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Hasan Minhaj plays the brown victim in the name of comedy

Indian-American comedian Hasan Minhaj was recently exposed by The New Yorker for lying during his comedy specials about specific hate crimes he endured. He claims that while these may not be factual truths, they are “emotional truths” because of the discrimination South Asians face in a post-9/11 America. Illustration by Leo Preston.

In Indian-American comedian Hasan Minhaj’s 2022 Netflix stand-up special, “The King’s Jester,” he tells a tale from 2002 of an FBI informant who infiltrated a Sacramento-area mosque. The…