“Indian Bpo Employees Are Slumdogs” Says An American Radio Host
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Controversial American talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who fashions himself as the new ‘face’ of the US Republican Party, has raised another storm by calling workers handling outsourced jobs in India as ’slumdogs’.
Limbaugh, who has been accused of making insensitive remarks from women to disabled to homosexuals, hurled the epithet picked up from the Danny Boyle’s smash-hit film Slumdog Millionaire at a discussion last week on outsourcing of jobs from America.
“There’s a reason (these jobs) aren’t coming back. They’re outsourced for a reason, an economic reason, and they’re not coming back,” Limbaugh said, in response to a caller named Terry from Ohio, who had not even referenced India. (more…)
