Thread by @BurntOutCase

My friend Mahesh actually informs me that the @dalitdiva handle below is an actual co-founder of that anti-Hindu hate group that goes by the name of @EqualityLabs .

https://twitter.com/BurntOutCase/status/1465462535549820930

So the co-founder of this well-known American Dalit Activist grifter group can't even get basics of caste affiliation right for what is a fairly well known mercantile caste in India and just goes around saying "Brahmin this Brahmin that" like a learned Pavlovian reflex.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is Dalit Diva:
racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/fellow/thenmoz…

It is however not surprising that she knows nothing about Indian castes (even well known ones) because she is a second generation Indian American who attended UC-Berkeley for undergrad. Caste played no role in her life here and not surprisingly she lacks basic knowledge ....

... other than tagging random Indian Americans as "Brahmin" or the preferred catch-all for Equality Labs "Upper Caste"

I read her article in the Indian Edition of Elle titled "What it means to be an Untouchable in 2017" and it set off several alarm bells. She is almost certainly an outright fraud and grifter
elle.in/article/still-…

She claims that when she "came out" as Dalit at UC Berkeley when she made a documentary as part of her undergrad thesis that "friends stopped talking to us", "I had plates and utensils switched on me", "Indian professors ... blacklisted my work", that she

"stopped getting invited to South Asian events". Anyone with even the most passing familiarity with Indian American scene especially the "South Asian" scene in academia would recognize each of the above claims as that of a bullshit artist.

Notice the lack of specificity of these claims. Details are lacking as are names. There is no way to fact check them at all. That is good because they are almost certainly figments of her grifter imagination.

If anything an admission of being a Dalit is likely to lead to sympathy from other Indian Americans, not shunning. The plate and utensils trope is so strong because of its roots in old India, but to suggest it operates in the US is just so bogus ... how would she even know ....

... that the plates and utensils she got at a friend or acquaintance had been "switched out"? The smart thing for a budding casteist trying to enforce untouchability in America would be simply not to interact with her at all.

And if they did interact with her but could not bear to have her eating with plates and utensils they might use, then the smart thing to do would be to have one matching set of plates and utensils stored somewhere and whipped out just when Dalit Diva visits.

All of this stuff is just getting into surreal fever dream territory here but obviously the grift is too good to factcheck. I mean the part where she claims she was blackballed by Indian Profs and South Asian events is hilarious.

She would be hailed as a Dalit Queen laying down truth bombs because most Indian American academics in Liberal Arts actually share her simplistic stereotypes about Caste in India perhaps to carry on their own grift in their academic niche.

And as I said in my original thread the goal is to show adjacency to BiPOCs, and sure enough she waxes poetic about how the only people who really understood her were African American women (not even the men)

To illustrate how this grift can be a career go on LinkedIn and you can find lots of White women (mostly women, some White men) lauding her for various Diversity, Equity & Inclusion events under the umbrella of "Caste Equity in Tech". Google Cloud execs appear to the ones ...

... plugging her seminars the most, but it also includes the American Bar Association and the MIT Open Documentary Lab.

I would encourage all Indian Americans to push back hard when their employers announce such events. You and I know that these people are wearing an empty suit but the hapless and clueless DEI mafia doesn't. Provide examples such as their tweets about the Twitter CEO ...

... to show that the Dalit Activist Grifters in America are not wearing any clothes. If you steer clear of confronting these charlatans then just remember that your position and that of your children in American society is being undermined without any Casus Belli whatsoever.