Identity Politics
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Islam, India & Identity 🧵: Were Muslims essentially a single homogenous community having a shared sense of identity throughout the history of subcontinent? No. https://t.co/sJXA...
Had a manager who was gay, upper middle-class, prog. Railed about capitalism and the working class all the time. One day a woman he employed as a housekeeper came by the office and...
Interestingly, many think Rishi becoming PM is a "victory" for progressive politics. Rishi may be of Asian heritage, but he is first and foremost of the establishment.
@vijaygajera If you do a caste analysis of these folks, you will see most of them are UC. Now, it doesn't really matter to me. But, these same idiots will later cry about under-re...
Hate crimes against Hindus have risen recently in the USA & UK. They will receive no institutional support unless they start firmly asserting their identity. The age of individual...
“Off the mat, I understood and agreed with critiques of the American yoga industry, which profits from a religious tradition and culture that is not its own. But on the mat, I let...
If someone makes up an identity grounded in nothing but subjective feeling and a state recognizes it as constituting a protected class, subjective reality becomes immune to challen...
The biggest problem with Hs that I have realised over the yrs is that they don't know how to sell their story. Their situation in IND is akin to Blacks & Native Americans of US & y...
I'm an 18-year-old white male. I was in middle school only 5 years ago. I think I can offer some perspective on @dannagal's thread. Yes, young white males increasingly identify a...
1/15 A thread: The LGBT share among young Americans tripled in the last decade to 21%. Trans & non-binary identification may be up as much as 1000%. My new @CSPICenterOrg report sh...
With respect to the diaspora, my somewhat naive (i.e. based on personal convos and twitter) view is as follows: All dharmic peoples in America operate against a backdrop of a preex...
Why "wokeism" keeps accelerating 🧵 Self-interest compels people to form groups, however group membership is often predicated on [performative] denunciations of self-interest.
I'm not talking about how Chitpavan Brahmins were hunted down after Mohandas Gandhi's assassination! I'm not talking about how Kashmiri Brahmins were chased out of their own homes...
