For those traditionalists brethren who condemn reformers as pākhaṇḍīs merely because they do not follow Manu literally even today...
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@MJaadugar@shrutammegopaya Even if you have a possible alt history view of what happened to Dalits, where they weren't really oppressed, how are you dismissing the memory of oppression in their minds?
@MJaadugar@shrutammegopaya It doesn't have to be oppositional to Hinduism. Wasn't there a section of society that was oppressed by feudal elites? Yes. This is something that happened all across the world. And one can be opposed to Ambedkarism while having conditional respect for Ambedkar.
If you think that Biryani and Chicken tikka masala provides you nutrition than you are fooling yourself. It isn’t that Indian meat eaters are all muscular, tall and handsome….quiet the opposite actually.
@crumbfried@indicrealist@bitcoinmalayali No one is focussing on 1921. But whenever we talk about 1921 people like you take objection to it and it becomes controversial. And it's not like we ignore other topics. Take a look at what Janam TV has to say about Ayyankali.
https://t.co/Yq1gkv6xbI
@crumbfried@indicrealist@bitcoinmalayali No one takes an objection to talk about the school burning and Ayyankalis story, especially the UCs. And so it doesn't gain much attention when we talk about him.
@crumbfried@indicrealist@bitcoinmalayali We don't whitewash any crimes. Even for the school burning case, it was only a section of UCs. Hindu elite permitted education for a all but a section violently disagreed. Ayyankali earned respect so much that he was invited to be member of assembly. This was nothing like 1921.
@bitcoinmalayali@indicrealist Is that why Christianity remembers it's martyrs? To take revenge?
No one's talking about revenge here. It's a reminder of what happened.
@LalitAditya1212@arunmohanother Everything you said is right. But majority Kavus had meat offerings traditionally. In modern times things have changed, for different reasons, so today it's difficult to say what is more for the whole of Kerala.
@arunmohanother@LalitAditya1212 This is hilarious man. You act like some traditional Hindu of Kerala but you can't even agree than cows are to protected as per local beliefs as well.
@JOB_ARIMBOOR@unrave20 Hindutva movement in Kerala doesn't forget the caste issues. We often remind ourselves about it. What's there to fear in remembering when we have figures like Ayyankali, who didn't convert.
@JOB_ARIMBOOR@unrave20 Yet they were at least some Thangals in the leadership from what I remember. They aren't recent converts. If there's any truth in your theory maybe the primary motivation was religious and they merely used the new converts for that purpose.
@crumbfried@bitcoinmalayali@unrave20@sadist_2003 About not forgetting? Of course. You can find me reminding Hindus in my discussions here.
Also Hindutva is the only movement that remembers issues of caste and provides a positive-sum path forward
@JOB_ARIMBOOR@unrave20 If that's true, what's that got to do with Hindu nationalists. The phenomenon of new converts being violent or extremists towards Hindus is not new to us.