We privileged leftlibs have taken the issue of religious persecution in India and made it completely about ourselves. I think some of us unironically believe that WE are the real victims. 1/8

Every discourse about communal violence is less about practical solutions and more about doomerposting about the death of some mythical idea of India and loda lehsun tehzeeb. Like our right to attend Rekhta is more at risk than other people's right to keep living. 2/8

We pat ourselves on the back for tokenistic shit like "buying Christmas cakes baked by Muslim chefs from Jewish-run bakeries" as the WhatsApp forward goes. We attend food festivals and post pics of us eating beef and think that's enough praxis for the day.3/8

We refuse to acknowledge that given our immense social privilege, we can get away with even cannibalism, forget beef. But ultimately it's a Mohammed Akhlaq that's going to get mob lynched. So who is this even helping? 4/8

And the Love Jihad discourse has to be the most cursed of all. Everytime this topic pops up, every girl and her grandma finds an excuse to creepily leer at Muslim men. I used to be one of these women myself and I'm so not proud of that phase. 5/8

I'm glad my old accs got suspended and all that cringe I tweeted no longer exists. Anyway...

It feels like this rant is going nowhere. I'll just say that while we call ourselves 'allies' and say a lot of things about solidarity, we are completely missing the point somewhere6/8

and doing a major disservice to the people we claim to be fighting for. Maybe the reason why fascism wins is not fascists alone but also people like us who internally sabotage movements by hogging the limelight and diverting the focus of7/8

the discourse.

I think it's high time we learn to shut the fuck up, take a backseat, and only open our mouth if we have something useful to say. And practice unconditional solidarity while we're at it. 8/8