06-02-2006, 09:25 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-sroy+Jun 1 2006, 08:53 AM-->QUOTE(sroy @ Jun 1 2006, 08:53 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->This forum has its fair share of racists/casteists. Its all fine and dandy to refute AIT and sing paens of *all are Indians* stuff. But, suddenly when someones caste is at the receiving end *purity* poppycock are floated around.
It hurts those that are fighting AIT and it hurts those that have rejected caste system in their day to day dealings with public at large.
BTW, there no such BS in BhagawadGita and ManuSmriti has no exalted standing in Hinduism.
These casteists are sick, they are driving increasing numbers of ST/SC towards Christainity/Islam.
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Abrahmic propaganda via AIT has essentially de-ethnicized the brahmins. For the other 3 castes, the identities are always triangulated via jati, varna, and gotra. for brahmins, the jati component has been severed by AIT; that is, they are forever seen as the inocula of northern vedic culture rather than as "sons of the soil"; whereas we have indigineous kshatriyas, vaishyas, sudras in the south- the brahmin is a foreigner. it gives them an unwarranted intellectual aura and highlights them for political attack... the biggest problem is that they are seen as the sole agents of so-called "sanskritization", rather than sanskritic culture being indigineous to all jatis. of course, romila types will now accuse of ignoring austric component in india, etc, in attempts to obfuscate the issue....
It hurts those that are fighting AIT and it hurts those that have rejected caste system in their day to day dealings with public at large.
BTW, there no such BS in BhagawadGita and ManuSmriti has no exalted standing in Hinduism.
These casteists are sick, they are driving increasing numbers of ST/SC towards Christainity/Islam.
[right][snapback]51955[/snapback][/right]
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Abrahmic propaganda via AIT has essentially de-ethnicized the brahmins. For the other 3 castes, the identities are always triangulated via jati, varna, and gotra. for brahmins, the jati component has been severed by AIT; that is, they are forever seen as the inocula of northern vedic culture rather than as "sons of the soil"; whereas we have indigineous kshatriyas, vaishyas, sudras in the south- the brahmin is a foreigner. it gives them an unwarranted intellectual aura and highlights them for political attack... the biggest problem is that they are seen as the sole agents of so-called "sanskritization", rather than sanskritic culture being indigineous to all jatis. of course, romila types will now accuse of ignoring austric component in india, etc, in attempts to obfuscate the issue....