[WSMDiscuss] The Epistemology of Ignorance- Casteism and Racism Exist in Multiple Colours

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! Racism andCasteism exist in multiple colours, they do not simply operates as ‘Black andWhite’ binary. It goes beyond several already accepted myths of caste and racesupremacy in different cultural context. It is necessary to understand thecomplexities inbuilt into the psyche of a person, a so called ‘Upper Caste’ orfor that matter a White Supremacist, which makes them progressives at times andalso a reluctant conservative at many a times. 

 

That is why it isalso essential to expose the inbuilt hypocrisy, performative wokeness and ade-politicised understanding that people carry with themselves. The deeplyrooted caste and racial abhorrence needs to be understood in totality ratherthan in bits and pieces. 

 

The epistemology ofignorance helps us in understanding the nuanced reality and unearthing the hiddenand not so hidden facts masquerading as truth.   

 

Do pass it on toothers in your circle/network. 

 

Joke tothe death: Caste and corona

ChandrimaS. Bhattacharya, Opinion, The Telegraph, June 12, 2020 

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/savarna-casteism-in-the-time-of-covid-19/cid/1780208?ref=opinion_home-template

 

Gingerly yours: Whatkind of hatred, which even as a joke, translates into a desire for the death ofanother? 

 

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My Casteism &Privileges: A Test For Upper Caste People In Academia

Rajorshi Das,Opinion, Feminism in India, June 10, 2020 

https://feminisminindia.com/2020/06/10/casteism-privileges-test-upper-caste-people-academia/

 

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SeeingIndia Through the Black Lives Matter Protests

Divya Cherian, Opinion, The Wire, June 09,2020 

https://thewire.in/rights/seeing-india-through-the-black-lives-matter-protests

 

It is clear thatIndia too needs urgently to address its glaring problems of systemicdiscrimination and police brutality. 

 

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First person: My caste privilege in India blinded me tothe reality of racism in the US

Mauktik Kulkarni, Opinion, Scroll, June 04, 2020 

First person: My caste privilege in India blinded me to the reality of racism in the US


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Ignorance is often bliss, but sometimes it is nothing short of a crime.

 

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With Regards 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 



 






My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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