I've already revealed "Africans have no God for the Future within their pantheon of Past and Present Gods. The concept of such plays extremely little in their culture" to someone accusing me of bigotry twards blacks when I said that blacks have little reverence for cause-and-effect. I prefencend this by saying I watched a documentary on African Trible Mythos.
It makes me seem like an African Studies major instead of the the rational critically thinking man I am. Which is good. It disarms people who are just mindlessly repeating their conditioning.
I'm not LemonParty the Platinum Level racist. I'm actually a Hindu scholar. Now let me tell you about cow dung.
This is actually really great advice. Having grown up in leftwing "intellectual" circles myself, one of the most striking things I've noticed is that when it comes to Controversial Topics, it's really not about WHAT you say, but about HOW you say it (specifically, whether you appear to be
approving, or
disapproving, of the thing in question, and whether or not you, personally, pass the leftist-izzat tribal credential check).
For example,
Izzat has a Wikipedia entry. You'd think this would be a spicy topic, but the article is allowed to stand, with the Talk Page providing some telling insight into why right off the bat:
If you read the article as it currently stands, you'll see that it says more or less the same thing that our Izzat Feature does:
izzat is a zero-sum honor system where actions are motivated, not by a universal standard of right or wrong, but by punishing insults and currying favours.
The difference is, the Wikipedia article tries to emphasize the currying favours side of izzat (with carefully chosen language like
"The idea of reciprocity (in friendship)" and
"It is required, for example, that a person goes to any lengths to come to the assistance of those who had previously helped them in their time of need"), and also inserts Feminism into the opening paragraphs for no real reason, other than to assure leftist readers that what they are reading is halal and not haram, and that any bad feelings you might get from reading this can be ascribed to
problematic attitudes towards women, and not
Jeets being fucking crazy.
The rest of the article continues like that, alternating between positive dog whistles to keep the reader reading (
izzat helped Indians resist British imperialism) and softly negative information (izzat has led to leaders of
"hitherto-backwards" -not
"backwards", which would be too negative - being
mildly dysfunctional maybe, but HEY!
Social justice welfare trains.)
Importantly, the article completely fails to take the important step of applying our understanding of izzat to the world around us, both in regards to India itself, and in regards to India's economic and cultural relationship with the rest of the world.
Other, more scholarly pieces of writing might be allowed to ask these questions, but only if the author is
a properly credentialled (i.e.
indoctrinated)
member of the leftist-intellectual-caste, and only if the final product fits within the approved parameters for discussing "
peoples of colour in the post-colonial developing world" (again, stay positive and don't make negative critiques, except when you can make that critique from a Marxist, Feminist, or Anti-Racist perspective). That final product will then be paywalled away in an obscure journal somewhere, so that only properly credentialled intellectuals,
trained in reading discourse through a critical lens (i.e.
fully committed to the bullshit), will ever stumble upon it.
tl;dr you can say basically whatever you want to a leftist - reality IS reality, regardless of what anyone says - but they will only listen to you if you follow a specific set of rules that they've been trained to follow; rules drilled into them for years, which are designed to keep them from overtly assessing and criticizing non-patriarchal, non-Western, non-heteronormative behaviors.
It's hard, but possible, to use this to poo-pill even the most hardened of Redditors on the Eternal Indian.
For instance, instead of saying:
"oh man, check out these filthy Jeets flinging cow shit at each other" followed by unspeakable horrors.
Instead try:
"India has such a rich and ancient cultural tradition! For example, while studying abroad, I happened across the most marvelous festival to the Kannadigan god Beeraba, who was birthed from cow dung, and is honored every year with a set of sacred rituals that are often misunderstood or misrepresented by Western observers. As a member of the Desi diaspora myself, let me educate you on them" followed by unspeakable horrors.