Twitter CEO charged with outraging Indian religious feelings for "smash Brahminical Patriarchy" sign

[muriel_volestrangler]

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, is the subject of a blasphemy complaint in India because a picture of him holding a sign saying “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” was taken during his recent visit to the country, infuriating religious conservatives.

Dorsey had been meeting with women journalists and activists when the picture was taken. The statement is in reference to the archaic Hindu caste system which still disproportionately hurts women and anyone on the lower rungs of the social hierarchy.

Link to tweet

The sign is the reason Rajkumar Sharma, vice president of the pro-Brahmin Vipra Foundation’s youth wing, essentially filed a blasphemy complaint against Dorsey. Now a judge is letting the complaint proceed:

“Metropolitan Judge Rachan Bissa has admitted the petition and listed the matter for hearing on December 1,” the petitioner’s counsel H M Saraswat said.

Sharma said the post was “anti-Brahmin” and used coarse language, which was humiliating and thus, intolerable for the community.

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For now, though, until a judge dismisses the case, Dorsey is charged with violating Sec. 295A of India’s Penal Code, which forbids “Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.”

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/11/23/twitters-ceo-charged-with-blasphemy-for-smash-brahminical-patriarchy-sign/

Snowflake religious patriarchy ...

[vlyons]

1. File under - How to win friends and influence people

nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Well, I like him more for doing it ... (nt)

[vlyons]

4. I would like him if

he did something that was actually effective. His stunt didn't work out so great. How about if he held a sign that said something like "Empower women for greatness," or "Women make us better," or "Educate women. They are our 1st teachers?" And had a program to do just that.

The purpose of rhetoric is to persuade an audience. Not turn them off.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. What people with 5 Billion dollars do. Ignorant stuff...

[Voltaire2]

7. Why is this ignorant?

Perhaps this was in reference to the ongoing controversy over misogyny within religious institutions in India?

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[gtar100]

5. So Brahmans think the caste system is essential to their religious beliefs?

How convenient...for them. My view from the outside is that it's denigrating to not only the people who get the short end of the stick but to the Hindu religion and society as well. I hope it soon becomes a relic of the past.

[Major Nikon]

6. Funny how religion always demands its privilege

Often accompanied by the force of law. Closed mindedness at its finest.