A Pentagon video portraying an Indian American as a potentially “high threat” with potentially “divided loyalty” is outraging members of the South Asian American community, reports News Track India
The video portraying a fictional character named Hema is part of an on-line security training test and states:
“Based on statements, this employee demonstrates divided loyalty. Paired with her financial difficulties and foreign travel, she is a high threat.”
The video which was originally reported by the Huffington Post is drawing intense reaction.
“We think the training would have been much more true-to-life if Hema had been the child of a Welsh immigrant a la (Bradley) Manning.” wrote the South Asian blog site Aerogram.
“For us, the strangest part of seeing someone like the fictional Hema classified as a high risk threat is that travelling internationally, exercising the rights to free speech and having political opinions are generally indicators of a well-rounded, actively involved citizen,” they wrote.
You can read more reaction in News Track India.
