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Sankrant Sanu सानु @sankrant
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Abrahamic theology exists in binaries—god and Satan, momin and kaffir. Binaries manifest in its secularization—proletariat and bourgeois, left and right and so on. Feminism that emerges from that is also a binary—feminism vs patriarchy and so on. 1/
The Indic darshan chooses to harmonize. Brahman has no dual. All is. A Western lens like “Brahminical patriarchy” tries to carve out a dual where none exist in the darshan. It is like breaking apart a yin-yang symbol into “yang patriarchy.” It creates nonsense. 2/
So Indian academia (which is an extension of the Western gaze) largely produces nonsense about India.
It seeks to import the binaries into India and replicate the wars and conflict of that society e.g. in “feminism.”
This “social science” does not and cannot “solve” anything 3/
Its only utility is in virtue signaling. Not being a scientific theory, the social “science” dogma of “Brahminical patriarchy” creates pseudo-explanations. You can stick the label to anything and be self-satisfied as having “explained” it. No counter evidence could refute. 4/
Any counter would be shouted down using virtue signaling—as “upholding” or “defending” “Brahminical patriarchy. ”

It’s an argument that can’t be won, because it’s not science, only slogans. These slogans create caste-class-gender wars, mirroring the binary conflicts of the West.
The application of binaries creates the “other” as Satanic or “evil.” No reconciliation is possible with “evil”, it must be annihilated.
For Hitler, Jews were the other, for Stalin, class enemies, for ISIS, Yazidis.

“Smash Brahminical patriarchy” follows exactly in that mold.
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