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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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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%
