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When Conditional Solidarity Becomes Class Betrayal
When Conditional Solidarity Becomes Class Betrayal - How Removing Agency From Usha Vance Exposes the Slippage From Political Critique Into the Dehumanization of Indian Americans The difficult conversation Indian Americans must have is not optional: when communities normalize anti-Indian racism, they hand the white supremacist a double validation. That validation is social and political - it strengthens structural narratives that keep whole groups second-class. Too many on the Indian American left default to an easy, dismissive frame: if you don’t accept every Democratic orthodoxy, you are accused of “acting superior to other South Asians.” That smear flattens difference into a moral shortcut and refuses to account for class, caste, color, and political homelessness. Indian diaspora communities are heterogeneous — Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Sri Lankan, and more — and a majority describe themselves as politically homeless precisely because neither the Democratic establishmen...
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