Hindutva right-wing aficionados abroad take out the knives against me once again, this time angered over my 5-day hunger-strike against @jack’s donation to #RSS affiliate Sewa International.
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It’s always a good sign that I touched a nerve.
Ramesh Rao rehashes, in a desperate attempt to defame me, old and largely invented allegations.
The best part is where Rao claims I “got as [much] mileage on his supposed five-day hunger strike as a Humvee in an Iraqi desert” while also claiming that my strike “goes to show the backing he has from the well-educated, sophisticated, and skilled public relations strategists.”
Rao’s fact-checking also exposes his credibility. He claims that I’ve claimed to have been raised a “fundamentalist Baptist.” Raised a fundamentalist, yes, I’ve acknowledged and rejected it. A Baptist? The furthest thing from it.
Maybe Rao hoped “Baptist” would be the key hot-button trigger word?
He tries to lay everything on me from vandalizing a Gandhi statue to supporting Khalistan (all of which he knows I’ve rejected).
His crucial evidence is apparently that I sometimes don’t shave, thus my mustache must be “there to remind us how close the connection is to the background and training he has had as a fundamentalist Baptist ready to convert the heathen to his ways of the Nazi youth.”
Thank you, Rao, for an affirmation that my work annoys you enough to string together a screed claiming it is both ingenious and irrelevant.
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