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Dr. Sylvia Karpagam

3 Nov, 10 tweets, 1 min read

Discrimination is…
When you (and people who share your identity) exclude others (who don’t share the same identity) from academic and social spaces.

Discrimination is….
When you and your family don’t drink or eat from the glasses/plates that you give to certain people who work for you or visit your home

Discrimination is….
When you target someone’s livelihood or refuse to buy things from them ONLY because they have a different identity

Discrimination is…
When you (and people who share your identity) mock/humiliate/abuse/harass someone because they have a different identity and then you also justify it

Discrimination is……..
When you gloat at someone’s misfortune, only because they don’t share your identity

Discrimination is…
When you or someone from your community use phone calls/references/personal contacts of people from your own community, to get seats/positions/jobs (headed by your own community) instead of having the personal integrity to refuse those undue advantages

Discrimination is…..
When you abuse someone purely because you know they cannot retaliate

Discrimination is…
Knowing you are in love with someone but refusing to be with them because they don’t share your identity

Discrimination is..
When you (your child) sits at the table, and someone else (someone elses child) sits on the floor

Discrimination is....
When you can't see any dirt but call someone dirty

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Diet to lose weight/control sugars

- Increase ghee/butter/lard
- Stop jaggery/sugar as much as possible
- Reduce carbohydrates from rice, ragi, jowar, wheat (including all millets)
- Increase consumption of red meats/poultry (with skin), fish, eggs, milk/dairy (full fat) (1)

- Increase consumption of vegetables/sprouts
- Not more than one fruit a day
- Avoid tea/coffee/milk one hour before and after food
- Have lime juice with food and also at other times
- Eat when hungry. Try to give longer fasting gaps between meals (Avoid snacks) (2)

- Eggs two a day (at least 4-5 times a week)
- Cut down to stop safflower/sunflower/bran oil etc. Use olive oil only for salads, not in high flame/high temperature cooking. Use coconunt oil/ butter/ ghee/lard for cooking.

This is not a replacement for medical treatment (3)

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Privilege is when you can love someone without being beheaded for it

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Or maybe this?? 👇👇

So most of these people in northern states dont even expose mothers or carers to mass media!!! On the other hand, southern states look GREEEEEEENNNN
(no its not due to envy)

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