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Indigenous and Black people who revere #ArundhatiRoy in North America need to listen to caste-oppressed people when they are telling you that AR is the queen of appropriations. 1/
You cannot be in solidarity with Kashmir or with Dalit-Bahujan people if you do not pay attention to caste and can't move beyond the "South Asian people" category and attend to all these differences that are older than those created by 500+ years of white supremacy. 2/
Recently in an interview with Nick Estes, AR lied about not being Brahmin. Please know this: Her running away to Christianity is just to claim innocence. She is a Syrian Christian who are highly upper-caste and maintain all caste distinctions and violences. 3/
She claimed that her father was part of the Brahmo Samaj precisely because he was Brahmin. To a simple question, she gave such a convoluted lie and yet wasn't called out by the interviewer. Previously AR also jokingly said her father was Muslim but in a way that many people 4/
in the audience left thinking that was true (Credit for this story goes to a dear friend of mine). PLEASE stop stealing, stop appropriating Dalit Bahujan and Pasmanda Muslim knowledges for your articles and books and talks and Facebook's radical star status and stop your lies.
There are many Jessica Krugs in South Asian community where Brahmins claims to be caste-oppressed and outright lie.
Correction: AR's father was Kyastha which is still upper-caste, land-owning caste. Grateful to a few friends who pointed this out. The critique, of course, remains 100%
