#Breaking: @Penn’s faculty are sharing info of a anti-Indian conference that will discuss how “Indian Brahmins created casteist and Islamophobic barriers against Bengali Muslims.”
This singling out of Indian Hindus is identical to the rhetoric that led to the 1971 genocide.
This is the downstream effect of the surge in casteist activism that @cmkshama ignited in @SeattleCouncil & is promoted by @penn faculty—some who also co-sponsored #DGH.
Pakistani news outlets carry identical slurs against "upper caste Hindus" justifying the 1971 Hindu genocide
This increase in IDing Hindus by assigning "caste" can only target students @penn marked as "upper caste." The fact that actual professors @penn are disseminating hateful material like this under the guise of "academic freedom" unveils an intimidatory climate on campus.
Yes, @HinduAmerican will notify @EDcivilrights about @penn faculty promoting this event featuring anti-Indian rhetoric, as our Title VI complaint with the agency about @penn faculty's record of engaging in anti-Hindu activism is ongoing. inquirer.com/news/hindu-fou…
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Oh dear. Seems Equality Labs, Truschke, separatist outfits & others are pretty upset about the @tdsb vote yesterday punting the “caste” resolution to @OntHumanRights. And they’re taking it out on @HinduAmerican.
What really happened with the resolution? Let’s take a look🧵
Here’s the before & what was actually passed. What’s missing?
-no mention of South Asia
-no “rise” in caste disc.
-no forming of a committee of self-declared “oppressed” castes
-no curriculum development on caste
All gone. Instead, caste is just defined in nebulous, false terms
We trust @OntHumanRights to recognize that if “caste” as @tdsb says is last name or family occupation, it’s already covered under ancestry. If it’s area of origin, it’s covered under “place of origin.” If it’s diet or self-ID—well in Canada people may eat or identify as they wish
#Leaked: an internal “FAQ” that Kshama Sawant is sharing with her @SeattleCouncil colleagues defending her unlawful caste proposal targeting South Asians is egregiously biased & hateful.
As Sawant admits, Seattle policy already bans discrimination based on national origin - ancestry too. What she doesn’t say is that her proposal violates the very policies that she seeks to amend by discriminating against a minority on the basis of their national origin & ancestry
Targeting just South Asians based on a biased Equality Labs survey that the credible Carnegie Endowment panned is not just wrong, it’s unethical.
Sawant falls back on this flawed “survey” as she lacks facts and evidence.
This is such an important thread from an Indian origin scholar/activist in the US because it illustrates such profound confusion/myopia about caste, its racist conflations & colonial implementation.
These scholars are the ones pushing DEI folks into really bad "caste" policy.🧵
So @Sonjamthomas_ starts by claiming that caste is "systemic" & not an "administrative" construct. She insists that British colonialists just "named it" as it had been around for "CENTURIES" (all caps!). And oh btw, she's an "expert" & a "scholar" she reminds us, so be impressed.
And to ice it, our scholar ends by claiming that it wasn't the British, but Indians themselves who pushed "racialized conceptions" of themselves to justify caste status/privileges.
Citation? Well, she offers us her own study of presumably her own Syrian Christian community.
.@davidfrawleyved's poignant translation of Shukla Yajur Veda 36.12–15, 17–18 reminds me of why I'm so grateful to be an inheritor of this ancient, timeless wisdom 🕉️amongst so many other things.
"May the Goddess Waters be auspicious for us to drink...
1/5
May they flow, they flow with blessings upon us
May the Earth be pleasant and free of thorns as
our place of rest
May She grant us a wide peace
May the Divine Waters which grant us blessings
May they sustain our vigor and energy,
and for a great vision of delight...
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May we partake of that which is their most auspicious essence, as from loving mothers.
May the Heaven grant us peace, and the Atmosphere
May the Earth grant us peace, and the Waters
May the plants and the great forest trees give us
their peace...
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The gotcha tweets poking fun at Rishi Sunak's origin story being tied to Africa or Pakistan or the UK may be amusing, but are also meaningless.
They completely elide that what most Hindus appreciate in Sunak is a visibly Hindu man whose religiosity does not seem performative. 🧵
When Sunak sports a kalawa on his wrist, lights diya in front of the home, bows deeply to a sannyasin, performs a gau pooja, speaks of his Hindu identity, it feels natural, genuine. Sunak is comfortable in his own skin. This resonates with many 2nd/3rd gen Hindus in the diaspora
because Hinduism for subsequent generations of Hindus in the diaspora is rooted in India but India is incidental to our Hinduism. Our sacred geography is in India, but there are a plethora of meaningful sacred spaces created where we have lived.
I bet the Islamist & radical fringe groups that paid 6-figures for that @nytimes ad are kicking themselves.
If only they knew the NYT was going to horrifically gaslight Hindus the next day for free.
Getting the cause of riots wrong to using a discredited source-it’s all there.
A side by side comparison with the @BBCNews is telling, and one can’t help but wonder what drives the @nytimes reporting.
Why would @meganspecia platform Majid Freeman whose disinformation was reported as the proximate cause of the troubles? @BBCNews was clear on that. Compare👇🏼
And while I’m not surprised @nyt targets Hindus & their ostensible dastardly fealty to “Hindutva,” @meganspecia couldn’t produce a shred of evidence that Indian politics or any Hindutva “gang’ was behind violence. Nothing. Again, at least @BBCNews was honest about it. Compare: