises questions about the ways in which South Asian identity is perceived and valued in American politics, and whether the potential successes of these politicians truly represent progress for all Indian American women.

2024 had the potential to be a watershed moment for Indian Americans in politics, with both Haley and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy entering the Republican primary. But neither of these candidates are interested in using their platforms to boost Indian voices in fact, Ramaswamy is running on a so-called anti-woke platform. This is a sobering reminder that mere representation will never be adequate progress, making it difficult to decide whether this new wave of Indian identity in American politics can be framed as a positive development for the community.

Although many predict that Haley will most likely be relegated to a pool of potential vice presidential candidates, her campaign is a defining moment for candidates of color. But while her resume may make her an eminently qualified Republican to run for president her unique brand of hypocrisy will make it impossible for her to appeal to her own community or to MAGA Republicans. Despite her best efforts, Haleys back-and-forth relationship with her own identity has begun to shine through the cracks, most likely sinking her own presidential bid and setting back Indian Americans.

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In the spring of 1844, the Latter-day Saints received a curious visitor to Nauvoo, Illinois.

Josiah Quincy, future mayor of Boston and the son of the president of Harvard, had traveled to Nauvoo with his cousin, Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, to tour the Mississippi River. During their stay in Nauvoo, the travelers met with Joseph Smith and toured the city. Some years later, Quincy published his observations of Smith and the Latter-day Saints for a literary magazine in New York. Among the many anecdotes he captured, one has particular salience today.

Quincy describes surveying a beautiful grove with Joseph Smith where there were seats and a platform for speaking. Smith explained that the Latter-day Saints held services in the grove at which point a Methodist minister traveling with the group said, I suppose none but Mormon preachers are allowed in Nauvoo.Joseph Smiths response was perhaps surprising: On the contrary, he replied, I shall be very happy to have you address my people next Sunday, and I will ensure you a most attentive congregation.

What! do you mean that I may say anything I please, and that you will make no reply?, the minister queried, according to Quincys account.

You may certainly say anything you please; but I must reserve the right of adding a word or two, if I judge best. I promise to speak of you in the most respectful manner.

What strikes us about this story is Joseph Smiths willingness to allow for the expression of differing opinions even potentially hostile opinions in an environment of respect.

In the past week a public campaign has gathered momentum, seeking to encourage Southern Utah University to rescind its invitation to Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to provide the keynote address for the Commencement ceremony in conjunction with the institutions 125th anniversary year. And just last month, two hours before the concert was scheduled to begin, Pensacola Christian College cancelled a performance of The Kings Singers because of concerns with the sexual identity of one or more of the groups members.

These kinds of cancellations and petitions have increased markedly in the last decade against professors and other speakers on campus, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and its work to compile episodes where somebody tries to block or prevent a speaker from being featured on a college or university campus. Their Disinvitation Database also confirms a pressure to cancel coming from both the left and the right, with 28% of commencement disinvitations in the last two decades coming from pressure on the right and 63% from pressure on the left (with another 9% from unspecified sources).

Among other examples, intimidation from the political right led to cancellations against Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Richard Dawkins, and Chelsea Manning while intimidation from the political left led to cancellations of Ann Coulter, Ben Carson, Ben Shapiro and Ivanka Trump.

Weve both had our own experiences with pressure campaigns including a recent university cancellation. New York Times JournalistThomas Edsall quotesJonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at Brookings, explaining some of the larger forces behind these growing instances of public outrage among students. Among other things, he notes: Universities are consumeristic these days and very image-conscious, and so they have trouble withstanding pressure from their customers, e.g., activist students.

Rauch, a respected writer who identifies as gay, also adds that activists have figured out that they can have disproportionate influence by claiming to be physically endangered and psychologically traumatized by speech that offends them. In the same article, Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard recounts how activists have learned to deploy skillfully the language of hurt as in I dont care what the speakers intentions were, what the speaker said has hurt my feelings and ought therefore to be prohibited.

But intention really does matter. In the case of Elder Holland, his full remarks make clear that his intent was to call for more robust efforts to defend his faith tradition and teachings not to attack a particular community, and certainly not to justify physical violence.And as many know well, Elder Holland has gone out of his way over the years to cultivate friendship and build bridges across differences. Even so, some heard what he said as unsupportive of people who identify as LGBTQ. When meaningful differences in perspective like this exist, those disagreements should be an invitation for more dialogue and discussion, not less.

We know how it feels to express opinions, sometimes even controversial opinions, and be met with some version of cancellation or deplatforming, rather than further opportunities for dialogue and exchange. Tom recently had an invitation withdrawn to address a university audience. And organizations have been pressured to rescind invitations for Jacob to speak.

Identity disagreements can be especially challenging. As one professor shared with us recently, How do we deal with the fact that many people in our campus communities think that particular (usually conservative) viewpoints shouldnt be expressed because another person feels they are a threat to their identity?

Yet as weve learned in our own friendship, its possible to disagree about identity and other important questions, and still love, respect, admire and support each other. And we unitedly push back on the idea that disagreements about identity, marriage or politics means we cannot still hear each other with respect. That is simply not the case even if growing numbers insist it must be.

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy went on to encourage leaders on campus to become much more skeptical and tough-minded when encountering the language of hurt so as to avoid incentivizing those who deploy the specters of bigotry, privilege and trauma to further diminish vital academic, intellectual and aesthetic freedoms. Its also worth noting that online petitions are open to widely disparate communities far removed from the local institution in question becoming a measure, perhaps, of a particular groups enthusiasm rather than broadly representative of those with an immediate stake in the question.

The good news is that in more than half of documented instances of public pressure campaigns to convince a university to cancel a speaker or event, universities stood firm and refused to cancel.Analyst Zachary Greenberg told us that once a school takes a strong stand against censorship and for free speech, it may deter attempts to persuade that school to disinvite speakers. Conversely, university acquiescence to disinvitation demands encourages more demands.

In our view, the point of a university education is not simply the essential engagement with conflicting ideas, but also regularly practicing the life skills necessary for individual growth at any age, in any setting.

Being willing to assume a speakers good intentions, and even good-heartedness, does not require a listener to agree with a given speaker.But it does require that we willingly expose ourselves to the discomfort of hearing our conclusions challenged.And it requires that we extend to those with whom we disagree the grace we ourselves hope to find.

This group of SUU students, much like Elder Holland expressed to BYU employees, rightly sees convocation as a visible demonstration of the core values of an educational institution.Yet by making space for a diversity of perspectives, we are walking the talk of inclusion and belonging.

We hope all institutions conservative or liberal, religious or secular will be more courageous, willing to trust the ability of those in the audience to weed out what is not valuable to them.We hope that SUU and its entire student body, faculty and staff will show the courage many other institutions lack and will listen with respect, if not agreement, to the insights of wise and wonderful people like a methodist minister in an open-air grove in 1844 or a Latter-day Saint apostle in a Southern Utah University auditorium in 2023.

Tom Christofferson is the author of That We May Be One and A Better Heart. Jacob Hess is the author of Youre Not as Crazy as I Thought (But Youre Still Wrong) with Phil Neisser and with Carrie Skarda, Kyle Anderson and Ty Mansfield, hes the author of The Power of Stillness: Mindful Living for Latter-day Saints.

Utah First Lady Abby Cox, from left, Sister Patricia Holland, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a member of the Hollands security team stand on stage as Jeffrey Holland is awarded the Rural Legacy Leader award at the One Utah Summit 2021 at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.

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It isnt only Donald Trump tossing out the insults these days.

Racism, sexism and ageism have already raised their ugly heads and the presidential campaigns have barely begun. And, sadly, it seems most of the recent insults and derogatory remarks have been directed at the female candidates.

One of the latest flaps was Don Lemons snarky comment about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on CNN.

Talking about her suggestion that all presidential candidates over the age of 75 should be required to pass a cognition test to make sure their intellectual capacities have not diminished, Lemon said of the 50ish Haley, Nikki Haley isnt in her prime. Sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime is her 20s and 30s maybe 40s.

As you can imagine, it all hit the fan.

Lemon later apologized and CNN Chairman Chris Licht told his staff Lemons comments were upsetting, unacceptable and unfair.

Reaction from New Jersey former Gov. Dick Codey, after Republican State Chairman Bob Hugin insulted Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, was a lot stronger.

The language and the attitude are classless and inexcusable. Chairman Hugin should resign immediately, said Codey after Hugin called Sherrill a piece of sh-- congresswoman after she defeated his candidate in Somerset County.

Sherrill shrugged off the insult and Haley used the offense against her to launch a fund-raising campaign.

But it isnt only men picking on the women.

On ABCs The View, host Sunny Hostins comments about Haley were blasted as a racist attack. She went off on a rant about the former UN ambassador, saying she was using a fake name to hide her Indian heritage. Haleys birth name is Nimrata, but shes been known as Nikki since grade school.

Ironically, Hostin also uses a nickname, claiming she calls herself Sunny because undereducated Americans dont know how to pronounce Ascunsion.

Then conservative pundit Ann Coulter weighed in. Nastily, as always. On the Mark Simone podcast, she made several xenophobic comments about Haley. Although the former South Carolina governor was born in the United States to Indian immigrants, Coulter taunted, Why dont you go back to your own country?

Haleys not going to have it easy on the campaign trail. Nor will Kamala Harris, Marianne Williamson or any of the other women considering a run for the White House. But Im certain that wont deter them. After a short time in public life, you build up callouses to prevent your feeling wounded when you are deliberately or inadvertently insulted.

Things have undoubtedly improved for female candidates. There were six major contestants for the White House in 2020 and there may be even more this year. Not long ago Christie Whitman was a sensation as a female governor; now there are 12 in states and a few more in American territories.

However, as an editorial in this newspaper said only a short time ago, New Jersey still lags in electing women. Sometimes it is indeed the old boys network that selects mostly male candidates, but as often it is because women are unable or unwilling to put in the work necessary to climb the political ladder.

Women undoubtedly have the knowledge to seriously address public issues, and Rutgers has a program on navigating the politics of becoming known and trusted by both party decision-makers and voters.

The Institute for Womens Leadership at Rutgers University offers excellent training to potential candidates, and I recommend that any woman interested in public affairs should enroll. Unfortunately, theyll probably need to continue teaching the girls how to ignore an insult for some time to come.

A former assemblywoman from Jersey City, Joan Quigley is the president and CEO of North Hudson Community Action Corp.

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According to the latest census data, the foreign-born share of the American population is close to a historic high. In 2021, approximately 13.6% of the population was born outside of the U.S.second only to 14.8% in 1890.

Some Americans are wary of this upward trend. Still, U.S. history should teach us that the new arrivals in our country will only work to our cultural benefit.

The Irish diasporanow tightly interwoven into the fabric of American culture faced many of the same challenges, suspicions, and stereotypes as todays immigrants.

This is important because a common line of the modern immigration-skeptic argument is that previous waves were fundamentally different from the current one because those immigrants had positive attributes that todays new arrivals lack. This creates a separation between the imagined good immigrant of previous centuries and the bad immigrant of the 21st century.

For example, in attempting to differentiate recent Hispanic migration from that of older groups, political scientist Samuel Huntington favorably quoted Lionel Sosas description of Hispanic cultural traits as: mistrust of people outside the family; lack of initiative, self-reliance, and ambition; low priority for education; acceptance of poverty as a virtue necessary for entrance into heaven. More recently (and more crudely), Ann Coulter authored a book centered on this premise.

This description is eerily similar to characterizations of 19th-century Irish immigrants. In his book The Boston Irish: A Political History, historian Thomas H. OConnor notes that the majority of Irish Catholic immigrants were perceived as being deeply clannish, parochial, and suspicious of enterprise and innovation, on the whole more influenced by the appeals of continuity and tradition than calls for change and innovation.

Despite this dire prognosis, the Irish in America, made their way up the economic ladder into the middle class within two generations. Indeed, in his book Wherever the Green is Worn, historian Tim Pat Coogan notes that by the late 1990s, up to 30% of all American Fortune 500 CEOs were of Irish descent. This begs the question: why should we believe that identical cultural claims made against the current groups of immigrants will prove correct?

The purported political inclinations of immigrants and their descendants have also been perceived through a determinist lens. On the left, some expect these changes to usher in a new era of progressive dominance. On the right, it is often taken as a given that these trends will strain social cohesion and fundamentally alter the nature of American politics.

Still, fears (or hopes) that immigrant groups will irreversibly tilt the country towards one party are unfounded. OConnor writes that it took several decades and great reluctance for the Irish to organize into a cohesive political front. Today, other leading experts on Irish in America argue that the Irish vote is split between the parties, with some arguing that there is no longer a distinctively Irish American bloc. Indeed, Coogan bemoans that the robust Irish-American diaspora has not worked to Irelands benefit regarding U.S. foreign policy.

Whats more, the one-size-fits-all mentality regarding immigrant political inclinations has proven patently false, as the Irish test case can demonstrate. Even during their heyday as consistent Democratic voters, many Irish-Americans clashed with their party on social issues, most famously in the case of racially integrated bussing programs. Today, many newer immigrant groups are assumed to be a liberal constituency, when much like the Irish immigrants before them, they are often more moderate than progressive voters.

As recent trends in Hispanic and Asian voting patterns demonstrate, immigrant voters and their descendants cant be neatly tied to any one partyand as history has taught us, likely never will be.

The largely negative and often misguided stereotypes assigned to the Irish diaspora could easily have stymied their experience inand contributions tothe U.S., had they not worked hard to disprove these preconceived notions. The similarities between these 19th century stereotypes and those used to describe todays new immigrants in the U.S. is nothing short of jarring. If we should learn anything from the Irish experience, its that immigrant groups are not a monolith, and treating them as such undermines the myriad benefits they can bring to American society.

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