June 2019
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Brown Pundits Browncast episode 52: Sahil Handa, National Review intern and cosmopolitan conservative
A BrownCast episode on cosmopolitan conservatism with Sahil Handa, a National Review writer and Harvard student raised north of London, whose father is a Punjabi from Kenya and whose mother…
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Coloniser boasts about his skin colour privilege
The author calls a white expatriate’s poem about her skin-colour privilege in China classic virtue signalling, arguing that a privileged person should let the less privileged speak, and that the…
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Why it is very sad that racism arose in the US but not India-
The author argues caste is best seen as an institution that ring-fenced ancestry, so that low AASI rather than high ANI marks higher rank, and speculates on how class structure…
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Why I hate the term Brown
After watching Daughters of Destiny, the author argues ‘Brown’ is an offensive catch-all because it hides differences of shade and caste privilege, urging Dalit South Asians to claim ‘black’ so…
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The Tebbit test is racist
The author argues that the Tebbit test of whom British Asians support at cricket is coded racism, since a Welshman cheering Wales raises no eyebrows, and says Asians were never…
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Daughters of Destiny
Recommends the four-part Netflix series Daughters of Destiny, about a school founded by an Indian-American millionaire for Dalit girls in India.
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Generations don’t exist, and neither do “immigrants”
Prompted by an online dispute over ‘second-generation immigrants’, the author argues that generations are a convenient binning of continuous variation, that immigrant should apply only to those born abroad, and…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
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No honor among brownz
Quotes a report on Subway franchisees alleging that supervisors manipulated inspections, with the poster’s comment that beneath it lies a story of South Asian petty corruption and that business reporters…
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The Dalai Lama is right-
Defending the Dalai Lama’s remark that his successor should be attractive, the author argues that treating ugliness as virtue, and being white as the best thing in the world, is…
