Talk:Saira Rao

Misc notes from draft
In some self-descriptions, e.g. at the bottom of this, she lists 'Healing from Hate' as one of the initiatives she's co-founded. I can't find anything about it online, including no mentions of it on her Twitter feed, so I've just left it out. Perhaps it was a venture she tried to get off the ground and eventually the idea morphed into Haven instead? Not sure.

The dates around Haven aren't completely clear either. Their Twitter account started on November 18, 2020 with a lot of tweets celebrating the launch, but then there's this from December 2019 and the domain was registered November 2019. I take it that was preliminary funding/planning and November 2020 was the more official launch.

It's odd that I can't find more about Broken News, which was apparently due for publication last Spring. Note that White Women... was announced on 1 April 2020, but it's not simply an April Fool's joke. She still mentions it in her Twitter bio and e.g. here. I'd like to find a different secondary source to cover the title, replacing the National Review piece.

The note about her Twitter visibility and persona would also be strengthened with broader secondary sources. I limited the primary sources in that sentence to three tweets over the last 4 days rather than cherry-picking across a longer period of time. I do think it's important that the article cover this aspect of her public life. &rsaquo; Mortee  talk 21:33, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Blatant Racism
Change out "white" with any other race in her statements. What do you think of it now? Racist right? People need to stand up to all racism. She is not a good person and this article makes her seem like a crusader. 2600:1011:B01A:9F25:6191:BC45:6905:8105 (talk) 03:15, 10 December 2021 (UTC)


 * They think it’s empowering, stunning and brave. 49.130.129.236 (talk) 10:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Racist.
I'm not a wikipedian, but I'm hoping a wikipedian could possibly undo some of the extreme bias of this article. It appears managed by a PR firm at this point. This person is SOLELY known for their racist posts online, they are not known by anyone except maybe a dozen people on Earth for anything BUT their racist tirades and hatred of indigenous Europeans. Her content, if the word 'white' were substituted as the user above me points out were replaced with ANY other ethnic group she would immediately be banned from all platforms and this article would start with pointing out clearly in the lede she is a racist. Self professed too. Can we have a little bit of consistency here? This person has said the most vile racist shit I have ever read on the internet. I'm not even white but I find her rabid hatred of white folk to be beyond disgusting. 2001:8003:3647:C000:5974:8102:7075:2238 (talk) 05:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC)


 * We know what Rao has said, but we don't know if she necessarily believes it. She is a brilliant entrepreneur who caters to white women who are willing to pay $5,000 to be told that they are racist. She is meeting an unmet demand in the marketplace. For all we know, Rao doesn't necessarily believe a single word of what she says. I think of Rao like the people who write astrology books. They know that what they are are peddling is bogus, but they are smart enough to realize that there are people are who willing to pay money for it. SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 22:24, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Forget it mate, it's wikipedia. Blueanon power-users in this place will do anything to whitewash the most vile leftist, even when they commit terrorism. It turns out any news source that criticizes leftists is an unreliable source, so very conveniently no criticism of leftists is allowed on wikipedia. 64.119.9.36 (talk) 02:22, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

This reads like it was written by the subject
This article reads like the subject - or someone she directed - wrote it. Is it up to Wikipedia’s standards? 71.218.184.112 (talk) 17:33, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. At the very least, it does not at all reflect how controversial she is. If the majority of attention someone receives is negative, there should probably be some criticism cited in the article. 98.117.94.168 (talk) 00:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I think it’s because there weren’t a lot of reliable sources reporting on her more inflammatory/incendiary statements. That has since changed, due to her recent comments about Palestine (which led to the CAA cutting ties with her, among other things). I added a section about the Palestine controversies to the article.2600:1014:B077:312A:300D:B040:B54A:362C (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)