r/PoursTea • u/No_Cow5624 • Aug 09 '26

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u/goatbiryani48 Aug 09 '26

Just a small correction, but Nikki is an Indian name as well. It's literally Haley's middle name, and a lot of Indians do something similar to that

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u/ReturnoftheBulls2022 Aug 09 '26

Most people wouldn't assume of Nikki as an ethnic name and would assume that it would be short for Nicole.

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u/goatbiryani48 Aug 09 '26

So? Do non-WASPs have to have spicy names just for your pleasure?

Famous presidents have gone by their middle names...I don't see anyone getting on a high horse about Thomas Woodrow Wilson or David Dwight Eisenhower.

Nikki Haley has been going by that since she was a child, well before she was a spineless conservative. Why does she have to change how shes addressed to fit your narrative that she hides her indian identity?

4, out of 6, congresspeople of Indian origin use shortened forms of names or middle names. Is that also them selling out to have broader mass appeal?

And even if this thread was right about why she goes by that name, why are you angry at a brown woman for being forced to "change" her name so racists don't abort her career?