#Caste

[metamatar]

kshama sawant (former seattle city council politician) who has been critical of modi and supportive of the dalit organising efforts in the united states to pass the first successful piece of us legislation to recognise caste based discrimination has currently been denied a visa for the third time to india to visit her very sick mother.

[timetravellingkitty]

I saw something on Twitter about how vegetarian (and specifically UC I think) condemning non-vegetarians for eating meat is casteist but I don't see how? I'm genuinely confused, please explain if possible 😭

because upper caste elites have attached moral purity to consuming only vegetarian food and shaming dalit communities for eating meat (especially beef) cause it makes them impure/dirty. dalits and muslims (who also eat beef) are regularly lynched on the mere SUSPICION of eating or handling beef

[that-odd-puzzle-piece]

Something that Americans (and also other Western people, but especially Americans) need to understand is how much US hegemony affects non americans, and how much power you guys hold over us.

The only problems we talk about are the ones that the west notices, because all of social media, and honestly, all of power, is held by America and the west. We don't talk about genocides that have been happening for centuries and problems like caste that pervade south Asian and the treatment of indigenous populations in different countries because Americans don't talk about it.

The only reason the world is noticing Palestine is because the west decided to take interest, and the only way Palestine will be free and all these problems will be brought into the world's eye is through the west's (and Americans') continued interest.

Look into these problems, talk about these problems. We wear jeans and watch American shows and eat from American food joints. The kind of soft power you guys hold is unimaginable. Use it.

[certified-yapper-guy]

the youth of india that has submitted to facism and right wing politics very conveniently complains about reservations but not about the lack of opportunities and seats by the government.

like do you really think by removing reservation, there would still be enough seats in institutions for lakhs of students?

the entire entrance system is a symptom of govt incapability to provide basic higher education and jobs and trap the youth into giving exams and blame their failure on students/candidates/people for not cracking them.

again, what good can come from the generation that believes that the government's responsibility is to build temples rather than focus on important things like education, infrastructure, development etc. these terms are almost non existent and alien.

[artfilmfan]

Origin (Ava Duvernay, 2023)

[aut2imagineart]

As challenging as arthropods are to draw, I wanted to create a detailed look at one of my two uplifted which I call the Sprites. I actually imagine a story line with these and the other new uplifted the Scurachin who will get their own dedicated post.

Like the rest of the uplifted from my Centauri Universe, the Sprites are hybrids of various Earth animals that possess human level sapience. In their case, the Sprites are a combination of ants, bees, and portia spiders. They consist of four main castes (workers, warriors, drones, and queens) and communicate primarily through pheromones, visuals, and vibrations. The workers, the most numerous caste, and responsible for constructing elaborate nests and communication systems (a network of vibrating web strands) as well as hunting and gathering. Like bees and ants respectively, Sprites are callable of making honey and growing fungi as alternate food sources. Though all castes have venomous vangs, the warriors are the only caste to possess stingers and can spray formic acid. Their role is to protect their colonies as well as assist in hunting more dangerous prey. In normal bee and ant colonies, the drones sole purpose is to breed with the queens (often perishing shorty afterwards). Sprite drones serve a similar purpose but have more individual intelligence due to their larger size they play some leadership roles along with the queens. Being the largest caste members, the queens have the most individual intelligence as their size allows larger brains and more neuron density. Due to this, they play major roles in leadership as well as breed. However, much like bees, sprites actually have a democratic system where important actions (moving locations, gathering spots, attacking targets, etc) are voted on by the other caste members with even the workers suggesting key actions.

As mentioned previously I'll do a dedicated post to my other new uplifted at some point in the future. I'm working full time now so my posts will unfortunately be a little less frequent.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Genuine question for the upper caste people in desiblr. Why do you think "caste is in the past"? Everytime I have seen someone confidently proclaiming that caste is a problem of a bygone era it is always a UC. You guys don't live our reality. You guys don't know the first thing about what it is like from our side. So why do you feel comfortable speaking for us? Would you like it if a British person were to proclaim that colonialism wasn't actually so bad? No? Then why is it different for us?

[breadpakodaa]

every day i scroll through the casteism tag on tumblr and it makes me want to cry because like. how can you hate us so much? after killing us, after raping us, after everything, how can you possibly hate us this much? simply because we try to climb up the social ladder. we dream of being your equals? that is our crime?

my great grandmother had to raise four kids on her own in the 50s, because her husband died in a raid. why was he part of the raid? because there was a literal law preventing him from getting a job, getting an education because apparently my people are 'criminal by nature'. but he had to feed his children. so he became what they perceived him as. he turned to crime. the people in my village were lined up and inspected on a daily basis. i can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like.

i grew up on stories of persecution. persecution of my people.you put them through that yet you hate us? simply for wanting social dignity?

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"High Tea at the Kapurs" by Karuna Ezara Parikh

[metamatar]

i always forget that the vast majority of people on here don't know that hinduism is a uniquely oppressive religion and view it vaguely like some exotic and beautiful brown people spirituality.

no other religion unpersons such a vast swathe of purported adherents textually, maintains practices that make them objects of ritual abjection that are excluded from society thru untouchability, exploits their labour thru customary labour obligations and restrictions on land ownership that increase their material subjection and attempts to deny them even understanding of their own position and the right to organise by making literacy itself an upper caste privilege. and this is all before the hindu fascists even burned down the first mosque and started pogroms and initiatied the process of stripping muslims from citizenship. just because hinduism doesn't have global hegemony never meant that stopped it from violently exercising its hegemony on the subcontinent.

[timetravellingkitty]

you guys do know how caste apartheid works right. you guys know that saying "i did not grow up thinking about caste" is a sign that you're privileged right. that you've never personally experienced or witnessed caste discrimination is a privilege right. and that caste discrimination, whether you like it or not, is still alive in the urban sectors right. it is not a social evil that is either a thing of the past or confined to remote, rural areas, but you know that right

[papenathys]

Sign this petition and show your solidarity to Yashica Dutt, Dalit writer and activist whose life experiences and immensely personal narratives of caste identity were plagiarized from her memoir, for an episode storyline by the makers of a famous Indian show, "Made in Heaven" without any credit to Dutt.

Worse, when Dutt recognized the similarities between her writing/life and the characters in the show, the makers of the show including famous Bollywood directors Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti humiliated her, issued a formal statement on social media accusing her of seeking attention and spearheaded a hate campaign against her, allied with bigshots of the Hindi film industry, included noted casteist filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.

Casteism is one of the evils in India that even faux-progressive liberals don't want to talk about, because it hurts their veneer of being perfect activists in every other spectrum (religion, sexuality, political ideology). By sharing your support towards this author, you help in resisting the campaign by savarna rich Bollywood celebrities trying to silence a Dalit academic.

[life-spire]

@ vish.px

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