sandeep Posted August 23, 2020 Posted August 23, 2020 https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/white-mughals-whitewashing-whitesplaining-the-neo-colonial-manipulation-of-our-history-by-its-self-appointed-gatekeepers-8630481.html Quote Secondly, which is another reason why the tweet in question pussyfooted around the abduction, enslavement, grooming, and forced conversion aspect of the Mubarak Begum story, members of the literature festival circuit do not want to get cancelled by their own cabal for undermining the new narrative they have been pushing lately — reversing which community were enslaved and who were the slave-owners in medieval and early modern India, with an infantile “Muslims are now the Blacks of India” analogy. It does not matter that Megasthenes marvelled at the absence of the institution of slavery and the equality by law of all humans in ancient India, or that Sultanate and Mughal chronicles take pride in state-enforced slavery, or that slavery in early-modern India was first banned by Chhatrapati Shivaji, 150 years before the “civilised” British got around to it. Inconvenient truths should never be allowed to come in the way of the gatekeeping of opinion from the hoi polloi. The descendants of slave owners are the new “Blacks of India” because their self-styled leaders say “there is an atmosphere of fear”. By that logic, what does that make the KKK claiming that they “felt unsafe for their views and heritage” during the Obama presidency, or AfD voters in Germany, who claim that refugees and immigrants have created “an atmosphere of fear”? How about white Afrikaner farmers who claim to be “oppressed” and beg for foreign countries to protect and shelter them, because of their fear of having to share political and economic power with the non-whites they treated as an inferior race for centuries? They must all be such oppressed communities! According to our whitewashers and whitesplainers, does that make them the true “Blacks” of these countries, not the actual victims of civil war, ethnic cleansing, slavery, or apartheid? Gollum 1
Vilander Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) One problem is current socio economic realities. Either opressed by others or ones own beliefs. Edited August 25, 2020 by Vilander
coffee_rules Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 Product of severe resource crunch, over population and people “graduated” from humanities / social sciences, colonial thuggery educating our founding leadership
Vilander Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: Product of severe resource crunch, over population and people “graduated” from humanities / social sciences, colonial thuggery educating our founding leadership i have always felt this Engineers under represented acutely in Indian polity. Its low everywhere but super low in India. Ones who did come through i can mention the great Manohar Parrikar Ji look at what they could achieve.
coffee_rules Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Vilander said: i have always felt this Engineers under represented acutely in Indian polity. Its low everywhere but super low in India. Ones who did come through i can mention the great Manohar Parrikar Ji look at what they could achieve. Agree. And to make matters worse ...One serious gripe I have with NEP is it is encouraging IITs to have humanities courses, making them a commie den like JNU, JMI Edited August 25, 2020 by coffee_rules
Vilander Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 1 minute ago, coffee_rules said: Agree. One serious gripe I have with NEP is it is encouraging IITs to have humanities courses, making them a commie den like JNU, JMI well there is LOGIC --> it will take care of the rest. I have no worries about that cant corrupt when basic tenant is Logic.
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