Oh buddy I’ve had my fair share of this shit for a while.
Daily interactions with Tumblr lefties be like —
Me: Hindutva is not casteist, many hindutva ideologues worked to remove casteism from society and even our PM is not from the upper caste.
Leftie bigot: so you are trying to say that there’s no caste based discrimination in India because our PM is not upper caste??! 🤡
Me: nooooo!!! Can’t you rea—
Leftie bigot: people of the world!! Look this is a hindutva nationalist who denies casteism and is casteist and is an upper caste privileged white person!!!
Me: but—
Leftie bigot: Shut up you hindutva sanghi fascist!!
Me: but I’m not white?!!! Or upper caste??!!!
Leftie bigot: *blocks and runs away*
Leftie bigot: *makes a post on their blog about how to recognise Hindutva nationalism* “If you see them do this — Run!!!”
Been pickin up bits and pieces of contemporary fiction secondhand and keep going "This sounds totally unappealing" and after a bit of consideration what I end up thinking is that all of these plots are about the identity of the characters and not the desires of the characters and I can't fuckin stand it.