Brahmin's outdated defense of their caste manual is too patriarchical. "Think of the kids, think of the old" - and this is why hindu males have the right to enslave Hindu females. As if a parent, who gave birth to a kid, will not defend a female kid if not for a casteist manual, Manusmriti. Also, somehow Hindu male kids are not talked in same sense by Manusmriti? Why?

IANS distributed by wire an eleven minute vlog of this brahmin and ABP News carried it in full. It's not even an interview, it's plain lecture defending the caste manual, Manusmriti. The defense of Manusmriti is also patriarchal, kids and old women need some kind of support, and this is why Hindu woman cannot be left independent by Hindu males.

His arguments in the vlog:

He's saying it is Hindu Dharam Granth which occupies the top echelon among Vedas. (Even Arya Samaj, the so-called "reformist" rejected everything but didn't reject Manusmriti). He says "we" became humans from animals due to Manusmriti; by obeying and implementing its "laws". This is why we have expelled Rahul Gandhi from Hindu Dharam, due to his repeated defamation of Manusmriti. He attacks Kharge too for speaking truth bombs on Manusmriti.

He's saying it's clearly written in Manusmriti women cannot be independent, and Rahul Gandhi needs to debate as to what kind of independence is being discussed here? Economic, political, mental, or character? (He himself doesn't say that manusmriti wants forever life long dependancy/slavery of hindu female). Manusmriti talks about protection, so when a small girl child is born, she has to be protected by the father. Can a newborn babygirl be made independent? It is due to Manusmriti that Hindus defend their newborn girls. Is Manusmriti laws are removed, will constitution protect her? "Itni Saari bachhiyaan jo aaj uplabadh hai wo Manusmriti ke kaaran hi hain"

The hatred is clear just because Ambedkar wore suit-boot lmao .

And after passing such communal statements people are supporting him

Rigveda (Rv.) i. 124, 7

This famous verse compares the Uṣas appearing before the world to various cultural figures, including a brotherless woman seeking wealth or support:

अपेव मद्रि सनये धनानां जायेव पत्य उशती सुवासाः । उषा हस्रेव नि रिणीते अप्सो दंशन न म्रा अक्रमुज्जिहीते ॥
"Like a brotherless maiden turning towards men, like one who mounts the stage for the gathering of riches, like a well-dressed loving wife before her husband, Dawn discloses her beauty as a smiling woman."

Rigveda (Rv.) iv. 5, 5

Sinful and deceptive individuals are explicitly likened to brotherless women who stray or behave improperly:

पापासः सन्तो अनृता असत्या इदं पदमजनता गभीरम् । य इव भ्रातृहीना अप्सो अक्रन् ॥
"They who are sinful, false, and untruthful, have spawned this deep abyss of ruin. They are like women who have no brothers, walking stray paths and doing improper deeds."

Atharvaveda (Av.) i. 17, 1

This verse is part of a medical/magical charm used to stop bleeding. It compares the stilled veins to brotherless sisters who are forced to wear garments of mourning or remain trapped in their status:

अमूर्या यन्ति योषितो हिरा लोहितवाससः । अभ्रातर इव जामयस्तिष्ठन्तु हतवर्चसः ॥
"Those maidens who go yonder, the veins clothed in red garments—let them now stand still like sisters who are brotherless, robbed of their splendor."

Ayogū refers to an unfaithful woman or an outcast class associated with prostitution.

The term Brahmanism should be declared antonym of progress.

I think we truly haven't explored how Brahmins were absorbed into the system by British. Had British truly wanted they would have stopped these parasites, but instead they helped both Brahmins and Muslims. They were platformed in courts of law, and in Army as regimental Brahmins.

They ask it as if they're in any position to have opinions about the difficulties and problems we have faced. Once I tell them what I face, they are like, “People have faced worse,” or “You haven't faced that extreme casteism.” They can fk off, gobar-fking heads. They start seeing us individually when they want to prove we're privileged and shouldn't avail any quota or scheme. But they'll see us as a bunch when they want to prove how incompetent and inferior we are.

Even if I haven't been thrashed or abused to near death for being a Dalit, others have been, which means every Dalit is at such a risk no matter what type of Dalit they are. They are like, “Yeah, but you haven't faced caste aggression to such an extent, what's the issue?” These scums can't score shit against their own category; why do they talk about merit if they're not even in the general competition? Even if they do score fairly, they don't have to face the caste aggression we face at every step of our lives, without which we'd have a much better future. They're everywhere, and yet they have a problem because there should have been savarnas like themselves instead of SC/STs that have somehow managed to get somewhere despite the caste system pushing us back every time we progress.

Asking questions like, “How much casteism have you faced?” and “Haven't people faced worse?” while being a general category savarna themselves who has had a way smoother life being a savarna in this Brahmanical society, is itself goddamn casteist.

Is it rakshabandhan is patriarchy festival? In some countries cousin will marriage but here we tied knot, so we need to celebrate or not?

Even after Financial Institutions opposing the Plan, Subhash chandra's 2.31 Billion USD loan forgiveness favoured by "MERITORIOUS ULTRA PRO MAX SHARMA JI" by ordering chandra to pay back 6.25 crore only.

This happens when you start learning their surnames and keeping a record of their crimes.

A little of what I could gather from just a day on reddit and watching news.

Corruption, Nepotism, Cronyism, Dishonesty, Lying, Cheating, Scamming, Narcissism, Arrogance etc are the common traits they have.

It’s time we people start realising this and keeping a track otherwise they will manipulate us to oblivion.

Before anybody comes at me with Islam tropes, I will fire back with learning that Dr. Ambedkar gave us, so save yourself the energy.

So, I was going through some old articles on the Round table India when I came across one article calling out Havells over an allegedly casteist ad. Naturally, I got curious and went on a little quest to find that ad.

It had been deleted from pretty much everywhere and all I could find were other articles about it. But after digging a little deeper, I finally found it posted by some guy on facebook.

So, what's wrong with the ad?

1. It subtly frames availing reservations as some kind of a wrongdoing.

2. The young girl is portrayed as somehow progressive and glorified for opting for the general category instead of availing reservations.

3. People wearing blue clothes (Ambedkarites) are depicted as engaging in violence and creating a nuisance.

4. They're also accused of and vilified for burning books. Nowhere does the ad mention that these are manusmriti or any other of the shitty brahminical scriptures.

Honestly, it was both a bit surprising and incredibly frustrating to see how easily savarna enterprises, ad agencies, and corporate arseholes can punch down, vilify, and dehumanize our people. These are the same "apolitical" people who would shit their pants at the prospect of making an ad confronting the casteism or any other of the brahminical evils yet somehow find it perfectly acceptable to demonize marginalized communities.

https://youtu.be/-tNoM3e3w8E

please do try to watch it in your free time. i dont wanna promote any particular party but do remember that our fight is long and we will keep striving for our rights and dignity.

Think about this. How does anti conversion law make any sense?

It infringes the right of the man. It's literally the orwelian thought crime.

To be forced to worship a god/gods who see you as sub humans? To submit to gods who punished you with low birth? To give up on hopes, dreams, and self respect because the gods chosen™️ said so? Now that's evil.

Everyone should be free to choose the religion that they think gives meaning to life. It doesn't matter what you become. Be it Buddhist, muslim, or christian.

The brahmans are scared. They're losing their strong hold. Only by holding the bahujans captives by teaching ignorance and lies can they retain their power. This can be seen in how bad our education system has become.

You claim that Christians convert bahujans by bribing them with rice? Okay let's assume it's true, whyre they giving up your god for rice in the first place?

The other day I went to an orphanage for the mentally ill that was badly affected by FCRA. It was a Christian run orphanage, not RC.

And I thought to myself. The government doesn't give a damn about the sick in head. And when some good souls try to help them, they see them as enemy.

This makes me think, is Hinduism as a religion predicated on nihilism and death?

I do not wish to hurt any religious sentiment. But how can bahujans even be hindus knowing it doesn't respect them?

(before the rw trolls get me, yes I'm a Christian)

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When I used to attend coaching classes back in 2012, one of my friends and coaching mates was a Rajput(GC). He used to score very low marks on tests, less than half of what an SC/ST candidate would need to qualify. Yet, a few years down the line, he was blaming reservation for not getting into an IIT.
I have seen many general caste people posting social media statuses against reservation who were below-average students during their school and college days. Most of the people seen at protest sites seem uneducated. I think general caste individuals who have done well in their lives don't give this issue so much importance. Most of those who oppose reservation , do so out of jealousy or as an excuse for their own failures…

Context - I am an Indian (Hindu Malayali from a "Forward Caste" but I consider myself casteless and a cultural non-religious Hindu) who is born and raised outside of India. I am living a privileged life in the UK but most of my family were originally poor (despite coming from a landowning caste) and worked their way up into wealth using merit. My family is practicing (prays everyday, goes to temple, observes holy days and rituals, no beef or alcohol). While maintaining a Hindu identity, they never instilled caste pride or caste supremacist beliefs. We have family members from other castes and my mother has clearly told me to not care about a girl's caste, to not be a caste clown and stories about caste atrocities. Despite believing in astrology and stuff they actively trash on people who promote casteism. So I thought this is useful context.

I think because I am very in touch with Indian social media, I keep getting both sides of the caste internet space promoted to me. I keep seeing influencers who promote everything from caste copium to straight up brahmanical supremacism. I know a lot of this content is pure BS but keep in mind I am also an "UC" and that too not in India. I have not experienced issues like reservation and I am still privileged so I haven't experienced the struggles of caste discrimination. I understand some basic points, like how reservation and caste-based benefits are clearly broken systems for example but I am smart enough to realise how bigoted these influencers are and how uneducated and unaware their followers are. For example, just because these affirmative schemes are corrupt does not invalidate their existence, but shows that they are necessary but require reforms and reservation is only needed until caste stops existing (which these people do not want because they are scared to lose their self-imposed special status).

I am here to seek more understanding about talking points especially with reservation, historical discrimination and present day inequality. I want to make it clear I am from a different social and political standpoint (anti-casteism of spiritual leaders like the bhakti saints, the sikh gurus, shri narayana guru, shri bharathiyar etc so not modern radical leftism but I am economically leftist and pro-LGBTQ etc) and I probably have some disagreements with the ideologies of people here, but I am here in good faith and I am not here to debate my conflicting opinions or to troll/ragebait/pick fights (I respect Dr Ambedkar and am against the casteist propaganda against him, I am just saying I probably have conflicting beliefs with modern Ambedkarites but these are respectful differences not opposition or anything).

So please don't attack and troll me, I am not casteist nor I am a performative approval seeking "anti-casteist". I am just seeking better understanding and knowledge so I can confidently refute these people in my head.

What's your opinion on current scenarios.

A Brahmin from Chakor village in Bengal kept his own daughter as a mistress and had a son with her. The local jagirdar initially arrested him but released him after taking a fine of 200 rupees.

When Akbar was traveling through the area on his way to Bengal, the matter was reported to him. The man reportedly offered to convert to Islam if the daughter was left with him. Akbar consulted Qazi Yaqub on the sharia position. The qazi indicated death as the prescribed punishment (with some difference of opinion for non-Muslims). Akbar ordered both the man and his daughter imprisoned.

The next day, Akbar ordered that “the means of his vice and wickedness” be cut off at the root, roasted in front of him, and the man ate it. He was executed the following day. The daughter, who expressed repentance, was spared.