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For the Indian Express (
@IndianExpress
),
@Anupam_Guha
and I write about the Karnataka government's draft bill for gig workers' welfare and what it could mean for the evolving legal landscape of gig work in India.
Recently, Karnataka released to the public a draft of a bill for platform based gig workers. This bill is a significant improvement over anything India has till now
So
@yxmeena
and I wrote a short piece for
@IndianExpress
examining this
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Just heard that Delhi University has barred 2 students from taking exams for a whole year, and imposed "less strict" disciplinary action against 6 others, for screening the BBC documentary on Modi. We should all be more worried and angry about this.
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This syllabus change made me realise how many people don't understand what history is. Like I promise none of us want the history of the Mughal Empire taught to students because we *like* the emperors, but because you can't understand the subcontinent's present without its past.
gupta/delhi sultanate/vijayanagar/mughals all were feudal systems with stark inequalities pls stop doing good king bad king lmao
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Pedro Pascal as various editions of the Communist Manifesto (because someone had to do it) 🧵
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I personally think people should talk more about piracy. Ask your friends what websites they've been using lately, suggest new ones with better collections, teach each other how to upload, download and convert these books. Especially if you're in the 'global south.'
The confidence with which people talk about stealing ebooks on this very public website is wild. Piracy is theft. Theft is not victimless crime. You are stealing authors’ hard work and intellectual property. If authors can’t make a living, we can’t create the stories you enjoy.
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In the 3 years that I was an undergrad in Delhi University, I was taught almost entirely by ad hoc professors. I saw their dedication and care, but I also saw their precarity. The culture of ad hoc jobs in Indian academia is outrageous and unsustainable.
8 of the 10 ad hoc professors of the English Department of Ramjas displaced at once. we've seen our professors suffer the injustices of this regime, helpless and powerless, a phenomenon that continues until the university is clad in but one colour.
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A good day to remember this badass banner used by Indian communists to protest Kissinger's arrival in India in '74, just over a year after the coup in Chile.
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I hope Indian progressives and leftists, in their righteous anger at the notification of the Citizenship Ammendment Act, don't forget that the real threat is not one posed by working class immigrants but by the fascist state embedding religious exceptions in the immigration law.
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Writing my first thesis chapter, and my twitter bookmarks are proving to be more useful than Zotero. I don't know what that says about me, or my research skills.
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TN announced 12 hr workday in factories. Now it looks like this was the result of lobbying by Apple + manufacturer Foxconn, which in Nov '22 was already working with TN gov to increase production and has successfully lobbied for a similar amendment in Karnataka.
TN Assembly passes Bill extending daily work hours from 8 to 12 for factory workers
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I support Bulbul Jauhari's rights but more importantly, I support her wrongs.
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This is a reminder to my friends in India and beyond that I have institutional access to academic publications (and some news archives) for maybe one more year. So please feel free to reach out if you hit a paywall you can't jump over.
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The lasting damage that Congress and the INTUC did to India's labour movement after independence can not be overstated.
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This
@MovementYVR
sticker is giving me moral support as I wait patiently for a bus, literally ANY bus that goes down Hastings, to make its way through the weekend traffic and to the stop I've been at for 15 mins.
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If Edward Said were here today, I think he would have been proud of the brave students of Columbia, and disappointed in some of his colleagues.
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You can't talk about the Revolt of 1857 without talking about the Mughals. And you can't teach the history of India's independence without teaching students about the Revolt.
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The misogynistic and reactionary targeting of Fatima following her important investigative reporting is absolutely reprehensible. Muslim women in India are subjected to more than enough gendered Islamophobia, solidarity from the community should not be such a difficult ask.
The report has explicitly, in so many words, detailed the slew of propaganda and hate targeting Muslim women/fetishising them/selling them online- including Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai (both of which I was targeted in). So maybe don’t tell me I “don’t know how Hindutva works”?
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Wise words from comrade flip flop.
years ago, twitter offered Sandal a blue checkmark just for being so great.
He simply hissed at them.
"No, comrade," he said. "If none of us are 'notable,' all of us are notable. Chaos reigns."
words of wisdom? or the deranged high ravings of a boy lost to catnip? you decide.
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Coming to the slow realisation that criticality and all aside I will always be hopelessly in love with the terrible terrible city that is Delhi.
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I've been trying and failing to say something about the rapidly deteriorating communal situation across India in the past week. But every time I think of it, I have nothing sharp to say, merely a sense of helplessness and fear for my family and other Muslims in the country.
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Menswear guy has read Bourdieu. Huge day for insufferable sociology majors (me).
In his book Distinction, Pierre Bourdieu notes that the notion of Good Taste is nothing more than the preferences and habits of the ruling class. In American culture, this class is represented by the likes of William Buckley and George Plimpton.
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Can't help but think that UGC-NET is another way to enforce disciplinary boundaries. My research and interests most closely align with Sociology. But I will have to give the Mass Comm and Journ. exam just because my (interdisciplinary) MA prog is called Communication.
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All major Indian trade unions calling on the government to stop trade with Israel is huge! But as a side note, the Herald (incorrectly) calls the Hind Mazdoor Sabha "BJP-affiliated". Goes to show how little mainstream media seems to know about contemporary unions.
THIS IS HUGE! All major Indian trade unions, CITU, AITUC, INTUC and HMS representing over 100m workers, have called on Indian government to scrap agreements with Israel, appealing to workers to boycott Israeli products and to refuse to handle Israeli cargo
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Shocked and appalled that I have to "write" my thesis now that I'm done with data collection???
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Watching these videos when they go viral is horrifying, but what is even more horrifying is the fact that most of us who were/are students in these colleges have been subjected to this for years and at this point, we associate fests with harassment, rather than any form of joy.
Today, IPCW's fest was going when drunk men climbed the walls, forcefully entered the campus and harrassed Gender minorities.
Men were chanting "Miranda IP dono hamara" ,"Miranda nahi chhoda to IP bhi nahi chhodenge"
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The Barbie movie is truly a product of the times we live in. Empty, shallow and a poor pastiche of every movement that aims to critique the social and material conditions of our epoch.
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Me, hearing all the anti-union discourse in Vancouver due to the stoppage of the west coast express: 🤬
Me, seeing an orange, labour researcher cat on the news : 🥹
Professional achievement unlocked: having my cat join me on national news as I comment on the current national rail lockout in Canada 🐱
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This is what policing of working class people always comes down to - protection of private property. Domestic workers and drivers are only tolerated in these gated colonies for as long as they can be exploited, but as soon as they take a moment of leisure they become threats.
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There is a reason we call them fat cats.
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I have come to the conclusion that the one person doing actual anti fascist praxis in the Indian mainstream is Dhruv Rathee.
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The bosses at Roger's Sugar need to stop pretending that they don't need their workers. Come back to the bargaining table and give your striking workers the contract they deserve!
@SugarStrike2023
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This is extremely significant, considering the arms trade taking place between "Israel" and India right now.
BREAKING: Effective Immediately. The Water Transport Workers Federation of India representing workers at 11 major Indian ports will refuse to load or unload weapons to Israel. This is in solidarity with a call by Palestinian trade unions. India sends $7bn in arms to Israel a year
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People are (rightfully) concerned about the AQI in the east coast, but all I can think about is how the rest of us in South and Southeast Asia have been subjected to extremely harmful levels of PM2.5 for years and have not received even quarter of this kind of attention + concern
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In solidarity with the Rogers Sugar workers (
@SugarStrike2023
) on strike for a fair contract! ✊ As
@TSSU
members who just reached a tentative agreement today after weeks of work stoppage and picketing in the rain we understand that strikes works and scabs suck!!
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Talking to
@Anupam_Guha
about this and realised that he didn't know about the mango soaking in water tradition. Did my family make it up or are other desis also soaking their mangoes???
My local Indian grocery store only had kesar in stock... or so I thought, until I saw these two uncles walking out from the back with full BOXES of Alphonso. I don't even like Alphonso but I want to be part of this elite clientele who get access to the nicer mangoes.
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Every
#IWD
, I can't help but think about how its cooption by bourgeois forces has delinked it from its radical demands. It reminds me of Kollontai's warnings in the The Social Basis of the Woman Question about seeking "equality in the framework of the existing class society"
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First (only? last?) email from Miranda which didn't make me want to bang my head against a wall. Too bad I can't attend the ceremony :(
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As a TA, I now run my tutorials with the assumption that not even 1/3rd of the students have gone through the assigned readings for the week. It results in me often overworking but I'm also deeply sympathetic to my students who take on avg 5 courses a semester and have 2-3 jobs.
@pourfairelevide
@hadeejasouffle
With 3 other courses you end up having around 600 pages of reading to get through a week, plus weekly submissions and essays. You end up not even trying to read the material because there's no way to get through it. You end up just relying on summaries and external resources
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My 12th grade history teacher, a former uni prof, forced us to learn Chicago Manual and made us write out our citations and bibliography by hand for our final project and after all these years I'm still not sure if that was the best or worst thing to happen to me academically.
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If you're boycotting Indigo in Vancouver, I highly recommend going to
@MassyBooks
instead. It's an indigenous, woman-owned bookstore that vocally supports Palestinian liberation, always has an amazing collection AND the best staff!
Boycott Indigo Books
Picket at Robson location in Vancouver
Protesting occupation and genocide is not a hate crime
#FreePalestine
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So this is what lawyers and policy wonks at Vidhi tell themselves while trying to go to sleep at night? That they're "doing good" by collaborating with fascists writing the UCC and Muslims being victimized by the regime just have an impoverished idea of what good is?
The fact that you cannot see our commitment to doing good is only a sign of how impoverished your idea of the good is.
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I understand the wariness, given that outrage is determined by social factors, but it is very much about her being a doctor who was victimized at her workplace. She was in that room because the hospital did not provide a safe place to rest between shifts.
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This "rapid bus" is going to be my villian origin story!!!
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@palashtalks
I am impressed by the fact that you know boomers who have work-life balance because none that I know do.
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Internal documents prove what we already knew:
@SFU
hired private investigators to break the
@TSSU
strike; we were constantly surveilled, and the contract was only terminated when Indigenous faculty allies raised concerns about past harms done by Lions Gate.
Last year, SFU hired private investigators to secretly watch striking workers, most of them teaching assistants. We got hundreds of pages of documents showing why they did it, and revealing the extent of the surveillance.
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Following my father's passing this summer, I have thought a lot about death, grief and the process of grieving. I can only find beauty and hope in the way Yechury alongside his family and comrades planned and executed what would happen to his body after his passing.
Comrade Sitaram Yechury's body was brought to Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he had been Students' Union President.
At JNU, his comrades in struggle, friends, academics, and student leaders, among others, turned out in large numbers to mourn his passing and honour his
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A (shorter) version of the piece
@Anupam_Guha
and I wrote on the Karnataka government's new draft bill for gig workers has been published in print by
@IndianExpress
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For the Indian Express (
@IndianExpress
),
@Anupam_Guha
and I write about the Karnataka government's draft bill for gig workers' welfare and what it could mean for the evolving legal landscape of gig work in India.
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Completely unsurprised to hear that the owner of
@Olacabs
agrees with Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week idea. The gig economy depends on levels of overwork which would otherwise be illegal in a "traditional" employment relationship.
Rishi Sunak's father in law, founder of Infosys, wants a 70-hour work week, and the boss of
@Olacabs
agrees. Is it safe to drive 70+ hours per week?
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So
@SFU
the "engaged" university is now engaging in heavy handed strike busting by cutting off healthcare benefits of
@TSSU
members, including international students. This is in retaliation to less than 3 days of striking which included an overtime ban and 10 min teach-ins.
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Okay tbh, this was initially tweeted as a joke, but I think we in India need to realise the importance of accessible pedagogical content for mass consumption.
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The issue shouldn't be with the fact that Ashoka has intl. faculty members. What we should probably be more concerned about is that private liberal arts colleges in India have application processes that are built to exclude Indian PhDs from public universities.
I'm slightly confused / alarmed at the make up of the faculty of Philosophy Dept at Ashoka Univ. - In India.
Can someone explain please?
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If you're in the lower mainland this holiday season, remember to show solidarity to striking hospitality workers (
@UniteHere40
) and sugar workers (
@SugarStrike2023
) who are bravely weathering the winter and their disgraceful employers.
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Meeting comrade Reginald Striker at the Rogers picket line was an absolute honor.
Here's a story about a sugar refinery strike that involves Coca-Cola, your neighbourhood bakery, Costco, a guy who may be living in a factory and a semi-domesticated Canada goose named Reginald Striker.
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Does
@dieworkwear
know about the ostentatious Ambani wedding? One can only hope he blesses us with a thread about the terrible fashion decisions of Asia's richest family.
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TSSU contract committee member leaves the mediation room after 3 days and expresses surprise at seeing birds.
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In solidarity with all the ad-hoc professors displaced from IP college's sociology dept. The fascistic attack on public education in India continues and it disproportionately impacts precariously employed teachers.
If you are still expressing shock at what happened in IP College, you are really living under a rock. Just check out the profiles of the people who have been recruited. We had no chance. This was never about merit anyway.
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This is horrifying and deeply angering. I watched that episode thinking it was created in consultation with
@YashicaDutt
since it very clearly adapts key aspects of her book but turns out her story was appropriated without consultation or even permission.
The past few days have been overwhelming. I continue to support
@ghaywan
’s excellent work, now with Made in Heaven and earlier with Geeli Pucchi on Netflix. But this needs to be said.
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The path of airport privatization that the India is going down is not paved with good intentions. Joint public-private ventures like DIAL will always prioritise surveillance infrastructure over basic structural integrity of buildings.
Terminal 1 roof collapses at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport following rain. 3 learnt to be dead.
Departures at T1 suspended. Check in counters closed for safety measure.
The expanded departure section of T1 (where the images are from) was inaugurated by the PM in
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I know this is coming from a good place, but there are a few important things to consider here: firstly, most newer hires don't have permanent jobs and benefits. Second, gov teachers are made to do a multitude of tasks beyond teaching, including election related work +
Govt school teacher's salaries need to be reduced drastically
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Daftar is such a nice word, we don't use it often enough anymore. Now every morning I shall announce to my empty house that I'm "going to the daftar with my attaché."
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Proud to be part of the 1000s of Research Assistants at SFU who have filed union cards to officially join
@TSSU
in the eyes of the BC LRB. SFU had "voluntarily recognised" the union in 2019 and has since violated the agreement. We are now one step closer to a fair contract!
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So does this mean the Jacobin will have to commission another obituary for Chomsky? Since they clearly published the one from Chibber that was sitting in their obituary vault.
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The visuals of flooding across North India are extremely concerning, and it gets worse each monsoon. One of the best environmental journalism pieces I recently read is by
@gayathriv
who explains how excess rainfall is tied to the Indian Ocean warming + bad forecasting models.
Some documentation of CP flooding, and as the paan wale bhaiya said it hasn’t been this bad in 19 years.
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Amazing things are happening in India right now. Second micro(?) celebrity has mysteriously resurrected 24 hrs after they "died." Jesus is envious, it took him a whole 3 days.
Wow, so
#PoonamPandey
is alive. A friend of mine told me in private last night that this is a campaign by a digital agency, but I was skeptical. Because could we really fall this low? Looks like we have.
So many things wrong with this.
#Thread
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4th graders in Hindi elocution competitions over-enunstiating the words:
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So
@SFU
which claims it doesn't have enough money to pay its
@TSSU
workers a living wage hired an infamous PI company known for working with Kinder Morgan and targeting indigenous land defenders to surveil us at the picket line.
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Picketing is hard and stressful but also surprisingly good for my sleep schedule. I'm waking up at 5 am, going to sleep at 11 pm, getting my steps in, smelling the crisp fall air and the beautiful trees changing colours on Burnaby mountain.
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Striking is working! We got SFU to withdraw ALL concessions. Work stoppage continues and pickets will go back up on Friday at the Vancouver campus.
🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE🚨
There will be NO picket lines at SFU Burnaby or any campus tomorrow, Oct. 5.
TSSU's bargaining team fought hard on the eve of convocation to force SFU to withdraw major concessions.
We are STILL ON STRIKE. Pickets resume Friday.
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Third, this is just a bad take for a leftist. We will never build solidarities between workers with hot takes about how some workers should be paid less. It's much more productive and pragmatic to ask for everyone else to receive similar pay, benefits and job security.
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The priorities of the Indian liberal elite in the face of fascism continue to be warped.
Interesting nugget. Have just been reliably informed that I am actually the FIRST Indian Rhodes Scholar to be a candidate to Parliament , as M.L. Sondhi, Jana Sangh MP, who received the Rhodes scholarship in 1956 did not actually take it, preferring to join the IFS. SUCH an
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This vision of parks without people, existing solely for the beautification of a city which is the hub of neoliberalism in India really says something about the urban imaginaries of the State.
I am very curious to know what these people think parks are meant for.
'Couples can't get too close, food not allowed, photos/videos banned, can't play sport or climb tree' - what is left?
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And here we see
@SFU
prompting students to cross the
@TSSU
picket line. Well jokes on them, undergrads at SFU not only respected our line but joined us!
Amazing to think this semester is almost over! Lots of study options available including this area
@sfusurrey
.
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If you're coming to SFU's Burnaby campus this week, please be aware that there are picket lines every day all day!!
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Always wondered what others around India eat on Eid, other than the usual sevai and sheer, etc.? My family is big on dahi vada, kabuli chana and yakhni pulao (no biryani, very disappointingly).
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So SFU is giving $5400 to "eligible" PhDs in the wake of a strike by
@TSSU
's teaching support staff, a unionisation drive of RAs, and the Graduate Student Society's COLA campaign. But we see this move for what it is: a transparent, divisive tactic which ignores structural issues.
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