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The first time I read about a lynching in my lifetime was in 2002. On Oct 17, 2002, 5 Dalits were lynched to death in Jhajjar. At that time I didn't understand why the term was used in big, black, bold letters in the newspapers. What was a lynching? #StopLynchings
Last year while writing this piece I wrote "Lynchings are public, extrajudicial executions"
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This is a widely accepted definition of a lynching. However, moving beyond definitions, a lynching is something that tears the fabric of society producing historical trauma for the victim group involved.
Lynchings destroy the notion of community. Each act of violence renders the subsequent act of violence inevitable&more heinous. We should be worried about these events, & not relegate them to ‘apolitical’ acts of disciplinary violence aimed at ‘alleged criminals’. #StopLynchings
Acts of collective public violence do not occur in isolation. These seemingly independent events are linked to broader social, economic, and political forces. #StopLynchings
Framing these acts as “disciplinary violence” against an “errant” individual out of “righteous anger” or “anxiety” does great harm and disservice to understanding and preventing what is now an everyday enactment of grotesque violence. #StopLynchings
