Vivek Ramaswamy Rage Quits Social Media After Being Bullied For Being Indian

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced in a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed that he had quit Instagram and X after facing attacks for being Indian.

Ramaswamy previously wrote in a Dec. 17 New York Times op-ed that his “social media feeds littered with hundreds of slurs … about ‘pajeets’ and ‘street shitters’ and calls to deport ‘back to India,’” despite being born in the United States and never living elsewhere. He wrote in the WSJ piece that what he saw on social media did not reflect his real-world experiences.

“In 2025 I saw a spate of shocking racial slurs and worse on social media. Yet that same year I visited tens of thousands of voters across all of Ohio’s 88 counties—from inner cities to farms, union halls to factories, Republican rallies to one-on-one discussions with protesters—and I didn’t hear a single bigoted remark from an Ohio voter the entire year,” Ramaswamy wrote.

Ramaswamy noted that quitting social media was his New Year’s resolution for 2026.

“If my current New Year’s resolution resembles past ones, I might be back to scrolling X by March,” he wrote. “But for now I’m running the experiment, and I invite my fellow Republicans to join me. Who knows, it might be the extra X-factor that helps us secure victories in 2026.”

Nick Fuentes has also attacked Ramaswamy over his heritage and took credit for his social media departure in a Monday X post