Being a dalit doesn’t prevent one from having a very powerful and well connected family, as this woman has. Her uncle is a bigwig in the diplomatic service and previously held the post of Deputy Consul General in NY. Her father Uttam is Principal Secretary of the Tribal Secretary dept.

He has recently been featured in the special edition of India Today, a largest selling socio-political weekly in India, as “one of the 40 drivers of India’s growth machine”

re: #20 Aunty Entity Dragon

I am not making an argument. I point out the way things are (and the Secret Service parties were all over the world, btw…and none of them were prosecuted in those countries)

You certainly aren’t making an argument. You’re just whining incoherently about irrelevant non-specific nonsense.

Wage slave? What the hell is that?

You know goddamned well what it is. If the maid was brought here to work in a textile sweatshop you’d have no problem with the concept, but your intellectual blinders go up when there’s a chance to bash the US government for some perceived hypocrisy.

What’s really fucked up, this week the Indian Supreme Court gutted gay rights in that country, upholding a colonial era law that made gay sex a crime. Yet here you are, someone who’s entire life is protected by the admittedly imperfect but progressing laws of your first world home, talking shit and trying to find some kind of excuse for the attempted prosecution of a maid who’d been brought here to perform labor for substandard wages and who’s visa was being held hostage by her own third world corrupt government. The diplomat wouldn’t have been in a position to be extorted if she hadn’t broken the law in order to keep her maid in a state of abject subjugation.

The fact is that India is a hellhole with one of the worst income disparities on the planet and absolutely zero excuse for it. There’s no valid reason in the world for turning a blind eye to this kind of behavior.

re: #25 Aunty Entity Dragon

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We need to shut this down now. In point of fact, there are GLBT US consular employees who are now in violation of Indian law and who can be targeted.

Expel the woman. Send her home and take a close look at the maid who has been charged with serious crimes in India herself.

India is one of the two major Asian powers that does not like China (Japan being the other)…and we need them as friends, not enemies.

India is a bully, bullying people exactly like you, and you’d cowtow to this kind of schoolyard bullshit out of some sense of chickenshit pragmatism.

Pathetic. There are real and obvious limits to the amount of pique the Indians can show over this, pinched between Pakistan and China as they are. They’ve massively overstepped their hand here and they should get slapped hard for their fucked up behavior and the kinds of ongoing class exploitation it attempts to condone.