Minhaj often talks about his immigrant upbringing and the social alienation that sometimes came with being a racial minority in his home town. The central story of his first Netflix special, “Homecoming King,” which was released in 2017, is about his crush on a friend, a white girl with whom he shared a stolen kiss and who accepted his invitation to prom but later reneged in a humiliating fashion; Minhaj showed up on her doorstep the night of the dance, only to see another boy putting a corsage on her wrist. Onstage, Minhaj says that his friend’s parents didn’t want their daughter to take pictures with a brown boy, because they were concerned about what their relatives might think. “I’d eaten off their plates,” Minhaj says. “I’d kissed their daughter. I didn’t know that people could be bigoted even as they were smiling at you.”
But the woman disputed certain facts. She told me that she’d turned down Minhaj, who was then a close friend, in person, days before the dance. Minhaj acknowledged that this was correct, but he said that the two of them had long carried different understandings of her rejection. As a “brown kid in Davis, California,” he said, he’d been conditioned to put his head down and “just take it, and I did.” The “emotional truth” of the story he told onstage was resonant and justified the fabrication of details. “There are so many other kids who have had a similar sort of doorstep experience,” he said.
The woman also said that she and her family had faced online threats and doxing for years because Minhaj had insufficiently disguised her identity, including the fact that she was engaged to an Indian American man. A source with knowledge of the production said that, during the show’s Off Broadway run, Minhaj had used a real picture of the woman and her partner, with their faces blurred, projected behind him as he told the story.
The woman said that Minhaj had invited her and her husband to an Off Broadway performance. She had initially interpreted the invitation as an attempt to rekindle an old friendship, but she now believes the move was meant to humiliate her. Later, she said, when she confronted Minhaj about the online threats brought on by the Netflix special—“I spent years trying to get threads taken down,” she told me—Minhaj shrugged off her concerns. Minhaj said that he didn’t recall that interaction, and pointed to the fact that he had been in touch with her prior to the airing of the special, recommending she scrub social-media posts that might indicate her relationship to him. Minhaj also noted that the tone of their texts and e-mails was always friendly.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/hasan-minhajs-emotional-truths
All this for a girl who rejected you in HIGHSCHOOL 🤢!?!?!
Hasan used his platform to punish a women he felt he deserved. The public ate that shit up and it feed into his good guy narrative. They harassed her for years and I'm sure he got a kick out of it. That poor woman.
Rejected men are something else. Do not engage with them ever. No matter how many years have passed by...they're always out to seek revenge. Save yourself the trouble and leave them on read.
Ps. I bet Hadasan was seething when he found out she married an American Indian man🤣!
she should sue him for defamation. he accused her of racism when all she did was reject him romantically. and he couldn't even take the rejection like a grown man. i mean, i understand being immature as a teenager, but exposig her as an adult in a netflix special, accusing her of a crime she didn't commit... that's a different story. men always find a way to weaponize victimhood and blame all of their problems on women.
Indian men are some of the worst, most disgusting misogynists on the globe...and before you libs cancel me, MANY Indian woman think and say the exact same.
The left will NEVER truly call this out: But men love pulling the race card to hide their sickening misogyny. It's happening in the black community right now, where BW DV victims are told not to call the cops on their man because that makes them equally as racist. I'm sure similar happens in other POC communities.
https://coburnplace.org/stories/a-layered-look-at-domestic-violence-in-the-black-community/
I stopped liking him the second I learned he really mistreated the WOC research team and writers in his employ. He seems to make shit up for attention. He also cheated on his wife Beena a lot when he was in college and starting his career in LA.
Between Hasan Piker visiting brothels and this fellow, I'm starting to think Hashans as a group kinda suck in general
YES! I remember seeing that special when it came out and deciding to never watch any of Hassan's material again because A) I HIGHLY doubted that story was true (if anything, racist parents would say something to their daughter privately) and B) maybe stop fetishizing white women. The fact that he lied about it and punished her for rejecting him completely checks out and confirms my suspicions. As a white woman who has been accused of racism for rejecting non white men more times than I count (Dude, I rejected you because you're a scrote, not because you're brown, and I've rejected plenty of white scrotes while we're at it), the whole story made my Spidey senses tingle.
It reminded me of when I left a party once even though it took me an hour to get there, I had friends I really wanted to see, and I had just arrived because some friend of a friend happened to open the door, ask for my number immediately, and then proceeded to harass me for politely refusing to give it to him. He was following me around and kept drunkenly asking "why won't you date black people? Cmon, why??" Out of my frustration, I finally snapped back, "I don't know, (guy's name), why won't YOU?' And then I left.
deranged, absolutely deranged. he's a grown ass man with a family hung up over one white girl's rejection in high school? look, I'm a vindictive bitch with bones to pick with dudes who mistreated me in the past but flashing up a poorly blurred photo of them and their partner to strangers?? insane. it's one thing for a teenage olivia rodrigo to write a couple albums about a trash ass dude who verifiably was a shithead (as evidenced by several other songs written by at least 1 other woman who dated him). it's quite another for a grown, married man to fabricate shit that happened years ago to hide a rejection...from someone who truly did not mistreat him in any way, AND to slander her family and call them racist as well. turns out he not her was the shitty friend. i swear its nothing but projection with these dudes.
The fact that he held on to this resentment against white women for years is break brown incel type behavior. Brown men are strangely obsessed with white women, even in South Asia (look at their media) so I'd caution white women against them.