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20 Mar

@Rutgers_Newark

Atmosphere on @Rutgers_Newark campus is rapidly deteriorating. @audreytruschke posted a letter that literally accuses @YuvaNortheast @HinduStudentsC of being Nazis.

Students report an increasingly hostile environment.

Truschke's response? More hostility. @AnnaBranchPhD 1/

Students complain about Truschke depicting a Hindu God as a "misogynistic pig" & teaching that Hindu texts promote rape culture. Instead of apologizing, Truschke digs in & posts a letter signed by mostly non-Hindu groups & some extremist groups, like separatist Stand with Kashmir

Students are afraid.

Truschke dissembles with Kashmir? Dalit politics? A letter that erases their concerns and grievances & accuses them of championing Nazi ideology or Islamophobia?

This is dangerous. 3/

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Suhag A. Shukla

@SuhagAShukla

6 Mar

@HinduAmerican

Check out this typical inquiry to @HinduAmerican from a South Asian journalist. Let's count the ways this flouts the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.

-Anonymous email id.
-No last name.
-No mention of which outlet she is writing for.
-No contact number
1/

Asks leading/inflammatory questions without identifying sources.

"Hey, people say you whitewash caste, what's your take?"

I mean how do you respond to that when fighting against discrimination based on caste is literally in our founding documents? hinduamerican.org/issues/

2/

@HinduAmerican

Falsely frames @HinduAmerican's defense against #Hinduphobic antics by activists as anti-Dalit.

Um, failure to complete background research and then confront your interviewee with a false allegation is another Society of Professional Journalists ethical no-no.

3/

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Suhag A. Shukla

@SuhagAShukla

2 Mar

@HinduAmerican

Seems @HinduAmerican's intervention in the @CalDFEH vs. @Cisco lawsuit sparked an amicus brief from South Asian activists/academics. And typically, @thecaravanindia features that brief in a piece attacking HAF, without presenting the crux of our legal argument.

So allow me 1/n

Caravan argues that HAF's motion asserts that the US Constitution's religious freedom means Hindus should be allowed to discriminate.

Why? Because caste discrimination is intrinsic to Hinduism.

Yes, Caravan publishes the ludicrous smear that we want to allow discrimination.

@thecaravanindia

If @thecaravanindia cared about what @HinduAmerican actually argues, it's here: hinduamerican.org/california-cis…

@CalDFEH's case is unconstitutional & promotes racist stereotypes. State doesn't solve a problem by creating a new one-solution to discrimination is not more discrimination.

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Suhag A. Shukla

@SuhagAShukla

28 Jan

https://twitter.com/harpersbazaarus/status/1354425478992551937

This article exemplifies how colonial mentality -- the internalization of attitudes of cultural inferiority by previously colonized people -- is multigenerational. Their descendants' may never have been colonized physically, but their minds remain shackled.1/9

https://twitter.com/harpersbazaarus/status/1354425478992551937

@ChinmayaMission

And in spite of a father's, a "hairy-chested" uncle's, or respected organizations like @ChinmayaMission's best efforts, racist, colonial tropes about Hindus and Hinduism rooted in European ideas of white and Christian supremacy persist, and in this case, prove insurmountable.2/9

@mathangiwrites

What's fascinating (and frustrating) is how @mathangiwrites and many like her freely borrow the language of decolonizing used by other post-colonized peoples yet remain completely unaware of the colonial paradigms through which they view and demonize their own tribe. 3/9

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Suhag A. Shukla

@SuhagAShukla

27 Jan

Two weeks apart in two democracies.

Two monuments to democracy breached.

Two capital city’s police attacked.

This is what fake news, conspiracy theories and religious radicalization wrought.

This is hard for Indian Americans. The parallels are uncanny and unignorable.1/

Both protests were religionized. Both were framed as religious revolutions against manufactured injustice.

One incited by a rejection of an election. The other incited by rejection of #FarmLaws2020 that were passed by a democratic parliament & that economists say are needed.2/

I want to believe these protests are not religiously motivated-that they are folks misled by #fakenews and demagoguery.

But why are some diasporic advocates continuing to suffuse the protests with religious imagery or Khalistan, when most Sikhs globally reject separatism? 3/

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Suhag A. Shukla

@SuhagAShukla

23 Jan

@POTUS

Hasn't been a week, but @POTUS has a diplomatic headache.

A #FakeNews story that 2 Hindu Americans holding senior roles in the Biden campaign are not being given jobs in the Administration because of ties to "RSS/BJP" is causing outrage. How did this happen? Let's unpack: 1/

First, the Indian American Muslim Council teamed w/ a few internet handles to write a hypocritical open letter demanding those 2 Hindus not be given prominent roles. Why hypocritical? No mention at all of a nominee with ties to the shadowy separatist Stand With Kashmir front. 2/

Not to mention that the claim is false & horribly mean-spirited. The 2 Hindu Americans being targeted have never had ties to Indian politics. The claim is that their fathers were friends with some Indian leaders--but the father of one of those targeted passed away years ago. 3/

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