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dykesynthezoid · 1 month ago

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Was v lucky to get to see a screening of a new documentary about casteism and brahmanical patriarchy in India but also I’m supposed to be discussing it in class later and if I’m being honest the fact that the last ten minutes of the film were basically one big advertisement for Hindus to convert to Buddhism means I’m like hmm well I do have some stuff I could say about this but I don’t want to overreach

#idk I just. look. not my area of expertise #but it piques something in my brain #seeing hinduism as inherently reinforcing and originating hegemony and buddhism as inehrnetky egalitarian #bc you can only make those arguments when hinduism is the majority and buddhism a minority #and again I get why this is like. an argument being made I get how it relates to Ambedkar’s influence I understand that #but also idk there’s a lot of people in Buddhist majority countries who would really disagree w seeing buddhism as inherently egalitarian #and somehow invulnerable to participating in violent power structures #also I would’ve liked to see more input from other religious minorities in India in the documentary #one guy talked about his experience being Muslim and that was it #I don’t think they interviewed any Sikhs or Jains #also idk having the perspective of someone studying judaism—#I was surprised at the idea of just throwing away an entire religion bc its origins had problematic elements #that’s really hard for me to conceptualize tbh.#bc I feel like judaism’s approach is so… its like. the flaws in something don’t make you love it less #picking apart Torah is like. itself an act of worship and study.#like something being flawed can actually make you love it More bc it means you get to dissect it #and that is an act of love #again I mean. lmk if I overstepped anywhere.#I do understand a lot of the context.#although I might sound silly talking about it as an outsider #I get that this is not just a philosophical discussion to people and is in fact a hugely complicated thing with very very high stakes #for people’s lives #and I appreciated how informative the documentary was #I really enjoyed the look into Dalit feminist circles especially #esp bc they’re so often given zero media coverage or attention #I would def recommend the film to people just for that

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