That wasn't true yesterday when I was watching CNN yesterday and a guest brought it up. It was shut down right away by the host.
Now if someone believes that Nikki isn't an Indian name, I fail to see how that is racist. If they keep repeating that she changed her name for a political purpose, then I will agree with you. Like when Trump claimed BO wasn't born here. Would you call that a conversative position or nutcase right position.
Answering the BO q first, it's not a conservative position. It's a position some (nutcase) conservatives have.
When I use the term progressives, I'm referring to people more to the left than mainstream Ds, what you might call nutcases. Like I said, MSM has long debunked the whole thing. The irony is that they bill themselves as progressive in that they are not racist, not misogynist, etc. *They* are the progressives after all! But it turns out they are just as racist as their counterparts on the right, they just mask it better.
They know that Nikki is her name and that it is on her birth certificate. Yet many progressives call her by her other names. They are convinced she must have "disowned" the other names, and are trying to mock her by using them. Remember when Sunny Hostin called her out for disowning her heritage when she herself goes by a different name because she says people can't pronounce her real name!