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"The student later tweeted, referring to Spivak as ‘this bastard and bitch’ [who] did not allow me to complete my question. Spivak’s gender assertion took a casteist turn, and the student’s caste assertion took a misogynist turn. There is outrage on social media against Spivak for her outrageous behaviour as that is considered to be deeply prejudiced and coming from a position of power....
Most of this seems to come from the fact that many Indian postcolonial scholars are Bengali, and it’s a no brainer to see that most Bengali scholarship is relatively ill-informed of caste in the rest of India."
https://thewire.in/caste/the-gayatri-spivak-controversy-exploring-the-implosion-of-subalternity-in-public-discourse
P.S. In a similar vein, while Spivak was elitist, I should add that the JNU student in question has been hurling misogynistic and anti-Bengali abuses on Twitter since that day. Like really filthy street abuses. He also introduced himself to Spivak as a "professor", when he is simply a student. Spivak may be snooty, but this dude is ▮▮▮.
Anshul may be a Dalit, but that doesn’t give him a free pass to abuse everyone. He has also been abusing Dalit writers like Suraj Yengde and Manisha Mondal, including misogynistic abuses to the latter. Even his question to Spivak wasn’t a question but just trolling. He later made a meme morphing Spivak’s face on a corpse awaiting cremation.
I think Dalit activists should dissociate with this abusive and misogynistic guy because he is hurting their cause.
What was his question except a personal identitarian attack that did not address any of her research or argument that she had presented?
I say this as a marxist socialist- identitarian politics is cancer.