Vikram’s Talking Points

Given all the commotion about James Watson’s racist statements on African "intelligence," I wondered whether any supremacist Indian Hindus could claim to be fellow travellers of the "race realist" white guys. Varna, where people are separated at birth by alleged "innate" strengths and weaknesses, would seem to provide just the right "theory" for the upper-caste whackos amidst us, so I googled around. It didn’t take too long to come across this guy, lol:

I am a Hindu Brahmin from South India (The ‘highest’ caste in the Hindu system). I belong to the R1a1 haplogroup. The geneographic project traced my origin to Central Asia (Ukraine or thereabouts). I am surprised to see so many Slavs and Ashkenazi Levite folks also to be of the same group. I assume our ancestors were Central Asians who went separate ways and religions. I would be interested in knowing if anybody has more information along this line.

Is there anyway if we can test whether our maternal lines are also similar??

Finally about IQ. I read that Ashkenazi Levites have the highest average IQ in the world. It is a given fact that Brahmins have the highest IQ in India (though this group has not be tested on an average basis to compare to worldwide statistics) and Brahmins also do well in academics in India, USA etc. Do you think this is something to do with the R1a1 haplogroup?

Family Tree DNA

At the end of the conversation, some white guy shut the fool up.

Now, if you’re going to employ racist logic, you’d think these pudgy Indian bufoons would dehumanize the white guys, right? After all, they were the ones who colonized and enslaved them for so long. Instead, they pick on the one black guy on the Australian team. Oh ye Hindus, make no mistake, shudras ye are in the global caste system, no matter what airs you might have about being superior to others. Poor Indian team - they’re going to get their asses sledged in Australia.  

India makes monkey of racist row

Do we see the moral police lift one finger when Dalits are treated worse than dogs? Do we see them protesting against the female foetacide and infintacide [sic] and abortions? Do they do anything about the corruption in the police and judicial systems? Do they stand up for any travesty of justice? Did they stand up against the Nithari child killers? No! Why? Because it has nothing to do with their agenda. Their agenda is to bring everyone in line with their ideologies. (link)

Shall we add child prostitution to the list? In a society where chastity is considered a supreme–and absolutely necessary–virtue, isn’t it a shame that so many young girl children are hauled off to brothels to serve the upstanding men of India?

Thanks, blogbharti.

You have to love Mayavati, the Dalit school teacher tough enough to thrive in the circumambient thuggery of the Uttar Pradesh political scene. Her Bahujan Samaj party resoundingly thumped its competition in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election yesterday. In particular, her recruitment of Brahmins seems to have decimated the BJP vote base, and deservedly so, given that the saffronites were as incendiary in their tactics as ever, releasing an anti-Muslim CD-ROM that can only be described as hate speech. The erstwhile ruler, the Samajwadi party, was equally suspect and "communal" when it endorsed one of its minister’s bounty offers on the head of the Danish cartoonist who messed with Muhammed, besides which it really sucked at governance, giving thugs, low-lifes and assorted factions of organized crime carte blanche to menace the state any way they saw fit.

Many Brahmins will get portfolios in Mayavati’s government, but unlike Congress coalitions, which patronizingly co-opted  "lower" castes into an essentially "upper" caste power structure, this one will be run by a Dalit party.

In a way it’s a revolution; in a way it’s not, for caste remains the paramount organizing principle in Indian politics - indeed, Indian society -  and those who can temporarily cobble together disparate groups will win elections.