Raja Krishnamoorthi
Role at the time: U.S. representative posting through his official congressional X account.
Condemned
Responding to
French’s posts demeaned the pictured people because of their race or ethnicity.
“Bo, you don’t know America. Your xenophobic hate toward South Asian students is disgraceful and part of a broader rise in attacks targeting South Asian Americans across the country. These young people were cheering for their university, and you chose to demonize them based solely on how they look.”
Why we used this label
Krishnamoorthi explicitly condemns the conduct under scrutiny and identifies appearance-based treatment as the reason.
Raja Krishnamoorthi condemns Bo French’s post as xenophobic (opens in a new tab)X post 2099248617932615800.
Krishnamoorthi’s official congressional account directly responds to French’s displacement post.