Thread by @gauravsabnis

Dude chooses Swarajya, of all outlets, as the source for defending himself. Still needs that sanghi validation, even when denouncing sanghis.

https://twitter.com/AatishTaseer/status/1452969360021196811

BTW, the article @AatishTaseer passionately posts (which I read and scoffed at years ago) as a "mea culpa" is still less about calling out sanghism for the straightforward fascism it is. Blames lack of some mythical "real education". I've rarely read a lazier writer in the Times.

"perhaps the cynics are right" and "India will have to make do with the modi they have" are not the anti-Modi statements you think they are, Aatish. You're still trying to blame everyone but yourself and the fascists.

P.S. Swarajya is an outlet that will call the smallest deviation from sanghi orthodoxy as "anti-national" so their calling your piece a mea culpa so does not make it a mea culpa. All it shows, @AatishTaseer that you are not a Swarajya darling currently.

If you read that whole @AatishTaseer article about not liking modi, it is still blaming the society and the country and everyone else. Ignoring the fact that the RSS has been an explicitly Nazi-loving Muslim-hating entity since the 1920s. A fact well known in 2014.

This is Tavleen. These folks are more about whining and being passive aggressive about how someone was too harsh on them rather than caring about actual fascism.

This is why Tavleen, Aatish treated Modi as some savior. And are upset when those of us who didn't, call them out.

Here's a simple fact, @AatishTaseer. I have hated Modi from the time he was a random "Star News" talking head in the late 90s. When he appeared on the Big Fight with @vikramchandra right after 9/11 & said some rabidly anti-Muslim things. Then Gujarat 2002.

All known in 2014.

So when I see you, @AatishTaseer, a dude with a pakistani father who was stanning Modi in 2014 when I was like "WTF India? Modi? Really? Modi?"

Yup, I'm gonna keep calling you out. You can ignore my tweets. But I'm gonna make these tweets. Hoping that you will eventually get it.

You think your mea culpa pieces were enough, @AatishTaseer. I don't think so. I don't think you still fully get the point about how toxic sanghism is. You're still trying to frame it in some foreign equivocal way.

This is not a purity test. But you definitely have to do more.

Basically, I have been anti modi anti Trump since before the turn of the century & I will very much aggressively call out @AatishTaseer type centrist "influencers" who weren't anti modi enough in 2014.

I'm still upset about 2014. Deal with it, you fascism enablers!

If you are someone who hated the idea of voting for Modi in 2014, you are my people.

I don't have a super rich connected mother or father or a trust fund like @AatishTaseer did so I have to go do my job and teach classes.

But yeah, this is a hill I'm willing to die on.

That Aatish is not sanghi but disturbingly sanghi-adjacent in all his opinions.

Even in 2021, @AatishTaseer proudly posts a link to a piece that ends like this.

Yuck, right?

Aatish, much like Tavleen is trying to gaslight us into how awesome Modi is.

There's apparently a lot of money in supporting Modi on US social media.

Basically @AatishTaseer keeps projecting this sense that how dare we question his support for Modi in 2014

I hope you make enough money to have a good life, @AatishTaseer. Cos it sure seems like your positions are dictated by considerations like that.

And of course, this from Tavleen years ago.

Neither @tavleen_singh nor @AatishTaseer have ever come out full throated in opposition to modi and sanghism.
Tavleen will blame white people for sanghism.

Aatish will use rank sophistry to make sure every criticism of modi will also equivocate and blame "the left".

"Indians will have to make do with the Modi they have"

- @AatishTaseer response to my not liking modi

I'm still amazed that @AatishTaseer thinks tweeting this article is proof of his not loving Modi, when the whole piece is about how he wanted a better Modi. No mention of rabid anti Muslim bigotry, etc.

Aatish says it is all the fault of "limited reading and education".

FYI, @AatishTaseer, Goebbels was a bona fide PhD.