PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23212
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Down With YFEs Vicious Casteist Abuse Against The Oppressed! .
For the past two weeks, the entire student community has been engaged in a struggle against the JNU administrations callousness and insensitivity in refusing to provide basic heath facilities in the campus, even after the deaths of Aishwary Agarwal and Dr. Sarpuddeen. We are right now in the midst of a JNUSU-led struggle for better health facilities and a 24x7 health centre. We are also gearing ourselves for fresh onslaughts on our fundamental right for basic facilities on campus, as the MHRD directs all universities to cut unnecessary expenditure and generate their own funds through massive fee hikes, user charges for basic services and cuts in subsidies. .
While the students in JNU are engaged in a struggle demanding basic health facilities on campus, the Youth for (In)Equality is shamefully but predictably not just keeping well away from the struggle, but actively working on spreading its racist and casteist agenda. In one of the most shamefully casteist posters that JNU has ever seen, the YFE yesterday heaped scorn and vicious insults on those toiling masses on whose exploitation, and sweat and blood our entire economy has rested for centuries together, right to this day. YFEs poster yesterday talked of the classic ant and grasshopper story, where the toiling ant painstakingly works to secure its basic needs while the grasshopper wiles away its time in leisure. Then, according to YFE, the grasshopper forcibly and greedily grabs away what rightfully belongs to the ant. The YFE goes on to tell us that those who avail of caste-based reservations, i.e. the grasshoppers, are lazy and greedy thieves who subsist on the labour of others. .
Through this blatantly casteist poster, the YFE has yet again shown its true character its sheer scorn for the deprived and backward castes who have been exploited socially and economically for centuries together by the oppressive Brahminical order, and its repeated attempts to turn facts on their heads in trying to project the real oppressor as the abject oppressed! .
-Cherabanda Raju .
Those who have essentially built the very world we live in through their labour -in return for which they are allowed to merely eke out a miserable living, just enough to keep them alive and fit for continuing their thankless labour -are precisely those who belong to the so-called lower castes of the Brahminical order. Turning this brutal socio-economic reality upside down, YFE would have us believe just the opposite! It is highly shameful and condemnable that in a socially-sensitive campus like JNU, YFE is attempting to insult the most fundamental and basic comprehension of Indian society that our academics and our collective experience have together moulded. It is easier to enslave a people who are made to lose their ability to understand the very nature of their oppression. It is precisely with this game plan in mind that the YFE is shamefully and cynically upturning the very facts on which we base our understanding. We warn the casteist forces embodied by the YFE that the JNU community will never tolerate their casteist tactics and racist rhetoric. We would like to remind the YFE, who are today yelling themselves hoarse against caste-based reservations, .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23212
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Down With YFEs Vicious Casteist Abuse Against The Oppressed! .
For the past two weeks, the entire student community has been engaged in a struggle against the JNU administrations callousness and insensitivity in refusing to provide basic heath facilities in the campus, even after the deaths of Aishwary Agarwal and Dr. Sarpuddeen. We are right now in the midst of a JNUSU-led struggle for better health facilities and a 24x7 health centre. We are also gearing ourselves for fresh onslaughts on our fundamental right for basic facilities on campus, as the MHRD directs all universities to cut unnecessary expenditure and generate their own funds through massive fee hikes, user charges for basic services and cuts in subsidies. .
While the students in JNU are engaged in a struggle demanding basic health facilities on campus, the Youth for (In)Equality is shamefully but predictably not just keeping well away from the struggle, but actively working on spreading its racist and casteist agenda. In one of the most shamefully casteist posters that JNU has ever seen, the YFE yesterday heaped scorn and vicious insults on those toiling masses on whose exploitation, and sweat and blood our entire economy has rested for centuries together, right to this day. YFEs poster yesterday talked of the classic ant and grasshopper story, where the toiling ant painstakingly works to secure its basic needs while the grasshopper wiles away its time in leisure. Then, according to YFE, the grasshopper forcibly and greedily grabs away what rightfully belongs to the ant. The YFE goes on to tell us that those who avail of caste-based reservations, i.e. the grasshoppers, are lazy and greedy thieves who subsist on the labour of others. .
Through this blatantly casteist poster, the YFE has yet again shown its true character its sheer scorn for the deprived and backward castes who have been exploited socially and economically for centuries together by the oppressive Brahminical order, and its repeated attempts to turn facts on their heads in trying to project the real oppressor as the abject oppressed! .
-Cherabanda Raju .
Those who have essentially built the very world we live in through their labour -in return for which they are allowed to merely eke out a miserable living, just enough to keep them alive and fit for continuing their thankless labour -are precisely those who belong to the so-called lower castes of the Brahminical order. Turning this brutal socio-economic reality upside down, YFE would have us believe just the opposite! It is highly shameful and condemnable that in a socially-sensitive campus like JNU, YFE is attempting to insult the most fundamental and basic comprehension of Indian society that our academics and our collective experience have together moulded. It is easier to enslave a people who are made to lose their ability to understand the very nature of their oppression. It is precisely with this game plan in mind that the YFE is shamefully and cynically upturning the very facts on which we base our understanding. We warn the casteist forces embodied by the YFE that the JNU community will never tolerate their casteist tactics and racist rhetoric. We would like to remind the YFE, who are today yelling themselves hoarse against caste-based reservations, .
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