A small price to pay to achieve DIE.
Most people can’t even begin to understand how insane this is. Far, far worse than Vivek’s meltdown at Christmas. Dinesh has spent literal decades pretending to be raceblind, and railing against identity politics.Then, when H-1B immigration starts to receive even the smallest pushback, he goes out of his way, under no pressure, literally 0, none, not even someone replying to him or talking about politics, to find a random YouTuber who is documenting something unsavoury about india, and brag that America and her future “belongs” to indians like him. He saw some people insulting indians, and he immediately dropped the mask he had maintained for decades, became an outright ethnonationalist, and started bragging that he and his coethnics will take over America.Dinesh is incredibly prominent, and has spent FOUR DECADES working his way into American politics. For 40 years he has been telling Americans to abandon identity politics. And the whole time he was just a closeted indian ethnonationalist, disguising his true beliefs. How many more foreign-born political commentators think exactly like him? How many political commentators who are born to immigrant parents think exactly like him?Dinesh D’Souza is literally an indian ethnonationalist who is insulting White Americans and bragging that indians will take over the USA. This should be 10x more disqualifying than even Vivek’s worst moments.
And heres the justification of the importance of eating cow dung and keeping cow dung on your porch
The Guardian: Reza Aslan outrages Hindus by eating human brains in CNN documentary^Cannibalism in India? Wasn't aware of that.
That's what these five boys told me, that caste exclusion was normal, which was a surprise since my public school social studies classes had all framed this as something that had ended in ancient times, while those mean British colonizers had misunderstood the noble savages. Since then I've confirmed many times about the continued existence of the caste system preventing lower castes from going to certain schools and getting certain jobs.Didn't realize there is straight up caste discrimination in the Indian university system, you would think that given their numbers, the lower castes could get that voted out of existence?
The boys approached me to practice their already excellent english while I was doing an exercise in the campus café with my Chinese students, who were all doctors. The Indian boys were friendly and charming, so we ended up talking quite a bit every week after my classes. Eventually, I asked them to confirm for me some things from two sources about Indian culture: (1) the low budget American film Outsourced (2006) and (2) the five hour BBC documentary, The Story of India.Did the parents use a bidet instead of toilet paper?
It was the British who gave Indians a sense of history, the intellectual and institutional mirror to see themselves clearly as members of the human race. They replaced guru-shishya myth-making with scholarly archives, and the disciplines of history, linguistics, archeology, and geography to study their culture and history. They built them true universities.
Before the Brits arrived, India had no historiographical tradition based on proper archives, documentation and causal analysis. They had mytho-poetic chronicles where legend was confounded with fact.
Thanks to the British, Indians learned about archival preservation. The Imperial Records Department (1891), established by the English, as well as provincial record rooms, preserved millions of Mughal, Maratha historical documents.
Properly trained British scholars like H.H. Wilson, James Prinsep, and Max Müller deciphered inscriptions such as Ashokan edicts.
It was the British who gave them scholarly periodicals and peer review journals, such as Journal of the Asiatic Society.
As a result, after thousands of years, Indians learned to write their own history. The first historical books about India were written by Brits: Vincent Smith's Early History of India (1904). They trained Indians to write the first modern histories, such as R.C. Majumdar, Jadunath Sarkar, and K.A. Nilakanta Sastri.
The British built Indians the first true universities, away from Madrasas and monastic centers: Calcutta, Bombay, Madras (1857) where the first to offer BA/BSc degrees, with research in sciences and humanities. In 1912, Brits produced the first Indian PhD in science.
In total, by 1947, India inherited 5 modern universities from the British, in addition to many colleges.
By creating Archaeological Survey of India, 1861, Indians were able to discover the Indus Valley (1924), under John Marshall.
Two Indian archeologists trained by the British, Dayaram Sahni and R.D. Banerji, used British methods to excavate Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
The British standardized Indian dialects. William Jones (1786) connected Sanskrit–Greek–Latin, leading to birth of comparative philology.
Fort William College (1800) produced first Hindi/Urdu grammars.
The British standardized scripts: Nagari for Hindi, Perso-Arabic for Urdu, which enabled mass printing.
The Indian Civil Service exams (created by British, 1853) trained the very bureaucrats who dismantled the Raj.
I will post later refuting the claim that Britain "de-industrialized" India, showing they created foundations for modern India.
Image: Elphinstone College, built 1835.
