Thread by @parthparihar

Imagine smearing fellow academics as BJP stooges, alleging xenophobically that a large subset of a U.S. religious minority are beholden to a foreign power, representing RW Indian trolls as your "critics" as a strawman to insulate yourself from scholarly criticism, ... (1/6)

https://twitter.com/dghconference/status/1430560018630316033

...ironically casting those who speak of Hinduphobia as insulating BJP from criticism, and denying that large-scale anti-Hindu violence (Kashmiri Pandits, Bengali Hindu genocide, etc.) has ever taken place in your handbook of horrors. (2/6)

And after creating this monoculture, after racketeering to the point where anyone who disagrees with you is ad hominem labeled "Hindutva" through intimidation and bad-faith circular logic... you claim to stand for "academic freedom" and "truth."

Sure, makes sense to me. 🤥 (3/6)

Was speaking to social science PhD scholars at elite Unis who-because of this prevailing culture in SAS- are reluctant to issue even solid methodological critiques for fear of "Hindutva" label. We must ask ourselves whether this is the culture we seek to foster in academia. (4/6)

Would 💕a world where open discussion & debate is norm, but space for that completely foreclosed. DGH organizers called anyone (esp. students) critical of conference's ethos "affiliated" with "desire to defend Hindutva" to American Kahaani.

It's all so hollow & gross. (5/6)

Listening to animus that enlivens @dghconference has made me so, so grateful for all the positive interactions I've had with @Princeton faculty, mentors, and co-authors. Diff is night and day.

Disagreements imp & should seek to build, not destroy. (6/6)

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