re: #98 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah. It’s just one that really ticks me off.

D’Souza is one of those guys that imagines that any successes attained by India are the product of British intervention—a position which ignores how maliciously and purposefully the British played regional and religious tensions to maintain power, even during Partition. Of course, he’d also like to pretend that the Raj wasn’t based on disproportionate acts of retaliatory violence and racism. I loathe the guy.

I think he may in some ways like the way the British set Indians above Africans in a number of ways. He may feel that the British were correct in placing Africans on “the bottom rail of the fence” to use an African-American description of similar treatment in the American South.

Of course, that would confirm D’Souza as a racist asshole, so before I attach weight to this idea I’d like to hear people’s thoughts on it.