Priyamvada Gopal outdoes herself again.
Caste?????
Wait there’s more –
“Islamophobia” in this context means skeptical or critical of theocratic Islam.
And “dominant caste Hindu background” is a snide (worse than snide) hint that Sonia Sodha is an ally of Modi and his Hindutva goals. It’s outrageous.
Comments
6 responses to “Poisonous”
‘Trans’ allies have been keeping women out of discussions concerning their rights; has she publicly objected to that?
Seems to me there have been a lot of media discussions of women’s rights, women’s safety, women’s sports, etc. in which there were no actual women present, only TiMs. You were fine with that. Turnabout’s fair play.
Oh, and the “Three white people and one dominant caste middle-class British Asian” makes it four white people, ammarite? I can almost see her skin lightening as I read the description. And I bet her name is actually Karen.
opposition to Modi, snide or not, is a good thing.
Of course it is but that doesn’t make it a good thing to label someone else a fan of Modi.
Ah. I see what you mean. Mea culpa.
From the pink news article:
Rather telling language, isn’t it? “Not been recorded”. Well of course it hasn’t, because the whole point is to obfuscate language so that it isn’t and can’t be recorded. We have seen the number of ‘women’ convicted of sexual offences rising though, I wonder why they don’t mention that.
But it’s interesting that even pink news can’t seem to bring itself to pretend it hasn’t happened, just that it hasn’t “been recorded”.