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#AcademicHinduphobia
Racist white privileged professor attacks a brown NJ Hindu assembly member for calling out bigotry against his own community, and then plans to use that as “teaching material” in her classrooms. 🤨Notice…👇🏽1/n
Racist white privileged professor attacks a brown NJ Hindu assembly member for calling out bigotry against his own community, and then plans to use that as “teaching material” in her classrooms. 🤨Notice…👇🏽1/n
1) …she has blocked two major Hindu orgs for not bending to her propaganda (left side)
2) she implies that somehow these orgs were responsible for “death threats” against scholars - a complete and blatant fabrication
3) she accuses NJ Democrats of being unethical 2/n
2) she implies that somehow these orgs were responsible for “death threats” against scholars - a complete and blatant fabrication
3) she accuses NJ Democrats of being unethical 2/n
This is how unethical scholarship is used to advance hatred against and silence an entire minority community. Had this been bigotry against any other community, her own university would not have tolerated it. But, then again, this is how #AcademicHinduphobia manifests. 3/n
THREAD: Does @UCBerkeley supports #AcademicHinduphobia and #bigotry advanced by @SugataRay1 and @ISASatBerkeley. "Research-based scholarly discussions"? A great example of intellectual dishonesty! Let's see 1/n
As we showed in our letter, the speakers and conference resources have a history of advancing bigotry and #Hinduphobia, disparaging Hindu deities and supporting violent political movements. 2/n cohna.org/dismantlehindu…
One of the keynote speakers has called Shri Rama a "di**head" while another has created a short film that false projects the Ramayana as a racist epic that endorses casteism based on colonial theories. "Scholarly discussions"? 3/n
