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Jun. 2nd, 2009 12:44 pmI was really hesitant to write anything for the Asian Women Blog Carnival this time (to the point where I missed the submission date) after last carnival's post about my objection to white people trivializing my religion resulted in a cavalcade of people either:
a) detailing their Very Special Circumstances About Hinduism and asking me to give them a pass
b) telling me that I was being selfish/ignorant/reverse racist/narrow-minded
-- as well as one particularly baffling incident where a person private messaged me with a link to a dreadlocking comm (I know, I know) where a redhead with dreads showed off photos of her black kitten that she was going to name Kali. This person sent me the link because she thought I should see that for everyone who read my post and understood, there were still people who had "a hope that they share in a culture that they feel is richer and more raw and valid then their own". She gave me her e-mail address in case I wanted to discuss it with her.
I didn't. Oddly enough, I don't need random people sending me links to idiots to know that people still treat my religion/culture like crap.
Some of those people happen to be Indian.
I hate to talk about this publicly because inter-PoC discussions often get co-opted by racists (ask me how many times I've had to challenge people who say, "oh but black people had slavery in africa! oh but indian people have castes based on skin colour!"). But since the theme is intersectionality, I figure ( I might as well address it. )
a) detailing their Very Special Circumstances About Hinduism and asking me to give them a pass
b) telling me that I was being selfish/ignorant/reverse racist/narrow-minded
-- as well as one particularly baffling incident where a person private messaged me with a link to a dreadlocking comm (I know, I know) where a redhead with dreads showed off photos of her black kitten that she was going to name Kali. This person sent me the link because she thought I should see that for everyone who read my post and understood, there were still people who had "a hope that they share in a culture that they feel is richer and more raw and valid then their own". She gave me her e-mail address in case I wanted to discuss it with her.
I didn't. Oddly enough, I don't need random people sending me links to idiots to know that people still treat my religion/culture like crap.
Some of those people happen to be Indian.
I hate to talk about this publicly because inter-PoC discussions often get co-opted by racists (ask me how many times I've had to challenge people who say, "oh but black people had slavery in africa! oh but indian people have castes based on skin colour!"). But since the theme is intersectionality, I figure ( I might as well address it. )
