Not to mention when the issue being discussed here is the left's apathy towards Hindu Americans and their false equivalency towards every openly Hindu for being a BJP supporter or Hindutva agent, while simultaneously asking someone how they do not know about a recently sprouted political group in India. Pick a side, staying with American topics or not?
CJP that showed up like a blip and vanished?! CJP that rode the coattails of Sonam Wangchuk, who himself lost faith in them now. Every global Indian expert should have a PhD on these already vanished activists? Youth everywhere have genuine grievances that need to be addressed, CJP is not the beacon of youth hope that everyone claims for them to be, they are just political tool without the symbol.
This is what awakened me as a mom of Hindu-American kids who would be villified just for existing. The goal was to make it so painful to be a Hindu, that these kids had only one choice, apologize for being who they are and erase themselves and conform into the identity left assigns them which includes being a flag bearer for every cause they champion without fail, else they'd be branded a Hindutva agent.
It is hilarious when people try to file cultural habits(more jati and ancestry tied) into caste brackets. The dietery habits among extremely devout Hindus change every few miles, including consumption of meat or lack of it. You will however find high priest saviors making sweeping statements that all high caste people are vegeterian and others are meat eaters. Ignorant and too arrogant to learn!
@MJaadugar He wanted to extend it nationally, by his own admission! And then he asks, where does it show Hindu politicians on left have to throw their own under the bus to be accepted ๐
Entire CA Democratic legislature doesn't count for something on the left? Their collective legislative power and ignorance against a religious minority doesn't add up? Weak arguments ๐ one of the arguments made in support of the bill was endogamous marriages were a sign of caste adherence, my kids who never knew their caste or anyone elses, should start asking their potential partners for their caste lest they be accused? Left's billigerence on promoting the caste problem was akin to a hammer looking for a nail.
๐๐คฃ These dismantle Hindutva tropes were used to table a redundant CA bill, SB403. It directly targeted Hindus in California, with an express goal to take this national. The organizers of this conference and many of their connected actors were the leading sponsors and promoters of this bill. Here are your 'average American leftist', so average that they are all in the CA legislature, and voted for SB403, a bill so stupid that Gov.Newsom vetoed it without a second thought. Pay close attention to the nay section.
And there you have it! You had to show your loyalty by going after Hindus to show your own purity, how you are not like 'them', championing a solution for a non-existent problem, because that is the Aisha Wahab way to national celebrity on the left. Look where that landed her! Cisco case was a bust, national data doesn't even show a blip of caste discrimination to make this a nation wide campaign and yet, look how you need this strawman to gain relevance among your peers. This, my friend is what you are refusing to see and despite mounting proof being presented to you.
@TheEmissaryCo@Noahpinion You got me. I think caste discrimination is bad.
Tell me where caste is already a protected class in the Constitution or subsequent legislation?
For that to be crystal clear, someone has to clearly define both, because every time a Hindu stands up to bigotry they are branded Hindutva. Are you able to define what each stands for, especially interested in what Hindutva stands for and how you describe someone who actively practices it.
@MarisaCat3@usethisnamehere@KTVU Far from it, you are taking focus away from this despicable person who took a child's life and devastated a family and instead the focus is on where he worked. Apple didn't cause the crash, an irresponsible person did and he deserves all the punishment law can mete and then some.
It doesn't stop at asking! Every Indian and Hindu CA state legislator had to enthusiastically back the flawed SB403 CA caste bill. It was unnecessary bill at best, considering all aspects of discrimination based on caste were already in place in CA anti-discrimination code. Imagine the political fate of any one of them who dared oppose it. It took a white guy, Governor Newsom to veto the stupidity. You think Ro would have survived had he done what Newsom did?
@usethisnamehere@KTVU More like, near or outside the main campus. I can accept a byline inside the article, but leading with 'An Apple employee...'? is nefarious and bad faith.
He is safe and a mob won't come in defense of Hindus, and admonish him. Right hates them anyway, so much so that they'll lose important elections over it, and left, well, Vivek and Kash are politically right so attacking their identity is a fair game, never mind that this bigotry can impact innocents downstream.
@saikatc@vjgtweets Right is in your face and crude with their bigotry.
Left ๐ Why was asking Ro Khanna this question acceptable? Abdul El-Sayed could not be asked about his families Muslim Brotherhood ties, but Ro Khanna has to bring up his grandfather repeatedly to show his purity to the left.
You are missing the point: Hindu-ness is fundamentally suspect on the left. The bogey of โHindutvaโ looms large and is used as a cudgel to keep prominent Hindus in line. To remain in good standing, one must subordinate themselves fully to progressive ideological dictates, which requires the sort of perfunctory denunciations of the BJP we see from Ro and Anand. If and when you reach prominent political office, youโll be forced to do the same
@vjgtweets Coz, all people are indigenous except the Indians in India who were actually colonized. Accepting that would be a big hardship, because these pesky Indians have already been filed under the oppressor column and redoing the whole sheet is such a pain in you know what.