Published 08:31 IST, November 20th 2018

Can Twitter be a Socially neutral platform?

The CEO of Twitter obviously came to India on a PR visit to create goodwill for Twitter. However, his meeting with supposedly progressive women of India and a photograph of his showing him carrying a poster, “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” has left a bitter taste for Indians.

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CEO of Twitter obviously came to India on a PR visit to create goodwill for Twitter. However, his meeting with supposedly progressive women of India and a photograph of his showing him carrying a poster, “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” has left a bitter taste for Indians.

As a person who doesn’t kw much about complex plural enlightened civilization perennially flowing since more than 10000 years of documented history, it was his bounden duty to understand what kind of placard he was holding.

Women who handed him poster to hold saying “Destroy Brahminical patriarchy” too are trained with a western worldview and see everything Indian with same tinted glasses.

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Just as I write this small piece, Twitter India has come out with a blasé statement:

It is t a statement from Twitter or our CEO, but a tangible reflection of our company's efforts to see, hear and understand all sides of important public conversations that happen on our service around world. 

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If conversation was truly all sided, we could have seen some prominent n-Left or what is wrongly called ‘Right Wing’ faces in meeting. And, n this poster would surely t have found its way into Jack’s hands. poster would surely have t passed scrutiny of a large mass of Indian women who don’t look at Indian culture with same low self-esteem as women totally influenced by Biblical worldview passed off as a modern worldview. 

If this group was truly interested in fighting against patriarchy, y would have handed over at least 2-3 more posters asking Pope to allow women Bishops, demanded action against molesting clerics, t pardon and demanding Muslim women to be freed from ‘Nikah Halaala’. 

Jack may be unaware of Indian culture, but he surely is familiar with molestation cases of Christian clerics, and of poor treatment to women in Islam. He would be aware that women are considered inferior to men in Abrahamic religions. While Hindus are always reforming and reinventing ir religions with changing world, or major religions refuse to change. But, our Jack and his women’s team would never talk about it.

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Hindus have outgrown patriarchy and Brahmins are least vantd sections of population w. All of us have condemned Brahminical tyranny of birth-based caste system which was t re in earlier times. Even Brahmins have criticised this static view of 'Dharma' and most have willingly agreed to reservations as one of ways to undo past dam. 

inventor of 'sulabh shauchalay' is a Brahmin. As per a Rediff article of 2006, most of his employees are Brahmins. same article also claims that a large number of rickshaw pullers in Delhi and many people doing menial jobs are Brahmins. n, why this hatred? Is it because y were able to preserve 'shastras' and 'dharma' of Hindus even in worst gecides against Hindus especially Brahmin and refore, targets of hate of Communist left liberals? 

Is Jack aware that all major political parties, for long a period of time, were led by Brahmins, including venerable disaurs called  Communist Party. In fact, ‘progressive’ Congress is still led by a ‘janeudhari Brahmin’? Communists couldn’t find one Dalit to be member of ir politburo in 90 years.

women who me Jack hate figure seem to forget that Communists could get ir first woman politburo member after nearly 80 years, who happened to be wife of Secretary! So much for Brahminical patriarchy. Truth is, it is British who destroyed matrilineal societies in Kerala and rth East as y imported true patriarchy on back of organized Church that is a handmaiden of imperialism.

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Is Jack unaware of Neo-Left movement whose project is to magnify fault-lines of all societies to destabilise and break m up?

In name of ‘Cultural Studies',  institution of marri is targeted,  institution of family and all of humankind’s major stabilizing factors are ‘deconstructed’ and attacked as patriarchal etc. I suspect w, that Jack may be part of neo-left movement. 

I think this mindset is reason for banning, blocking or show banning of n-Left Twitter handles. y are t even considered fit to attend a meeting with CEO of Twitter who is supposed to have discussions with “all points of view”. At same time, same twitter allows hate filled gross obscene tweets of Left, NeoLeft and even Islamist tweets that demean Hindu society and 'Dharma'.

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It seems China was correct, after all, in banning Twitter and launching its own social media platform. Perhaps India too needs to do it, so social media becomes a level playing field in true sense and doesn’t become a biased tool of neo-Left and so-called liberal brige.

RE: As An Indian I Am Disappointed At Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's 'Smash Brahminical Patriarchy' Placard

08:03 IST, November 20th 2018