Dalit American-style
Dalit American-style
dalit From the Sanskrit "dalita", meaning "divided, split, broken, scattered". In the traditional Indian caste system, a member of the lowest caste. At some perverse juncture in the relatively recent past, cops were vaulted to the status of demi-gods, and common-run Americans legally demoted as inferior to the former. Whenever a person criticizes the official stunt to lay-down and enforce a Post-Modern, US caste-system, he's invariably confronted with denial, disgust and snarling contempt. [1] 1. In the US, all citizens are equal under the law.
2. X (a governmental employee) is legally permitted to inflict A on Y (a non-governmental employee), but Y is not legally permitted to inflict A on X.
3. X and Y are not equal under the law.
4. 1 is (epically) false. No one who participates in his own legal/political/cultural degradation should be taken seriously. He who celebrates the elevation of state actors (cops, DAs, judges, etc.) over himself and he who seeks to convince others that his nisus to self-devaluation is an intelligent move in a game (at which he can only lose) has effected a perilous leap into the abyss. Let's compare the legal status, world-view and behavior of East Indian dalits with their American counterparts: (A) In India, is it legally permissible for a high caste Hindu to violently ream-out the intimate orifices of a lowly dalit? (In America, cops forcibly probe the secret cavities of civilians with legal sanction - and neither serious complaint nor resistance has been forthcoming from the American dalits.) (B) In India, are high caste Hindus conferred qualified immunity from civil law and functional immunity from criminal law? (In America, cops have been legally granted qualified immunity from civil liability, and they are routinely not prosecuted for lawless acts against civilians - despite that their illegal behaviors are captured, recorded and publicly disseminated.) The negative answers to the foregoing "A" and "B" questions eerily demonstrate that the US operates a caste-system, based on occupational status, more rigid - than the East Indians ever pulled-off. Though the dalits of India closely resemble common-run Americans, they maintain a less fatalist and a less submissive world-view - than their American cousins. Recently - in the state of Gujarat - when sacred cows were discovered dead, the dalits of Gujarat refused to dispose of the putrid carcasses, and four dalit youths were savagely attacked - in retaliation. To protest the incident - as well as their collective maltreatment at the hands of higher caste Hindus, dalit activists openly defied a number of lawful orders - two of which were to cease blocking traffic and to stop hurling rocks at police. Where the East Indian victims of a caste-system externally object to their appointed role in it, Americans civilians joyously internalize the (politically devised) dictates of their own. The dalits of India neither begged nor volunteered to become anyone's subordinate; the humiliation of inhabiting the caste-structure's lowest-rung was forcibly imposed on their ancestors - 1000s of years ago by Kurgan invaders. On the other hand - over the course of decades (via the war on crime, the war on drugs and the war on terrorism), American civilians pestered, heckled and deviled their lawmakers to be rendered legally inferior to government actors. If our ancestors, who - with great expense of blood and struggle - expelled the British occupiers from the Colonies, embraced this queer world-view of ours, i.e. a near-infinite tolerance of state employees who wield power unjustly and who are effectively isolated from the consequences of their actions, there'd have been no America to have eventually turned itself hyper-dalit. The ultimate villain in the daliting of America is the American civilian.
Footnote
(1) Here's the latest scheme, designed to perfect the realization of the caste-system: The state of Louisiana - under new legislation - legally re-categorized those employed in the profession of policing as a protected class. A civilian who resists arrest commits a hate crime against a person of protected status. See: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/23/louisiana-police-chief-resisting-arrest and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/us/louisiana-enacts-hate-crimes-law-to-protect-a-new-group-police.html.