Precedent
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Founder Sites and Institutional Sites: A Note on Sikh Sacred Geography
X.T.M announces an automatic fine for racialised language against Dravidian communities, then sets a framework for disputes over Sikh holy places. Founder sites such as Nankana Sahib lie in Pakistan,…
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Moderation Notice
X.T.M tells commenters that the site now prefers many voices to many comments, and holds known authors to a higher bar than anonymous readers. Authors are urged to write posts…
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India That Is Bharat: The Exceptional Uniqueness and the Dual Identity
X.T.M answers the charge that the site treats India more gently than Pakistan. The post argues India is both a seventy-nine-year-old state and a civilisation of some five thousand years,…
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Open Thread + A Note on Standards
Brown Pundits raises its moderation standard: considered thought only, on all sides, effective immediately.
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On Dhurandhar, Decorum, and Where BP Draws the Line
X.T.M explains a suspension of BB’s commenting rights until 2 April after he directed a film-style threat at another commenter. The post says the line is argument versus menace, admits…
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Brown Pundits Is Not a Cesspit. Keep It That Way.
X.T.M announces that all four authors are moved to commentator status until each commits to evidence-based comments. The post sets out how “genocide” is defined and contested for 1971, and…
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On “The Haraam Bit”: Free Speech, Trolling, and Our Red Lines
X.T.M explains why he overwrote a post that mocked Pakistani-origin women performers, calling it communal trolling rather than analysis. He sets out BP’s editorial standards: controversial is fine, targeted mockery…
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Moderation Note: On Gaza, October 7, and the Limits of Tolerance
A moderation note: the founder bars a commenter from becoming an author and removes his past comments, argues another commenter is a Muslim nationalist rather than an Islamist, and says…
