“Unfortunately, my experiences dealing with Indians (not all Indians obviously) have shown me…”
“I find a large subset of Hindus extremely toxic and hateful. I’m glad I don’t have to share a country with them. …”
“The “Saffroniate” cannot now claim innocence. The fact is that they get off on loss of life in Pakistan. They have real psychological problems.”
“There seems to be a genuine bloodlust for war and the decimation of Pakistan among Indian nationalists.”
Replace the target ‘Hindu’ with black, or even muslim, and what would happen if such statements are repeatedly published?
Pakistani claims of “false flag” has been a consistent pattern going back to the Mumbai attacks of 26/11/2008, where the Pakistani government for years refused to accept that Ajmal Kasab and his co-murderers were Pakistani.
It is deeply offensive for Brown Pundits to platform such preposterous assertions regarding the brutal massacre of Hindu tourists in Pahalgam. It has barely been a year since the tragedy occurred.
Platforming such propaganda is an overt choice. This is not free speech. This is spitting in the face of trauma.
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On the lines quoted: they are offensive, and we will remove them.
On the wider charge, that Brown Pundits is platforming false-flag claims about Pahalgam as an editorial choice, that is a fair thing to raise and a serious one, and we will address it directly rather than treat it as a moderation footnote.
We keep the free-speech boundary wide. We do not keep it wide enough to launder a massacre.
https://www.brownpundits.com/2026/05/25/nehru-lost-india-not-jinnah/#comment-136524
https://www.brownpundits.com/2026/05/27/open-thread-33/#comment-136539
https://www.brownpundits.com/2026/05/27/open-thread-33/#comment-136555
Authors are meant to educate the Admins; this was a precedent you set Kabir.
RNJ is following in that precedent and educating us, what is wrong with that?
It’s up to you how you want to deal with him.
If I were the Admin and someone accused me of “gaslighting” that person would be out of here so fast he wouldn’t know what hit him.
I absolutely don’t tolerate disrespect.
By the way, he objected to the very title “Nehru lost India not Jinnah”. That’s what he called “gaslighting”.
most comments have been edited to remove the offending parts
I normally stay away from RNJ’s threads but I will respond to you here:
I am the one who said I find a “large subset toxic and hateful”. I stand by that position. We have seen ample evidence of that toxicity on this very blog in RNJ’s and BB’s behavior.
Regardless, you are free to edit those words if you feel like it.
I pushed back against Khawaja’s use of the term “false flag”. I am capable of criticizing my own team.
RNJ’s real problem seems to be that BP now has a full team of Pakistanis who will push back on his and BB’s bigotry.
BP is meant to be a search for a Truth, not an eternal contestation.
Centring the sanctity of innocent life, in all circumstance is the best moral path rather than “my team right or wrong.”
I can support that – however, the Pahalgam false flag assertion that is being made on EK’s thread is particularly distressing.
There simply isn’t any evidence to connect India to the train attack in Balochistan.
At a minimum, there needs to be some sort of disclaimer that disassociates BP from such claims.
The entire post is incendiary accusations and empty assertions designed to provoke. Which fits with EK’s commenting pattern.
A few Pakistanis are pure Pak Faujeet Nationalists – crafted in an ISPR lab.
Even most regular Pakistanis will laugh at “Fitna-ul-Hindustan” or whatever they call it. And I have never heard the maximalist claim of “East Punjab and West Bengal should have been part of Pakistan” before here.
Some are patriotic towards Pakistan by compulsion. They know it sucks but it’s their country so they keep defending it.
“I know my dad is an alcoholic abusive loser but he’s still my dad”
With all due respect, the way this blog is set up right now it is not a “search for Truth” but a forum for India-Pakistan contestation.
I’m not going to belabor this point any further but that’s how I see it.
I have never expressed glee at loss of life in India. The same cannot be said for the other team. We all remember BB’s reaction to the Imambargah attack in Islamabad in February–an attack that incidentally took place quite close to my aunt’s home.
As I said, I don’t agree with Khawaja’s claim regarding Pahalgam being a “false flag”.
I would be fine with his thread being removed or edited. But since I’m not in charge, that decision doesn’t rest with me.
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