Humiliation
As Genocide Is Explained And Elaborated-Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla
I would like to
take this opportunity to elaborate on my previous post "Humiliation is a
substitute for genocide" in this post. My wife "Princess:"
Selamawit Hailu Bezabih asked me to explain in detail to my readers what
humiliation is and how it corresponds to the meaning of genocide historically
or with present evidence that is happening across the globe. She also revealed
her reason behind asking me to explain why humiliation is genocide since
everyone can’t be Cornel West or Franz Fanon or Gopal Guru. So I am writing
this small piece to make my readers understand why I said humiliation is
genocide in my previous post.
When Franz Fanon
said whites substituted discrimination for lynching blacks in the white world
when Cornel West said racism is an ontological wounding of black men and women,
and when Gopal Guru said casteism, untouchability, and racism are raw in the
South Asian context, there is a sense in their theoretical formations to
understand the sub-human status of blacks and untouchables in their respective
societies. We all know that Franz Fanon or Cornel West are talking about the
sub-human status of the African community in the race-based white world,
whereas Gopal Guru is talking about untouchable castes in caste-based,untouchability-based,
and race based India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, etc.
In the above societies, we have a 6000-year history of
the heinous, brutal, extreme, uncivilized caste system, untouchability, racism,
and unbearable violence against untouchable castes until today.
In the above societies, we have a 6000-year history of
heinous, brutal, extreme, uncivilized caste system, untouchability, racism, and
unbearable violence against untouchable castes. Apart from violating their
basic human rights, such as not allowing them to wear foot-wear in front of
Hindus, not allowing them to drink water from Hindu localities, not allowing
them to sit in front of Hindus, not allowing them to express love to Hindu
women, not allowing them to touch Hindus, not allowing them to go to Hindu
temples, not allowing them to walk in Hindu areas, not allowing them to touch
Hindus, not allowing them to touch Hindus.
Apart from violating their basic human rights, such as
not allowing them to wear foot-wear in front of Hindus, not allowing them to
drink water from Hindu localities, not allowing them to sit in front of Hindus,
not allowing them to attend school in Hindu schools, not allowing them to carry
out their marriage processes, not allowing them to wear white clothes, not
allowing them to wear cotton clothes, lynching, raping, maiming for life,
social boycotting, untouchable caste, apart from gang-raping, killing, and
massacring untouchables, etc., until today.
They are not allowing untouchable castes to reject any
servility to Hindus, are not allowing them to do manual scavenging work, are
not allowing them to use umbrellas in front of Hindus, are not allowing them to
marry Hindu girls, are not allowing them to raise their heads or look at
Hindus, are not allowing them to read books, are not allowing them to marry the
untouchable girl they like, and are not allowing the untouchable girl to have
her virginity for her untouchable husband.
They have a rigid Devadasi system, slavery, bonded
labour, honour killings, are not allowed to marry Hindu girls, are not allowed
to sit on chairs or tables in schools, are not allowed to talk to any Hindu
girl, they are forced to bear nicknames, are forced to bear abusive language,
passing comments, eve-teasing, forcing them to be temple prostitutes, forcing
them to eat human excreta, forcing them to drink their urine, forcing them to
clean human excreta of Hindus with their hands, apart from gang-raping and
killing untouchables and massacring them till today.
India or Nepal or South Asia or Asian-Pacific societies
have not yet emerged from their raw caste-based violence to any substitute
practices as white western societies emerged from lynching to discrimination in
the words of Franz Fanon. There is no substitute for untouchables, even on May
30, 2022. This is the pathetic condition of the untouchable castes in India.
Hegemonic ideologies may argue that India's Constitution guarantees the safety
of untouchables, but it is thrashed in the same way that Western society, where
theory and practice are opposed. As Franz Fanon rightly said, the white world
substituted discrimination for lynching.
I started thinking, by my observation as well as with
my lived experience with Asian-Pacific-European-Australian-Brazilian-Ethiopian
societies, that caste-based, untouchability-based,
and race-based violence is raw without any change in its form and spirit. If
there had been any change in caste-based, untouchability-based, and race-based
societies, Gopal Guru might not have produced his ground-breaking theoretical
work, Humiliation or the Cracked Mirror, in our times. If
there was no caste-based or untouchability-based or race-based humiliation or
persecution, I would not have produced Why
I Am Not Indian: The Untouchable Rejecting India’s Citizenship.
In the above societies, there is historical but ancient
violence against untouchable castes. The Indian State, like any Asian-Pacific
State, tried to show its crocodile tears by implementing some affirmative
action for the untouchable castes in the public sector. Affirmation action is
both an enabler and a constraint in the reproduction of old age, caste-based, untouchability-based,
and race-based violence against history's oldest victims in our time.
Affirmative action or scholarships are agents of
age-old repressive ideologies in Asian-Pacific-European-American societies.
These affirmative politics victimize African-Americans, Africans, dark-skinned
people, and untouchable castes by reproducing the recipient's violence,
humiliation, insult, degradation, exclusion, and so on.
As a result, the untouchable castes of Asian-Pacific
feudal societies have historically been the longest victims of the
Asian-Pacific way of life.
After them, we have Africans who were brought by white
masters as slaves, so slavery has a history of 500 years. African slaves have
faced every violence that the untouchables of India, Nepal, or Japan have
faced, but their condition is substituted by discrimination for lynching or
raping. Of course, the myth of the safety of the African-American community or
African community in the white world has been questioned by the George Floyd
incident.
We all know how brutally George Floyd was killed by
white and Chinese origins. This is not an isolated incident; it is commonplace
in the white world against Africans and people with dark skin. The Theory of
Human Rights and its violations of human rights are omnipresent and omnipotent
in the white world. We have millions of Janus's faces, or black skin,
white-masked people.
We have a holocaust in which eleven million Jews and
other ethnic groups have faced untouchable persecution in the white world.
Throughout
the South Asian-Pacific region, untouchable castes were and are Jewish.
African-American communities are untouchable castes. Untouchables are African
Americans not only during the Holocaust era but also continue the legacy of
genocidal persecution till today.
So the untouchable castes are African-Americans and
Jews in the white world, whereas African-Americans and Jews are untouchable
castes in the Asian-Pacific mode of society. I am sure Jewish people would
certainly reject my formation of ongoing victims of
Asian-Pacific-European-American ideologies since Jews are die-hard fans of
Indian Brahmins or Pundits like any white men or women, but I hope
African-Americans and Africans never reject my formula since they know the
Janus faces or black skin, white mask of dominant castes, races, and ethnic
groups in the Asia-Pacific-American-European mode of societies.
The only difference is that discrimination has replaced
the Holocaust, whereas untouchable castes have remained as they are in the
Asian-Pacific mode of caste-based and untouchability-based violent societies.
There is always a status quo of untouchables in India or Nepal or Japan or the
Islamic world. They are still waiting for substitute humiliation or
discrimination for their unbearable caste system, untouchability, persecution,
genocide, and racism in India. They want to substitute humiliation or
discrimination for their caste and race and untouchability-based genocide, public
lynching, raping, massacre, genocide or untouchability, but Asian-Pacific
societies in general, and Indian society in particular, are not ready for
any change in the status quo of caste-based violence against victims of
caste-based genocide.
So
when I said humiliation is a substitute for genocide, it is about the
African-American community, dark-skinned people, the African community, and the
Jewish community in the white world. The untouchable or Dalit castes of the Asia-Pacific
region have not yet achieved any change in their status quo, so there is no
substitute for their unbearable caste-based, untouchability-based, and
race-based public violence in our times. It may take the next millions of years
to see any substitution for public violence against untouchable castes in
caste-based societies like India or Nepal or Japan or Sri Lanka or Pakistan or
Bangladesh or South Africa or wherever Hindu communities live.
At the end of my
thoughts on this issue, let me conclude by saying that in every step of my walk
in India, Brazil, Australia, Ethiopia, and Europe, I have experienced
unbearable raw casteism, untouchability, and racism. There is unbearable
humiliation in every step of my walk in India, Brazil, Australia, Ethiopia, and
Europe. Casteism is dead, long live casteism; Racism is dead, long live racism;
and Untouchability is dead, long live untouchability.
Finally,
I would like to thank my wife and baby boy, "Prince", Saviour
Suryaraju Mattimalla, for creating a condition to write my pieces.
Dr.Suryaraju
Mattimalla
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