""What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore).""
@timnitGebru What's probably not evident to the non-Indian crowd is that Indians can clock from the very name "Balaji Srinivasan" that he's from a Brahmin family.
For context, the Brahmin caste (in the extremely toxic four-caste savarna system of Hinduism) has wielded and weaponized its position at the top of the caste ladder to maintain a hegemony over power, institutionalised discrimination against those of other castes, and ghettoised itself to minimise contact with people of other castes, including, to this day, taking a firm stance against inter-caste marriages. A distinct self-marker of Brahmin men is a sacred (white or GREY 🤭) thread worn across the torso like a sash at all times.
What's ironic and probably left out of the STEM-obsessed education systems that manufacture these tech leaders is that for all their talk of innovation, disruption and claims of proposing revolutionary ideas, they are simply perpetuating and promoting the centuries-old discriminatory systems that put them in positions of privilege and wealth.
@jwildeboer@Sustainable2050 India showing the way to the world in fascism - We've had a law on the books since 1967 (called Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), grimly evocative of thoughtcrime) in the name of combating international terrorism that has been used by the #fascist#Modi government to crush dissent and criticism. It allows detention of up to 180 days, but many have languished in jail for years, and the Supreme Court has been sitting on legal challenges to the constitutionality of the law 😔