Jayme Deerwester

USA TODAY

Stars, they're just like us — as in not immune from the alarming number of racially-motivated altercations since Donald Trump's presidential election victory.

Kumail Nanjiani, the Pakistani-American comedian who plays software engineer Dinesh on HBO's Silicon Valley, took to Twitter Saturday to share what happened to him and co-star Thomas Middleditch when they went out for drinks the previous night in Los Angeles' Silver Lake district.

The two were approached by a pair of young white men in their 20s who wouldn't take no for an answer when the actors declined to discuss Trump. The men appeared to be spoiling for a fight and repeatedly called them "cucks." (The term is short for "cuckservative," an alt-right twist on the word "cuckold," or the weak, emasculated husband of an adulterous wife who derives a sexual thrill from humiliation.)

Luckily a bartender intervened and kicked the troublemakers out, but Najiani said both he and Middleditch were "stunned."

What truly floored Nanjiani, who grew up in Karachi but went to college in the USA and has dual citizenship, was that this happened to him in the middle of a crowded bar in the liberal bastion of Los Angeles. "I can't imagine what it must be like to be someone who looks like me in other parts," he admitted, urging his followers not to let tolerance of hate, racism, bigotry and sexism become the new normal.

To those who don't believe their vote for Trump automatically makes them racist or sexist, he has this to say: "OK, but at best, you ignored it. You overlooked it. We thought the Internet would give us access to (people) with different points of view. Instead, it gave us access to many (people) with the same point of view."