Caste system, Hindusim, and public hygiene. A 🧵

Large piles of garbage lying everywhere, the terrible condition of public toilets, and open defection are some of the hallmarks of Indian cities and semi-urban towns. Indians have a terrible attitude toward public hygiene 1/ & the reason is the way the caste system influences people's behaviour. Research by Michael Geruso & Dean Spears shows that Muslims have a lower infant mortality rate compared to Hindus as the latter have a low rate of latrine use due to differences in "religious beliefs". 2/

Umar Khalid's role in Delhi Riots is well documented.

A thread exposing him and what role he played during the violence 👇

106 out of 121 newsroom leadership positions are occupied by Brahmin-Savarnas. At entry-level, mid-senior level jobs also you will find only Brahmin-Savarnas. The so-called alternative, independent media ventures like Scroll, Wire, the Print, Newslaundry, Quint 1/6 News Minute, Caravan etc are also run by Savarnas. Publishing houses like Penguin, Rupa, HarperCollins, Roli, Juggernaut, Aleph have mostly Brahmin-Savarnas as their editors. Facebook India and Twitter India's bias against SC/ST/OBC pages, accounts and their discourse is well 2/6

Do not trust or make heroes out of ppl resigning from Indian "Radio Rwanda" Republic TV. No sane person or anyone who had an iota of idea about Arnab, Rajeev Chandrasekhar and the ideology they represent would have joined that genocide-enabler circus in the first place 1/6 The ppl who R resigning now are claiming to have found their moral compass due to the coverage they were FORCED to do during SSR-Rhea controversy. Remember, Republic Tv was founded in 2017 & has done much worse things since its inception. From day one Arnab and the channel 2/6

If #Brahmins are proud of their past, then own up to this 👉 "French anthropologist Jean-Claude Galey encountered in a region of eastern Himalayas the low-ranking castes in a situation of permanent debt dependency....It was common practice, Galey explains, for high-caste 1/5 moneylenders to demand one of the borrower's daughters as security. Often, when a poor man had to borrow money for his daughter's marriage, the security would be the bride herself. She would be expected to report to the lender's household after her wedding night, 2/5

Priyanka Chopra is an epitome of opportunism and cowardice. In her recent Insta post, she appeals people to end race war in US and educate themselves on race issue. She says no one deserves to die because of their skin color. She stands in support of George Floyd's family. 1/5 The last time I checked Priyanka still holds Indian Passport. What makes her comment on the African-American struggle but not on Bahujan movement? Where does the empathy and support of Priyanka and US migrated Savarnas go when it comes Bahujan resistance movement? 2/5

Savarna-Brahmin 'merit', their mediocrity and plagiarism. Thread.

Y'day, Indian Express withdrew researcher & former member of PM’s Economic Advisory Council Shamika Ravi's piece after allegations of plagiarism. Shamika copied calculations from Karthik Muralidharan's work 1/6 She also lifted sentences verbatim from Paul Romer's piece. Ironically, Shamika doesn't shy away from calling herself India's most trusted "COVID calculator". A few days ago Marathi daily Loksatta's Brahmin editor Girish Kuber was caught red-handed for plagiarising verbatim 2/6

Proud Gaud Saraswat Brahmin journo Rajdeep Sardesai applauds the so-called social work of RSS during lockdown. GSB Sardesai's wife Savarna journo Sagrika Ghose cheers up RSS for its 'work'. Now, Savarna snake Barkha Dutt does some PR work for RSS in Mumbai. 1/4 These leeches do understand the fact that Brahmin supremacist org RSS-led gov is the one that turned a healthcare crisis into a humanitarian crisis and now it's volunteers are doing nautanki for publicity. But as Dr Ambedkar said, these people are two sides of the same coin 2/4

Marathi daily Loksatta's Brahmin editor Girish Kuber has been caught red-handed for plagiarising verbatim from scholar Andrew Lilico's blog. This is not, however, the first time that Kuber has plagiarized. (1/6) In the past, Kuber stole from Govind Talwalkar's article on Charles Dickens published in Saadhana Journal. If you are a regular reader of Marathi newspapers especially Sunday supplements, you would know that Kuber is not the only journo/ writer who routinely plagiarises. (2/6)

It has been almost a week since Facebook disbarred our page from posting anything. RMBT has over 28,000 followers on Facebook and it is one of the most popular anti-caste spaces on social media. The most enraging part about Facebook's discriminatory attitude against (1/4) our page is the opaqueness in its policy. Facebook India's content monitoring office is not even telling us why the page is not allowed to post. (2/4)

The Buddha Talks to a Brahmin Supremacist

"Master Gotama, the brahmins say, ‘Brahmins are the superior caste; any other caste is inferior. Only brahmins are the fair caste; any other caste is dark. Only brahmins are pure, not non-brahmins. (1/6) Only brahmins are the sons and offspring of Brahma: born of his mouth, born of Brahma, created by Brahma, heirs of Brahma.’ What does Master Gotama have to say with regard to that? (2/6)

How can you ignore the caste composition of the men who were part of "Bois locker room" chat group on Instagram. The group chats are full of sexual abuse, rape threats, rape planning, verbal abuse, cyberstalking. Look at some of the last names of the men in the group - (1/5) Mehta, Chakrabarty, Tyal, Mishra, Kapoor, Tahiliani, Arora, Sur, Roy, Chaudhary, Singh, Vasisht, Dyol, Sharma, Rijhwani. Anyone with basic understanding of sociology would not blame behavior of these men on just 'toxic environment'. (2/5)

End birth based reservation

Birth based reservation has done great harm to Brahmins. They are crutches (baisakhi) which Brahmins have been given by Dharmshastras. Brahmins will never be able to walk erect until and unless they throw away these crutches. (1/4) Brahmins do get benefitted from this crutches, but even after enjoying birth based reservation for thousands of years they haven't produced Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Socrates, Sigmund Freud, Einstein, Newton, Marie Curie, Hawking, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, (2/4)