| Academia | https://jnu.academia.edu/KaustubhNaik |
| Blog | https://goansufi.in |
Recently, the social media site Twitter saw a spate of suspensions which have seemingly contradicted its own Terms of Service (TOS). A lot of Kashmiri, Dalit, journalist, and progressive accounts were slapped by tweet deletions and account suspensions, some permanent without offering much in the way of explanations.
It's the height of ridiculousness that even in the brink of 2020 one has to explain how reservation is not a poverty alleviation program but about representation. This 'ignorance' is not organic, it's intentionally sustained by those who were in power all these years.
It's not like this distinction is so nuanced that people can't understand it. It's just that they don't want to understand it and more importantly, they don't want others to understand it.
Good people of Mastodon, I've been seeing a number of posts here that compare the Ayodhya judgment to a husband losing his wife to another man, treatment of rape victims etc. This is quite worrisome.
Women aren't property that one can win/lose claim over. Such comparisons reinforce the idea of ownership over women as passive objects. I have high hopes from this space and how we talk about women here.
So please do continue with the much-needed criticism, but please keep women out of it.
Anupam Guha
Jeetamanam جيتامنم
Siddharth
Swati