Eid Mubarak to the hospitalized, the unjustly imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, the homeless, the grieving, the workers who had to spend it away from their families, and anyone who woke up to no one wishing them a blessed Eid.
May Allah lift all of your burdens.
Archvies | Over the past few years, the Indian diaspora has become political—while keeping a safe distance from the storm centre of the toxic right-wing politics it spews—and Priyanka Chopra is simply the high priestess of the blinding bourgeois hypocrisy it has come to typify. Like Chopra, the larger community of Indian immigrants to the United States and the United Kingdom have been in the news for what they choose to endorse and ignore. Indian-Americans in New Jersey recently apologised after including a bulldozer—now a symbol of anti-Muslim hate—in a parade to celebrate 75 years of Indian independence. The New York Times noted that, “to those who understood its symbolism, it was a blunt and sinister taunt later likened to a noose or a burning cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally.”
In September 2022, the diaspora in Leicester and Birmingham went on an angry march, threatening Muslim residents in the area. Wherever the diaspora is concentrated, it is now flexing its muscles to threaten South Asian Muslims. The seeds of hate sown in India have spread like a metastasising cancer, infecting all corners of the world where Indians live.
The real grift, for me, is that Chopra—like the rest of the diaspora—keeps getting away with her delusional self-narrative. As a UN ambassador, she has stood up for everyone from George Floyd to Iranian women while inviting Modi to her wedding reception. She is by no means the only actor with a broken moral compass; Bollywood’s role as a propaganda machine for the Hindu Right recently made it to the New Yorker. But she is among the few who live in a dual reality, code-switching from propagandist to civil-rights champion more easily than one slips in and out of pyjamas.
Read Vidya Krishnan's essay on how the hypocrisy of the Indian diaspora is overwhelming: https://t.co/F8taaUHbhN
@ceeistheename@seocjnkm Jeez thanks for proving my point - instead of holding the people we look up to responsible you just want to hurl insults for no reason. As fans we should be pushing each other and bts into a positive and healthy human rights beliefs. But stay hateful xx
@PiedPurple13@seocjnkm 4. I wrote all of these down so I can get through to you or some fans that can bring more attention to this issue and maybe it helps BTS to reconsider this collab. I’m not trying to argue and I really hope you see where I’m coming from. Let me know if you need some articles
@PiedPurple13@seocjnkm 3. You’re framing this is as a personal disagreement to avoid addressing the documented harm. Whether or not I’m a fan, I can acknowledge when V or BTS is amplifying a harmful brand. Facts don’t stop being facts because you like a specific celebrity.
@PiedPurple13@seocjnkm So you’re saying you support genocide and mass murder and I’m the delusional one? You have lost all objectivity and humanity, just for an artist?
Hating a company because they support genocide is far from an opinion - are you kidding me?
@ShriisoumyaBan1@seocjnkm I definitely did - if genocide of people doesn’t affect you or the world then we’ve lost all humanity (which is all what BTS’ core beliefs are)