Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 22:36
Can Indians be just stone throwers? Thats how we come across when we talk of 'black listing rutgers'. There is an old marwari saying, 'zor kamti, gussa ghana' - injurious to health. i.e. No strength and much anger is injurious to health.
Tucchi is a nutcase. But she is a very skilled nutcase. For the most part, she dances just on the other side of what will be considered racist and declared a foul by the culture gatekeepers. To 'get' people like this needs some sustained work to define the standard anew, document the transgressions over a period of time, build up a case and then no platforming a few people. Rest will learn the lesson and use the new 'guard rails' for their scholarship and activism.
But doing all this is really hard work. So yeah.. "HURR DURR... LETS BLACK LIST RUTGERS.. WE ARE BIG CONSUMERS OF THEIR EDUCATION.. THEY MUST DO EXACTLY WHAT WE DEMAND".
Its great that someone has taken the initiative to set up a petition and listed the Rutgers complaints number. But what are we going to complain about? That she called Modi or Hindutva fascist? When a very large percentage of Humanities professors are calling Trump and the republicans fascists, why would the university find this objectionable? The nearest thing that can count as hate speech would be her abusing Lord Rama, but even here, there are people (such as Christine Fair) who are abusive towards Christianity, so what exactly is the complaint? She will easily make this a free speech thing and come out as a free speech champion against ill prepared 'Fascist Hindus'.
These things are not a game. These culture fights are for your self perception.. How your children will think about their heritage.. Whether they become mindless drones serving their ideology or they become defenders of their own traditions and narrative. Tuchhis of the world are well prepared to play completely underhanded/dishonest games. Saam, daam, dand, bhed. Our side is so unprepared, that its rather funny in a dark sort of way.
Tucchi is a nutcase. But she is a very skilled nutcase. For the most part, she dances just on the other side of what will be considered racist and declared a foul by the culture gatekeepers. To 'get' people like this needs some sustained work to define the standard anew, document the transgressions over a period of time, build up a case and then no platforming a few people. Rest will learn the lesson and use the new 'guard rails' for their scholarship and activism.
But doing all this is really hard work. So yeah.. "HURR DURR... LETS BLACK LIST RUTGERS.. WE ARE BIG CONSUMERS OF THEIR EDUCATION.. THEY MUST DO EXACTLY WHAT WE DEMAND".
Its great that someone has taken the initiative to set up a petition and listed the Rutgers complaints number. But what are we going to complain about? That she called Modi or Hindutva fascist? When a very large percentage of Humanities professors are calling Trump and the republicans fascists, why would the university find this objectionable? The nearest thing that can count as hate speech would be her abusing Lord Rama, but even here, there are people (such as Christine Fair) who are abusive towards Christianity, so what exactly is the complaint? She will easily make this a free speech thing and come out as a free speech champion against ill prepared 'Fascist Hindus'.
These things are not a game. These culture fights are for your self perception.. How your children will think about their heritage.. Whether they become mindless drones serving their ideology or they become defenders of their own traditions and narrative. Tuchhis of the world are well prepared to play completely underhanded/dishonest games. Saam, daam, dand, bhed. Our side is so unprepared, that its rather funny in a dark sort of way.