Week 172: White Supremacist Rhetoric against Hindus, Modern Yoga, Aesthetic

04/01/2023 - Modern Hindu Content

Welcome to Eternal Path! This week we highlight: White Supremacist Rhetoric against Hindus, Modern Yoga and its Distortion of Hindu practice, and an Aesthetic!

Hinduphobia Highlight: White Supremacist Rhetoric Recycled Against Hindus

As we mentioned in last week’s issue, we are going to spend a lot more time in the upcoming weeks debunking Hinduphobic nonsense from so-called “anti-caste” activists. This is with an eye towards political rhetoric and laws targeting the Indian and Hindu communities with “caste” laws, like the ones in Seattle, Toronto, and the proposed law in the California assembly (put forth by Afghan Muslim lawmaker Aisha Wahab).

Most of our readers are American, and hence will be aware of the demonization of Jews that occurred throughout the West before World War 2. Rhetoric towards Brahmins in many parts of India, especially that of fake social reformers like EVR Naicker “Periyar” in Tamil Nadu resembles some of the worst anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Deepak Srinivasan @DeepakInsights

These are EV Ramasamy’s own words from Kudiarasu 20-3-1938. He compares Brahmins to the Jews of Nazi Germany. He has also repeatedly called for all Brahmins to be killed. EVR's Dravidian movement modeled itself after Italy's Black Shirts. This is who they have always been.

Naicker literally recycles anti-Semitic rhetoric for Brahmins, one snippet is provided below. For the English translation, visit this link.

For a higher quality Tamil version, visit this link. Anti-Semitism is a key component of many white supremacist worldviews, and similarly, many “anti-caste” activists literally have the same views on India history that white supremacists do!

Ranbir Singh @RanbirS11414092

1. Let us examine the racist common ground between supremacists and neonazis when it comes to India, and that of so-called Dalit acitivists. Because they actually believe the same stuff, just put a different spin on it.

Ranbir Singh @RanbirS11414092

2. David Duke, American nazi and leader of the KKK, in his book My Awakening: "Aryans, or Indo-Europeans (Caucasians) created the great Indian, or Hindu civilization. Aryans swept over the Himalayas to the Indian sub-continent and conquered the aboriginal people"

Ranbir Singh @RanbirS11414092

3. VT Rajashekar, The Black Untouchables of India,: The history of India is full of uprisings by the Dalits, Sudras and other natives of India against the Aryan invaders. The Buddha, a great tribal chieftain with an Afro hairstyle, 2,500 years ago was the first"

Genetic evidence, and the effusive praise toward dark-skinned Gods and Goddesses in Hindu texts (“Krishna” means “black” in Sanskrit, “Rama” is a cognate for a Sanskrit word for “night”) rubbishes ideas of “black untouchables”. But notice how “anti-caste” activists align so closely with white supremacists who claim all Indian civilization came from so-called “White Aryans”.

Hinduphobia Highlight: Distortions in Modern Yoga

Via Upword: “Yoga must be brought back to its rightful pedestal of being a stepping stone to Kaivalya or liberation.”

Aesthetic: Rajasthan Temple

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