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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Picketty didnt find any other example of "educated elite" anywhere else, but only among "Brahmins"- hushing up the fact that many born-Brahmins are not college educated "elite" - like Jyoti Singh Pandey's dad. He wont provide data in support of his label.
wsj.com/articles/cance…
Picketty's gratuitous labeling of a social category propagandized as symbolic of the hated Hindu - is expected as he is very "fact-based" in his comparative studies of inequality - for Europe& English speaking countries: therefore an expert on all societies& "Brahmins" of India.
It is also expected that Zaid chooses to pick on the label "Brahmin bailout", as he doesnt see "educated elite" in hereditary privileged positions among Sufi lineages or the Ayatollahs, and he is safe in that he being a Muslim, can't be accused of phobia towards other faiths.
Picketty's UK Labour Party/French Socialist Party campaigns actually support his contentions, but not through inapt labeling - that pseudo-Left pretends dislike for "Soviets", favours "market/capitalism", and perpetuates in positions of ideological hegemony under state patronage.

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1 Dec
Reading 19th-early-20th c Brit/Anglo-Indian vicious ethnic vilification of specific Indian communities they saw as challenging them - whether in education or enterprise - reads uncannily near word by word match to current online vilification of the same, from within Indians.
Under Brit rule, the judiciary, civil admin, military and the press collaborated to preserve the image of British as a "ruling race" and maintained an insidious determined "omerta", and their violence towards Indians were driven by racial imaginations.
In studying the exact mechanism by which the Brit "squad" - 'scoundrel-quad' erased out of public discourse their own sadistic violence - we can begin to understand how a modern state's law/admin/police/press can similarly combine to whitewash the plight of subject majorities.
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1 Dec
Looking at my old notes on colonial roots of modern ethnic hate in India, found an interesting bit on Neville Chamberlain (not the infamous Brit PM)- an officer in Brit Army of India: he had a regular sporting event at regiment dinner - "beat the cook" carried out ceremoniously.
Ref is in Minto's letter to Morley, 28/5/1906: "(He) had memories of bad dinners in Afghanistan, and young Neville Chamberlain's commonplace request to Sir Fred. Roberts-'Please, Sir, can I beat the cook?' - a ceremony at once approved and summarily performed"
If I'm not wrong, its the same rascal Neville Chamberlain, who in 1900 was appointed Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) based in Dublin castle and continued the RIC's murderous/rapine in intel/subjugation ops on the Irish until Easter uprising.
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20 Nov
Mantri-ji didnt read his own wiki-ref: Dia de Muertos is a very bad exmple. Pre-Hispanic remembrance was in summer: current form in winter isnt due to any native "rigidification/petrification", but stamping out native form by violent colonial church imported Europ medieval form.
Pathbreaking "young" scholars can't be so slapstick: it will sound like they are shouldering the task of transcoding away the responsibility for corruption and replacement of native cultural forms by colonial and post-colonial colonial grip on reshaping of culture.
If there have been undesirable replacements in culture, its because the the source ideologies of such replacements have not been allowed to be criticized, their actual history covered up, their role whitewashed - while the "native" has been freely vilified.
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16 Nov
Here is the key underlying disconnect that's fueling this debate: she pushes the argument that there exists something called "core-religious" in Hindu religious practice, that is distinct from "social practice" & the "social" is inauthentic& doesn't represent "true" Hindu belief.
Since she implies she "knows" Sanskrit& she "knows" her Hindu texts, including the Vedas (knowing all 4 wd be a stupendous achievement), "mool" Ramayana/Mahabharata: I hv to assume she also knows that rituals differ slightly or substantially depending on the text, commentaries.
The first serious problem with her is separating out a "core-religious" which is authentic for all times, and the remnant being "social practice" which is inauthentic is that the criteria to separate will vary from one classical school to another - from one era to another.
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15 Nov
I dont think Trump's political and biz enemies realized how much he drew his strength directly from his common supporters and therefore establishment alone, even with support from both Rep& Dem parts of establishment, wd not be enough to finish off his politics.
Republican politics itself has been changed to a great extent, even if for the medium term. Trump will now be impossible to shake off unless ;literally bumped off. But taking the second option will ensure that a Trump-2 will rise with greater support.
For his party, it will be dangerous and definitely politically suicidal to try and push him out, if he wants to run in 2024. He can ensure Reps take a hit if they diss him without even having to call for the hit. His base will do it for him on their own.
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13 Nov
A wonderful glimpse into mindset of an Indian judge. The fact that he uses European proverbs without giving source context - which are all disparaging/sarcastic in the originals - shows the education was a carefully edited colonial version of European reality meant for vernae.
Coming from a judge, this is unacceptable. The values he quotes is against modern law (not sharia): as embodied in explicit ideas of war-crimes, civil-criminal laws that limit approaches to courtship or sexual unions. No, judge - not everything is fair in love, war and politics.
As far as I know the earliest known current form of judge's sentiment was in a18th c English novel "Relapse, or Myrtle Bank" as "''tho this was a confounded lie, my friend, all is fair in love and war' - note even in the original, the sense is there that this is "wrong/unethical"
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