Posts by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9ovGIreN6usdXRwcam by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-11T06:25:42Z
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Is it just me or are there others who think that this government's aesthetics (the Colors it seems to like and buildings it has constructed) are a bit.... jarring and lacks a sense of equilibrium????
(DIR) Post #9p0qZLVwPeNSvwxWxE by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-16T07:13:31Z
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Why do I feel like this website is failing. :(
(DIR) Post #9pA3bJYbhuQpGo79sW by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-20T14:33:09Z
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This place is dead. 😐
(DIR) Post #9pGD01Q0Lg8cmzhrc0 by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-23T10:58:38Z
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I realised that Mastadon is more my kinda place than twitter. I love the fact that mere emotion doesn't run this place. 2 discourses from twitter- The Mahima-Utsav feud and the Maharashtra political feud, really gave me a reality check about why twitter makes people is more susceptible to binary thinking. Most content there is about virtue-signalling, emotion and self-righteousness. It's not possible to build & sustain a movement there.It's easier for communities to split than to stay united.
(DIR) Post #9pGD01sicv6gE38nMu by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-23T11:02:43Z
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I mean cooperation is something that doesn't come easy. People need to talk to each other without judging each other and "dunking" each other. I feel like emotion and labels define these conversations. No one is going to consider reform. I'm seriously wondering who effective this whole call-out culture is in triggering reform or arriving at consensus.
(DIR) Post #9pGD1nRDIaSu0b7Nlg by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-23T11:08:37Z
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The worst is when people take this behaviour off-twitter. I wonder if others are able to leave twitter in twitter. But I am not. I realised at some point j started talking AT people than TO them. I a previous toots I've kinda boasted about myself something I had confidence in- My ability to convince people polar opposite of me to see my pov. I've been feeling like I'm losing that ability because my mind works like the world is twitter.
(DIR) Post #9pGD1npJqxkPDMOdLE by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-23T11:16:51Z
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Been on twitter for only a about a year and I already see a change in my temperament. I'm furious at the smallest things that may be out of place or poorly worded now. I never had these issues off twitter, because there is always a context behind every word that I can see or understand.
(DIR) Post #9pLHAO8o5nE5lUf1Oq by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T03:40:42Z
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How to identify & moderate caste-based cyberbullying content? The type of posts that are offensive, insulting and humiliating to the bahujan Community comprising of identities of Dalits (Former "untouchables), Bahujans( backward castes that were ertswhole known as Shudras) and Adivasi (Tribal populations).By Upper castes (UC) (A.ka. Savarnas) I mean the people belonging to the Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishyia (in that order) Varnas) 1/n (These definitions are for non-Indians to understand.)
(DIR) Post #9pLLYlcSqruRLfPed6 by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T04:01:44Z
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1) Anti-Affirmative action/ reservation posts- Some people in academia try to point out the loopholes in the reservation policies from a policy/economic point of view. That's not casteist per se. Bahujans intellectuals counter these arguments very well♦️ But when Savarnas use these arguments to insult, mock, humiliate bahujan to indicate they are incompetent, stupid, worthless, "thieves" who stole their place because of reservation. Or anything of that nature. It amounts to bullying... 2/n
(DIR) Post #9pLLzYhB0jcF5HON4y by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T04:08:36Z
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2) Use of Caste Slurs - There are certain caste names used as insults to say someone is dirty, unkempt, badly dressed. Or simply to humiliate. Some of them are chamar, Madiga, Hole- Madiga, bhangi, pareiyan, Pakki, etc here's a video talking about this: https://youtu.be/wJwkIxOpqZA♦️ These are not only humiliating to the people who belong to such castes, but also, turning their identities into a cruel and insulting adjectives. 3/n
(DIR) Post #9pLLzZ8pLvjYT2KSB6 by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T04:14:56Z
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3) Content Justifying the caste system: There are some UCs, who use social Darwinism/ genetics/ social order maintanance to justify the caste system. Eg. If this is, "Brahmin Women are the prettiest", "Tamil Brahmins are the smartest", " Dalits or certain castes are genetically inferior, thats why the clean toilets". "Caste-system is NECESSARY to maintain, social balance & order" "Kshatriya's or some castes are powerful and we have the warrior blood and that's why we are on the top" .... 4/n
(DIR) Post #9pLM2UjcC1hvfXvt9E by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T04:21:31Z
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"You care born into higher or lower castes, based on the Karma from your previous birth", comments based on notions of purity and pollution - eg. "Brahmins are pure that's why they are more important in society, Dalits being the most impure are best suited for certain kinds of work" 5/n
(DIR) Post #9pLM2k3JF5NFAyGKQa by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-26T04:28:16Z
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Related to this- https://theprint.in/opinion/ncrb-adds-insult-to-crimes-against-dalits-and-yes-merit-argument-is-an-insult/311174/?amp&__twitter_impression=true2.1/n
(DIR) Post #9pU44Fa4Et2FZbcSjg by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-30T09:56:00Z
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Spoke to a RW who thinks Economic slowdown is fake news.
(DIR) Post #9pUAPXS1an9EnrOLY0 by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-30T09:58:05Z
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@varkychen Nothing, I just didn't know what to say to him. He told me not to read the hindu newspaper. Because it only spreads Fake news.
(DIR) Post #9pcUAc4YyjKN0OuWzw by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-11-28T04:53:57Z
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Why do people go to the most privileged people for philosophical advice? Except for the fact that they have the time to sit and think up shit and write it down and the social capital to get published, there is often not much substance or practicality in their philosophies. If you really want to know how to live through trauma, pain and struggles asked those who have had the experience of the same. Ask the people who are systemically, put through pain and Trauma.
(DIR) Post #9pcf7ToaK5gi1P95eK by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-12-04T13:27:29Z
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I wrote something on how Indian cinema reinforces a culture that's harmful for women in the guise of freedom of expression; and how it has the effect of endangering even the limited freedom women have.https://livewire.thewire.in/out-and-about/movies/bollywood-hypocrisy-mixed-signals-and-faux-feminism/
(DIR) Post #9pfvFr3N1MIFNbsSKu by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-12-06T02:24:46Z
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My very competent govt. is planning to increase the GST rates on all goods. Yes, during a SLOWDOWN. Only a while ago, they cut the corporate taxes, hoping that will spur investments from the corporates. So basically the average person will be paying for the tax cuts for the rich.
(DIR) Post #9plD09FmM5nQ9t8ooC by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-12-08T16:23:26Z
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1 kg onions coat 200 bucks in Bangalore, now.
(DIR) Post #9pmEEuwg839ZErm16u by Lawandemotions@mastodon.social
2019-12-09T04:08:30Z
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This is a must read piece on the recent encounter killings. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/demonising-the-legal-system-wont-help/article30239307.ece