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2 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
CSI - Thoothukudi Nazareth Diocese has 100 odd parishes and 2 lakh parishioners in one district of TN. They run 10 colleges, 19 High Schools, 1 Teacher's Training Institute, 6 High Schools, 5 schools for special children, 5 hospitals. All educational institutions get Govt aid /1
All 100 odd parishes will have Churches that can solemnize marriages. They also have halls and catering for wedding functions, betrothals, baptisms. A lay secretary is elected by parishioners. Naturally, this is tightly contested. Among the reasons given by the current /2
Lay Secretary's rivals is that he has married 'out of caste' to a Roman Catholic. They are also demanding that families whose members have married people from other religions without converting them must be disqualified from the vote as they are no longer really parish /3
members. /END

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This will play out exactly the way Aryan Vandheris want it to.
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Excellent social experiment by Vignesh. Proces how Dravidam flies under the radar by using language of social justice.
- 3% is dog whistle/code for Brahmins, specifically Tamil Brahmins
- The speaker belongs to a community that owns a huge part of capital and businesses
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Chellam Sir is an exemplar of why we, as a nation, are such under-achievers. He's the Vidhayak Chacha of 'Deus Ex Machina' plot devices. Everytime the writers have absolutely no clue on taking the plot forward, he just steps in. The fact that we make a big deal of him also /1
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The pathology behind the responses of 'கதறு.. கதறு..' when a patent lie is sought to be refuted. Image
In the case of anti-Semitism in Christiandom, it was hate speech for a century or so --> legal second citizen status for 2-3 centuries--> pogroms starting from Reconquista --> Final Solution. What started as 'just speech' and 'justified grievances' escalated over time into
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Short illustration of how Dravidam works.
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If you point out that Appar was actually a Vellala, you will get only radio silence.
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