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#Casteism has to end.
To end the #Casteism we need to know where it began.
Church sanctioned unimaginable violence against natives during the colonial expansion using Dum Diversas doctrine.
To end the #Casteism we need to know where it began.
Church sanctioned unimaginable violence against natives during the colonial expansion using Dum Diversas doctrine.
To prevent the newly proselytized natives from using same doctrine against the conquistadors church created elaborate system of Casta in the Americas.
Commissioned Casta paintings to keep them as as reference to divide population into various castes.
Commissioned Casta paintings to keep them as as reference to divide population into various castes.
Mexican historian Gregorio T Quintero asserts that Casta paintings served as visual aid for the parishioners who needed a caste indentity of anyone who wanted to be baptized, married, or buried.
Such was the hold of castes in America during 16th, 17th, and 18th century.
Such was the hold of castes in America during 16th, 17th, and 18th century.
Your journey towards alien faith begins with making you disrespect your own faith. That is how #Thekeralastory begins. There are some favourite tropes which are used. I don’t care what your individual stand it, in larger cause, one must accept and work on it.
First one is - Caste. #Caste is a Portuguese concept. Hinduism has Varna. All Varna’s are said to have emerged from Brahma- the Divine. In Hinduism, intellectuals since eternity understood the divisive impact of Caste. So in earliest times, Manu marries daughter to Brahmin.
#Casteism A 37-year-old Dalit panchayat president in Madurai district says she has been continuously facing humiliation by the people of a dominant Hindu caste. Of late, she has been receiving threats on her mobile phone from unknown numbers... 
Vidya, who was elected as the president of Pazhayur panchayat in Peraiyur block in Madurai district,
“Every day, the level of torture and humiliation is increasing. My mental agony can’t be explained over the phone in a few lines.”
“Every day, the level of torture and humiliation is increasing. My mental agony can’t be explained over the phone in a few lines.”
Her caste identity haunted her and she was discriminated and tortured every day by dominant caste groups (Thevar and Naicker). They mixed human faecal matter and urine in a drinking water tank in the 2021. They also dumped faeces at her office .
The latest victim of the growing hate for all things related to #Dharmic faiths. After attacking or co-opting all number of #Hindu traditions, it's now the turn of a micro-minority : the #Jain faith and being #vegetarian in general. SouthAsian vegetarians be warned! 1/n
#Caste
#Caste
During the public comments section of the @SeattleCouncil meeting on 2/14, supporters of the proposed #Caste ordinance turned their ire on the "militant vegetarianism" of #Jains. Hear the sound byte to understand the outright hate being mainstreamed!
Ironically the long and ancient tradition of #vegetarianism among SOME #Hindus, #Jains, #Sikhs and #Buddhists is under fire-even as western society as a whole discovers the benefits of a #plantbased diet and #MeatLessMonday proliferates. 3/n
Top 10 reasons to support #Vikraman𓃵 &
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
1. Never shied away from questioning any sort of abuse or unethical practices. Always took a stand for victims including his haters like #Dhana #Amudhu #Ayesha etc. #BiggBossTamil
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
1. Never shied away from questioning any sort of abuse or unethical practices. Always took a stand for victims including his haters like #Dhana #Amudhu #Ayesha etc. #BiggBossTamil
Top 10 reasons to support #Vikraman𓃵 &
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
2. Never played safe games like #Myna #Mani #ADK etc. like how they used to side with power centers. Slyly avoid & get away from the issue by playing highly diplomatic #BiggBossTamil
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
2. Never played safe games like #Myna #Mani #ADK etc. like how they used to side with power centers. Slyly avoid & get away from the issue by playing highly diplomatic #BiggBossTamil
Top 10 reasons to support #Vikraman𓃵 &
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
3. Never been disrespectful to anyone, even to those who spewed venom and hate against him (examples #Amudhu , #Azeem , #Dhana ). Treated people with respect & dignity #BiggBossTamil
Why #Vikraman deserves to win #BiggBossTamil6 title
3. Never been disrespectful to anyone, even to those who spewed venom and hate against him (examples #Amudhu , #Azeem , #Dhana ). Treated people with respect & dignity #BiggBossTamil
If the victim is from the #Dalit/ #Adivasi community, the Savarna media & intellectuals divert the whole discussion to either Hindu-Muslim or to victim blaming.
They just ignore the caste angle.
I would say ignoring #caste in such cases is a serious form of #Casteism.
They just ignore the caste angle.
I would say ignoring #caste in such cases is a serious form of #Casteism.
These incidents are inhumane & barbaric yet the discussion is revolving around Hindu- Muslim or around the Parent - child relationship. No one is interested in discussing about the problems of safety and security of women.
@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 1. #Partition1947 counterfactuals aren't counterintuitive. #Partition ended a zero sum game among the same stale set of interlocutors conducting a dialogue of the deaf #Simla, June '45 onwards. #CabinetMissionPlan's devolution did NOT solve #India's impasse.
@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 2. #Jinnah accepted the #CabinetMissionPlan for an embryonic #Pakistan was assured, and permitted to secede, come 1957, if the #confederation was not to the #MuslimLeague's liking. Routinely overlooked by #Nehru's #Indian and #Pakistani baiters.
@tanjil_rashid_ @ZareerMasani @saliltripathi 3. To iterate: #CabinetMissionPlan was a pilot project to be reviewed decadally. Just how was #India and #Nehru to embark on #economic #planning and consolidate a #democratic #union of disparate elements riven by #regionalism, #casteism and #sectarianism?
#Thread You need to keep talking about #caste to your dominant caste family members. Staying silent makes you complicit in casteist violence. It can be challenging, of course.
- What happens when you do try?
- What strategies should you use?
- Why you should do it.
- What happens when you do try?
- What strategies should you use?
- Why you should do it.
What happens when you challenge a family member about their #casteism?
- They are shocked and/or in denial
- You are afraid of hurting them or provoking their fury.
- If you are dependent on them, they might threaten to or withdraw their support
- They are shocked and/or in denial
- You are afraid of hurting them or provoking their fury.
- If you are dependent on them, they might threaten to or withdraw their support
- There is a lot of discomfort
- They may not be willing to change
- They may not be willing to change
Hindutva vs Academia: Why Scholars Built a Manual to Fight Harassment thequint.com/us-nri-news/hi…
The article ends with a quote from the man who heads COHNA and is a long-time, known harasser.
Note his bad-faith argument, that the field manual is silencing Hindus. This coming after quotes from multiple scholars who are Hindu about why they wrote this. Think about that.
Note his bad-faith argument, that the field manual is silencing Hindus. This coming after quotes from multiple scholars who are Hindu about why they wrote this. Think about that.
We cover this in the field manual, including how Hindutva ideologues often target Hindus and how they often make bad-faith bias claims. Such activities hurt Hindus, South Asian Americans, and us all. hindutvaharassmentfieldmanual.org/badfaith
#Caste a thread.
Long back, when I had just passed my 10th exam with decent marks, a distant relative who was an office bearer for "karhade brahmin sanghatana", or some such organization representing my born caste, visited our house to hand me a "prize"
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Long back, when I had just passed my 10th exam with decent marks, a distant relative who was an office bearer for "karhade brahmin sanghatana", or some such organization representing my born caste, visited our house to hand me a "prize"
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Incidentally, we were invited to attend a program to felicitate "bright" students from the community but hadn't turned up, so he had come home to deliver my cash prize. "I don't accept prizes that are caste-based", I said. He tried to convince me, but I was adamant.
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Give that money away to some deserving candidate from the (so-called) lower castes, I told him. Given my background, this isn't even an achievement, I told him.
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#FOE Japan is a free democracy, India is a partly free democracy: Compare the ratio of critical/unfavorable articles, to favorable articles, in the top 3 news sources in Japan & India respectively, to find which press is freer! #SciMe 1st data, 2nd Analysis, 3rd Policy/views!🧐🤔
3/demo #Majoritarianism & freedom: Compare treatment of minorities in USA(non-christian), Japan(Korean etc) & India (Muslims): In particular plot over 70yrs th % of minority pop on same graph & compare decadal changes[summarizes it's discrimination(in cntry) & opportunities(ROW)]
Some thoughts/excerpts on "I could not be #Hindu" by a former #RSS sevak/worker Bhanwar Meghwanshi, a #Dalit.
The book is really worth reading, just like #Ambedkar's "Annihilation of #Caste".
It is a unique 'testimony' to the RSS's #casteism.
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1/23
The book is really worth reading, just like #Ambedkar's "Annihilation of #Caste".
It is a unique 'testimony' to the RSS's #casteism.
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1/23
Bhanwar has realised, in the end, that establishment of #RSS was also a partly reaction to the rise of #Dalit politics under the aegis of #Ambedkar whose first anti-caste mobilisations (including the Mahad satyagraha and temple entry movements).
2/23
2/23
In fact, Deendayal Upadhyaya defended '#casteism' even more explicitly, in Integral Humanism, a text that is still considered as its ideological charter by the RSS and BJP and other RW fringe groups.
Bhanwar experienced this as well.
3/23
Bhanwar experienced this as well.
3/23
As an Indian Xtian, Will you go to HEAVEN? The Bible DENIES you a seat in Heaven! As a Gentile(non-Jew) u have a chance of attaining Moksha by Dharmic Sadhana than follow the Bibl that segregates 12 CASTES for Salvation! Learn from @mayaram0521 our in-house Bible Expert!#Casteism
@mayaram0521 Here Jesus is seen specifically instructing his disciples to only go to the tribes (castes) of the Jews to preach his teachings. The Out-caste Jews or Samaritans and others (Gentiles = Indians) are not included to receive his teachings. #Casteism in Xtianity.
While several Bible scholars 've tried intellectual gymnastics to get around the words of John in Rev. 7, The Bibl still shines with clarity on how it'll only accept 144K MALE JEWS of 12 Tribes(Castes)in Heaven. The rest(incl. India's Xtians) r condemned for eternity! #Casteism
#PhysicalDistancing, but #SocialSolidarity - a thread on our call today on Caste, Gender, Communal identity and Covid-19 crisis in #India👇 #IndiaFightsCoronavirus 1/n
Sumi Das, transgender activist from Cooch Behar, West Bengal, asks how can trans folk in villages #stayhomestaysafe, when they don’t have food on their plate? 2/n
Sumi - Trans and gender diverse communities outside metro cities already marginalized - earn from begging, dancing in weddings, sex work - don’t have documents or ration card, nor bank accounts to receive govt relief 3/n
If your DISSENT curbs my HUMAN RIGHTS, I will call it INSANE.
If dissent means being tolerant of #casteism and discrimination, it's more than insane. It's hateful & denies us basic right to be equal.
We don't need to applaud the marginalization of Dr Ambedkar, coz #casteists were scared of the truth. If U support the movement, CONDEMN it!
In past 10 hrs, besides being trolled, I've been searched on wiki, Facebk (screenshots of my personal acc floated), Instagram & past tweets
A multi directional "HATE ATTACK" has been kind of triggered based on ONE Tweet, where I have linked caste behind violence of #Dalitkids
Regardless of the argument that single tweet has been floated to prove I don't know what I am talking about & that I am dumb.
#Castesplainers who still don't get it, here's a breakdown on why #dalitkids #beating & #stripping was driven by caste. 1. Kids were #dalit.
2. Yes, ANY crime against #Dalits is driven by caste hatred. Don't believe? Read history or even the news.
3. WHO the mob was is irrelevant, yes, even if there were FOUR #Dalits arrested. Because those kids were already ostracized & living outside
Regardless of whether the kids were beaten by #Dalits or non-Dalits, they were beaten FOR BEING #Dalit. That's what makes their caste imp.
So this tweet is making all trolls rabid. A. It's in a context. The pretext of beating & humiliating them was theft. That's a fact.
I started by acknowledging that the kids were accused of that crime. But their form of humiliation aligns to a known pattern of caste hatred
Damn #Rajatshan! You make me proud. Last week, #Delta. Now three #Dalit boys stripped & brutally beaten by a mob.
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Why do we hate #Dalit children? Why do we want to break them before they can build themselves? So they don't mistake themselves as equal!
That's why teachers in schools & universities systemically target #Dalit children. How dare they think they could be confident?!
People bring up poor upper castes as an argument against #reservation coz for them #casteism is NOT A BIG DEAL. Who cares bout human rights?
They consider #untouchablity and #casteism (still existing) so casual that it doesn't bother/matter to them at all. #reservation
Most are stubbornly blind to the horrors of #casteism & are so ignorant to it, that they don't consider it grave/violation of humanity.
