For the past few days, the media friendly to the ruling establishment in Tamil Nadu masquerading as ‘neutral’ media, has been continuously talking about the sexual harassment episode at a private school in Chennai. This has taken over the news cycle at a time when the state has been grappling with the second wave of the Wuhan Virus. When bodies are queueing outside crematoriums, hospitals are getting overwhelmed and vaccination progressing at a snail’s pace, all that the media is doing is to go on a witch-hunt against one man for calling a spade a spade.
The self-proclaimed ‘journalists’ in Tamil Nadu are expecting Indu Makkal Katchi leader Arjun Sampath to speak their language of associating the sexual harassment at the school to ‘Brahminism’, ‘Hinduism’ and what not. To them, the sexual harassment is not the issue. Their agenda is to run a smear campaign against the school because it was founded and run by Brahmins. They want a statement declaring his guilt in his association with Brahmins.
In doing neither Arjun ji has been unfairly portrayed as a person who does not take cases of sexual harassment seriously. The media has been engaging in a witch hunt of not just YG Parthasarathy family in this case just because they are Brahmins, but also Thiru. Arjun Sampath making him look like a bigot and a hate-monger.
If only Thiru. Arjun Sampath joins the chorus and declares Brahmins evil by birth, he will become a darling of these yellow YouTubers and social media influencers.
While every YouTube channel spews racial hatred on Brahmins, in the issue of PSBB, IMK’s support to a victim of harassment in a Chrsitain institution is given a communal angle.
They are trying to peddle an agenda in the society where communal hate for Hinduism and especially Brahmins is made a touchstone of ‘secularism’. Individuals who are born into specific castes are deemed ‘genetically-bigoted’.
One wonders if these warriors of justice will condemn with same vehemence the ‘Me Too’ accused Vairamuthu, who has been accused of sexual harassment by more than 15 women. The yardsticks are different for a ‘Dravidian stock’. He won’t be considered as a sexual predator. These ‘warriors of justice’ having done their ‘viscoms’ from the den of sexual harassment will celebrate the sexual predator and declare him as ‘innocent unless proved guilty’. Same cannot be expected for a Hindu or a Hindu institution.
For these ‘warriors of justice’, Isha Foundation and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a villain but Karunya and Paul Dinakaran who has encroached 700 acres is the divine lord Jesus Christ himself.
If motivated Christians can derogate Hindus and talk about intitutions, why shouldn’t the Indu Makkal Katchi talk about sexual harassment in Christian institution? How can this be diversion? In fact isn’t this the right time to bring out all cases against women abuse from all places?
Isn’t it the job of the media to use this moment to highlight all cases of harassment, or are they afraid that their attack on Hindu institutions will lose momentum, and people will actually see through their agenda?
It is high time these ‘warriors of social justice’ stop their tirade against Arjun Sampath and other Hindu leaders and institutions.
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