Dr. Ayesha Ray 🪷
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So BBC is fake news. NYT is fake news. WaPo is fake news. TRT world is fake news. Al-Jazeera is fake news. All international media outlets reporting on Kashmir are apparently presenting fake news.
It seems a large number of Indians have turned into Donald Trump.
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I was equally critically of Riddhi Patel. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, however, gets away with the same fuckery because he’s not threatening violence against whites. He’s threatening brown Hindus with violence. Never forget the deep-seated racism of the West.
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I’m currently in the final stages of completing my book on female militants in South Asia and I can say with absolute confidence that there is no evidence in the India chapter of “32,000 women” being recruited into ISIS. It’s more like 8-10 and has nothing to do with love jihad!
This is not our story. Kerala story is one of religious tolerance and secularism.The film Kerala Story is yet another desperate attempt of sangh parivar to polarise society by propagating outright lies such as 32000 women have been recruited to ISIS through love jihad in Kerala.
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In Bangladesh, there’s an anti-Hindu pogrom happening.
Let’s be clear. That ain’t a revolution.
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I’m the daughter of a Colonel who served in Ladakh and the niece of General Arjun Ray, Brigadier General Staff, 15 Corps, Kashmir. Men who served India on the frontlines of war to keep you alive while you were pooping in your diapers.
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If you like the Taliban, get out of India. I don’t care who you are or how oppressed you are. Get out of my country.
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I’m scrolling down comments under
@BDUTT
’s post and I’m enraged. One of the most accomplished female journalists is being viciously attacked by Indians and Kashmiris for an opinion. And they are mostly men. Keep the misogyny coming, assholes. We like breaking misogynistic bones.
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Indians celebrating the utter chaos unfolding in Pakistan, you look like petty bigoted fools. Besides, an unstable Pakistan teetering from one crisis to another is bad for India. Do you all have any sense or not? Doubt it.
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RSS should have been banned the day Gandhi was murdered. 72 years later, it is still around and not just that, it has become mainstream. RSS has no business existing as an active organization in India. It should have been banned 72 years ago. It should be banned even today.
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No Indian PM has brought as much international disrepute to India as Narendra Modi. Something his followers, who include uneducated Neanderthals, violent misogynists, Bollywood superstars, and bootlicking journalists and “think tankers” in India and the US, will never tell you.
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I’ll be ruthlessly blocking any Indian who throws shit even mildly in praise of Trump on my timeline. Be warned.
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The first nation to reject the Taliban has a woman as its Prime Minister. Because all the men in power are incapacitated. Thank you, Mette Frederiksen.
@Statsmin
Thank you, Denmark. 🇩🇰 🇩🇰 🇩🇰
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PSA: Kashmiri men who love the Taliban and are following me. Unfollow me. Or get blocked. It’s that simple. I don’t play nice.
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Some white guy on the internet dislikes Indian food and everyone is up in arms. Why? It’s his loss. Let him stick with his boring white bread.
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Never leave your home country. Yes, you’ll grow wings, become independent, taste every culture, accomplish a lot, meet many different people, explore new horizons, have many adventures, but you’ll always be plagued by guilt. You’ll have to make peace with being homeless.
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The government of India needs to get its head out of its ass very soon. Shah Faesal’s father was murdered by militants in 2002. This is the man they have indefinitely detained and harrassed for over nine months and extended his illegal detention now. Are you fucking kidding me?
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I’m amused at all the people who are just discovering how nice Shah Rukh Khan is as a person.
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I am going to unfollow every goddamn Indian leftist on this platform who lives in the west, trashes western imperialism but conveniently runs to Trudeau to advance an agenda against India in support of militant secessionists.
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As a Hindu, an Indian, it destroys me to see the cesspool of bigotry India has turned into. I never experienced this hate growing up in Calcutta. My best friends from college are Indian Muslims. We could never imagine pulling each other down ever. We still believe in each other.
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This is pretty big news. A neo-Nazi group in Germany was planning to execute a major terrorist attack on October 3.
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Secularism: a) the separation of state and politics from religion. b) the ability to allow all religions to exist without any one religion imposing itself on the other.
Right-wing Hindus steeped in religious bigotry: please look at our secular credentials.
Is this a joke?
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When all of the nation’s reporters were asleep, it was
@BDUTT
who walked with India’s migrant laborers during a pandemic. It is possible for an individual to support a farmers movement and still call out misinformed views. Both things can be true.
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@mehdirhasan
Hindu nationalists adore their white nationalist friends. If they only knew how much the latter hates the color of their skin...
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A white man strangled a black homeless man with mental health issues to death on a NYC subway and has not been arrested yet. Unbelievable. Stop normalizing such crimes against poor homeless people by justifying it as some bold courageous act.
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Piss poor journalism on display by Indian journalists on the Howdy Modi event. Indian journalism is dead.
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2019. India. Imagine this.
A former “officer” of the Indian army, Major General SP Sinha, calls for the rape of Kashmiri women on television.
This man should be arrested. And the television channel that invited him should be permanently banned.
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Don’t forget this —
Arundhati Roy: Pakistan doesn’t wage war on its people.
Pakistan with its blasphemy laws: Let’s burn everyone alive!
Roy with all her wokeness wouldn’t survive a day there. Only India will allow her the space to talk shit.
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Hey India, next time try electing someone with a scientific temperament and sharp critical thinking skills.
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US Defense Secretary Austin “should underscore that the Modi government’s assault on free expression and its record of anti-Muslim discrimination are incompatible with a strong and sustainable partnership between the two countries.”
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Let it be known. I stand for India. Always will. Not its government, left, right, or center. It means defending the constitution it stood for at independence.
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“She’s a Leftist, a woman, a Muslim and a Kashmiri – it makes her positively radioactive.” And she’s from JNU. Keep up the good work,
@Shehla_Rashid
. This JNU alumna stands in solidarity with you. Critical spaces will not be surrendered to RSS.
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Lost two followers for saying fuck.
If you have a problem with profanity but not with misogyny, let me say it again.
FUCK!
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Right-wing men everywhere in the world have their right-wing women champions destroying everything that feminists do. We see you.
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2024 is the year you grow a spine and tell all your woke Gucci-wearing Marxist friends who support Hamas to fuck off.
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Brilliant observation
@monaeltahawy
. Everything including conversations on rebellion in the West are always sold in glamorous, civil, and sanctified paraphernalia. The moment things get ugly, they get uncomfortable.
Glory & power to the women & girls in Iran who have seized the narrative & become object and subject in a feminist revolution they began & which they propel.
They are heroes, yes. But look at Time magazine (L) impose politeness on their revolution (R). Revolutions are not polite
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Some professional news: I’m delighted to announce I’ve signed a book contract with Lynne Rienner Publishers for my book, Female Militants in South Asia. Rienner has a strong record of publishing some of the best books on security and terrorism. Tentative publication: early 2024.
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My neighbor in her early 60s who lives alone was craving Indian food and drove to one of the restaurants 20 miles away. It was closed. She got the hours mixed up. I told her she need not go there when she has me. I’m going to cook her a grand meal soon. She’s over the moon.
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For the RECORD,
@nytimes
, it was
@praveenswami
who broke this news FIRST. He is THE expert on terrorism in South Asia, FYI. So, don't steal stuff. Because stealing is a privilege only the West gets away with.
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Warning. All Taliban-adoring Leninists will be blocked moving forward. I don’t have the time to educate or be nice to men or women with zero fucking grasp of regional politics and who will get women slaughtered.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday making out with the Taliban.
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Is it just me or has the Indian media totally stopped reporting on Kashmir for the last two days? I do see talk of apples and investment, though, over the incarcerated and tortured bodies of Kashmiris...
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Instead of defending the lives of Kashmiri civilians, Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat, shockingly suggests in this report, that anyone talking about the lockdown is a potential terrorist. So now we are all terrorists. How low the Indian army has fallen!
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Close to 40 days since the autonomy of Kashmir was stolen and the people were subsequently humiliated, beaten, imprisoned, and shamed, I, an Indian, opposed to the actions, have been called:
Pakistani agent
Daughter of Jihadi
Prostitute
Terror agent
Now think of Kashmiris.
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One week into India’s horrific covid crisis and many of us with family and friends there have aged by a decade. Wonder how we are going to get through the next few months.
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Moscow has said it can supply India with 300,000-400,000 Remdesivir injections per week. In addition to oxygen.
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I just heard from a friend in Kashmir. He said they can cry but cannot speak. Think about the meaning of those heartbreaking words. He also said a serious mental health crisis is evolving.
Shame on India!
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US now coordinating with the Taliban to push back against IS-K. That didn’t take long. Can’t make up this shit.
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This is called the art of deflection. I don’t know of any intellectual who has justified militancy. I also don’t know of any intellectual who has called militants freedom fighters. But apparently upholding rights and expecting basic decency from fellow Indians is now a crime.
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How many more temples do Hindus need? There is a temple on every street, on every road, at every turn. A million temples has not produced one secure Hindu. Quite the opposite.
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I’m deeply disturbed to hear Delhi police seizing
@svaradarajan
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@thewire_in
apologized. Siddharth is an outstanding journalist. This sounds like a politically motivated attack.
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Can someone explain to me why the international media is giving a platform to the Taliban? Calling them for interviews? Trying to figure out who and what they are in Kabul? It’s a UNSC designated terrorist group even while the UN sleeps…but I digress…
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Since a lot of Indians will engage in willful lies and whataboutery over the shocking footage of two men being killed in cold blood, let me just say this:
When you utter the words “Jai Shri Ram” to murder and score a political point, that makes you a TERRORIST.
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@TerryGlavin
Quite an accurate piece for those who know their facts and are not busy pursuing their partisan agendas. Thank you for writing this. I’m completely baffled by such a serious allegation without any accompanying evidence.
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@AudreyTruschke
You should notify your state FBI office with the information, names of handles, etc. This cannot stand.
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Look at the chilling path Indian “democracy” is on. How fragile it must be to be so terrified of a strong, articulate woman. That she is from JNU is also part of its insidious agenda of destroying the university and all critical thought.
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Kavanaugh: “my family has been destroyed by this.”
Ford: “my family is doing fine considering the circumstances.”
Raise that glass to strong women. 💪🏼
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“Across the Kashmir Valley, women have been anxiously waiting outside police stations for their turn to meet family members who have been detained. Some have learned that their kin have been moved to jails outside Kashmir.”
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Again, I don’t understand why utter nonsense like this is published. So Indians can gloat over how great they are while preventing millions of Kashmiris from speaking to their loved ones? Pakistan has plenty to answer for but THIS is on India. FFS.
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My father tells me that Islamophobia in India has turned into an epidemic gaining traction especially on WhatsApp. His threshold for bullshit is low just like mine. If anyone forwards him a bigoted meme or message, he tells that person to fuck off and blocks them instantly.
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“They killed her. She was a devout Muslim.” Devastating story.
A must-watch. Hamid Abu Ar'ar lost his wife, Fatma, when Hamas terrorists shot her during the October 7 massacres. He's an Israeli Arab, and he speaks here about the courageous decision he made during the gunfire, holding his baby boy. Share this.
@Horizon_lately
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Nijjar or no Nijjar, Modi or no Modi, from an Indian national security perspective, it’s absolutely shocking that America and Canada are actively promoting, encouraging, and funding Indian separatists to break India.
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I topped my X and XII Board exams too. Did it add to my repository of knowledge? No. The Indian education system, with maybe the exception of JNU, doesn’t impart critical thinking skills. It was mostly a rigorous American PhD program and a rigorous advisor that unlocked my brain.
By & large, past Board toppers have good lives. But looking back, many feel school education did not provide the foundation it claims to deliver.
We conclude our series (Tracking India's Toppers 🎓👩🎓) by asking what they think of school several yrs after graduation
🧵 (1/n)
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This is a complete misreading of
@BDUTT
's piece. If Wani and Musa become the face of Kashmir's liberation struggle, god help the Kashmiris.
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If you support Palestinians know this: Hamas has done irreparable damage to the lives of Palestinians. They know their actions will unleash unimaginable harm. If you’re celebrating this moment, perhaps you should rethink how much of it is about your ideology and not Palestine?
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Remember, those asking for civility:
1. Are conveniently ignoring the cause of the problem.
2. Will not be around to save you when the fascists come for you.
3. Are doing Trump’s job to help him win in 2020 by telling you to be tolerant of misogyny and white supremacy.
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Fantastic stuff from
@BDUTT
on extreme self-indulgence, white privilege, and discrimination. Bravo!
Columnist Barkha Dutt says it's maddening to see Americans reject vaccines.
“When I sit in Delhi and I look at what's going on in the US, where hesitancy...is a very polite, understated word to describe extreme self-indulgence and spoiled behavior...it just makes my blood boil.”
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I’ve JNU in my profile. That’s enough to give the Hindutva population a rapid meltdown. Their threats are not innocuous. I’ve witnessed, myself, RSS, Bajrang Dal, and VHP mobs with clubs and rods trying to break JNU gates with only one intent — murder; the nation playing along.
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Just when I’m a bit down with political news, I receive worthy professional news. The Committee on Senior Promotion has deliberated and recommended I be promoted to the rank of Professor! I’m grateful to my wonderful colleagues who have consistently advocated for me. 💫 💫 💫
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Some white women have made a living out of decolonizing India while teaching Indian women how to think about India. The talking down. The unfollowing when you have a contrary opinion is strong. Truschke and her western cohort are good examples of delusional white feminists.
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Sikhs will always rise up to the occasion. 💜
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@rajwilkhu
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Much of this could have been controlled with smart planning, early preparation, careful management, spreading awareness, and banning mass gatherings. My heart just bleeds to witness the consequences of utter negligence...
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Think about it. Thousands of Indian Americans who are minorities in this country will attend an event celebrating two supremacists. The same Indians are part of India’s current Hindu majoritarian project that believes in incarcerating and humiliating millions of Kashmiris.
Trump will appear with Indian PM Narendra Modi at next Sunday’s “Howdy, Modi” event at NRG Stadium in Houston, which is expected to be attended by tens of thousands, the White House has announced.
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India needs to open up vaccine distribution to all ages. Now!
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I wonder how Indians who usually whine daily about maids not showing up, about open potholes on the streets, about poor restaurant services, about generally everything under the sun, would react if they were locked up for a month in their own states for no crime of theirs?
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The case of the Indian government harassing
@AatishTaseer
is one of pure vendetta not to mention the glaring misogyny. A single mother, an Indian, who is the only legal guardian, is apparently not good enough to be considered a parent. This is outrageous and and total bullshit.
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Absolutely, yes. All of this. Nothing short of a full on-offensive will do.👇🏽
Mention the rape.
Mock and ridicule him.
Call him a puppet.
Call him weird
Don't let him interrupt you.
My five bits of unsolicited advice for
@KamalaHarris
on how to get under Donald Trump's skin on the debate stage on Tuesday night.
Watch/subscribe:
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🎯 🎯 🎯
Dear Dems: The Gaslighting Isn’t Helping Matters
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Today I spoke to my Political Science students about the lockdown in Kashmir entering its 52nd day.
They were horrified.
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I’m thinking of all the minority scholars and faculty at Harvard with Ph.Ds on the tenure track, breaking their backs to get tenure against all odds. And then comes a journalist from India appointed as Associate Professor with none of the comparable qualifications. Sickening.
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I’d like to share with everyone a long thread on bigotry, misogyny, and social media censorship in dangerous times. It reads like a blog post or short essay. Do share widely so female academics, activists, and journalists working on contentious subjects don’t feel alone. 1/
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When your Jewish friends and neighbors in America tell you repeatedly that antisemitism is real, that they don’t feel safe, maybe just listen and believe them instead of bullying them to show how woke you are?
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Imagine the atrocity. You are picked up at night under an arbitrary law and silently transported to a prison in a totally different city without knowing why. And then you hear the people of a nation tell you it’s for your own good.
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You must be naive to think that standing with Muslims in Egypt for a photo op is how Modi and his cohorts feel about Indian Muslims. Sure, genocide may be a hyperbolic term, but any sentient person cannot ignore the violence inflicted on the lives of Muslims by his supporters.
Indian Muslims and Modi (in Egypt)!
I wish people would stop making claims about a genocide of Muslims taking place in India (without even visiting India once).
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I’ll break my self-imposed silence for a second to say that: 1. Assange was arrested for hacking. That’s not journalism. That’s a breach of security. 2. He compromised the 2016 elections by smearing Clinton. He’s why we have Trump. 3. He’s also an accused rapist. The end.
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Exciting news! I’ve been informed I’m the recipient of this year’s annual award for Faculty Excellence at my college! Gratitude to my students and colleagues for their incredible support over the years. I look forward to acknowledging the award at commencement celebrations!
💐👩🏽🎓
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What in the fresh hell is this? Ro Khanna, please learn more about this man before tweeting. He is an uncouth bigoted vile misogynistic neanderthal. Please. You cannot be a progressive and encourage such folks, for heaven’s sake! What is even happening here?
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I’m a feminist. The silence around this or worse, justifications for it by western feminists as “resistance”, no less, will never be forgotten.
#ShaniLouk
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Has the UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting yet? Every hour, minute, counts. 🤷🏽♀️
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After three hours of cooking, I present Bengali mangsho (mutton) made by me.
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