Vijaya Gadde , the Telugu girl at the top in in Twitter files for her leftist bias

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 3, 2022, 5:21:51 AM12/3/22
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https://swarajyamag.com/world/twitters-pro-left-bias-key-role-of-vijaya-gadde-in-biden-laptop-story-all-that-is-revealed-in-elon-musks-twitter-files

Twitter's Pro-Left Bias, Key Role Of Vijaya Gadde In Biden Laptop Story: All That Is Revealed In Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files'


Right-wingers baying for action against ex-Twitter executive  Vijaya Gadde after internal emails reveal Democrats' sway


Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec involved in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell?


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Gadde was born in India to a Telugu family and moved to the United States at age three.[9][11] Her father pursued graduate studies in the United States and initially did not have the financial means to send for his wife and daughter until Gadde turned three.[12] Her family moved to Beaumont, Texas.[13] She has described her childhood as having been affected by the Ku Klux Klan presence in Beaumont, so much that her Indian father's employer instructed him to get permission from the local Klan before he could go door-to-door for soliciting insurance.[11]

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In 2018, Gadde joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for meetings in India where they talked with several Dalit activists about their experiences on Twitter; after the meeting, the activists gave Dorsey a sign reading "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy," which he was later photographed holding.[16] The photograph attracted controversy, with some critics calling the sentiment discriminatory against Brahmins while others deemed it an appropriate response to caste- and gender-based oppression in India.[16] Gadde responded to the social media furor with an apology in a series of tweets, "I'm very sorry for this. It's not reflective of our views. We took a private photo with a gift just given to us - we should have been more thoughtful. Twitter strives to be an impartial platform for all. We failed to do that here & we must do better to serve our customers in India."[16]

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Following the announcement of the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in 2022, Gadde received renewed attention. Musk contested the existing policies of Twitter, saying the platform should only remove content if required by the law, and criticized Gadde for the decision to block a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.[19][20][18]

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Musk's comments echoed some other criticism of Gadde, especially from the political right, who have accused her of being Twitter's "top censorship advocate”, for her role in suspending former U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter account. It also follows criticism of the decision by Twitter, which Gadde was involved in, to prevent users from sharing a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 U.S. election where his father Joe Biden was a candidate. Jack Dorsey later characterized the decision as a mistake.[4] Gadde has been defended by others, including by former colleagues and law professor Danielle Citron, who said that Gadde understood the impact of online harassment.[4]

Ramesh Rao

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Dec 3, 2022, 8:24:26 AM12/3/22
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I think Vijaya Gadde's claims about the KKK in Beaumont, TX are somewhat suspect because as per the history of KKK their presence and power declined in the 1920s in Beaumont, TX. Gadde must have grown up in the 1980s there (she was born in 1974, and was brought to the US in 1977) for her to have remembered something like the harassment she claims her father was subjected to or was warned about.


Ramesh

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 3, 2022, 9:33:32 AM12/3/22
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This is very useful for a person like me not informed about these aspects of  American history. 


does not give the impression that an Indian immigrant during 1977 period could have been so intensively affected by the developments. 

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My long standing doubt is if an Indian /Hindu is harmed for being that, by the right wing of the country which harms the immigrants, that should result in a greater concern for  their identity as Indian/Hindu; but why do these individuals move into ideologies that are against these identities themselves ?

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Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

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Dec 3, 2022, 10:28:51 AM12/3/22
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I fully agree.  Any talk of KKK influence in the 1980s is completely bogus.  I think these "fiberals" are congenital liars!

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Vichitra Thandava

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Dec 3, 2022, 12:03:21 PM12/3/22
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But what a shame Dr Sagar, that unlike you and Nagaraji, there are also "Manavadus" like Vijaya Gadde.  India-born that too. 

It has been a wonder for me that Bengal, that produced so many great spiritual masters in the last 200 years wasn't only partitioned, but also is in the current deplorable state.  Also look at the state where Adi Shankara was born!  I have not been able to figure this one out!

Though some say the lotus blooms its fullest in dirt. 

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Raja Roy

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Dec 3, 2022, 12:08:08 PM12/3/22
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On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:21 AM Nagaraj Paturi <nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan

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Dec 3, 2022, 4:25:42 PM12/3/22
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With all due respect - it would be best to not speculate or throw stones at someone’s personal experiences. That’s the same treatment Indians get from Indologists when complaining about racism or Hinduphobia. Again with all due respect, best to concentrate on issues and not pass sarcastic and demeaning remarks at a fellow Indian (origin).

BTW, there was a massive Ku Klux Klan rally in the mid nineties in the Lafayette, Indiana which is a “twin city” of West Lafayette Indiana where Purdue Univ is located. I distinctly remember it as I was doing my PhD at that time. My Indian roommate actually went there to watch - said he saw the full contingent of torches and robes. The grandmaster of Indiana was in attendance and was interviewed by the local papers. It’s hilarious to see Indian “non-left” aligning with the right here. They are NOT your friends. They are the guys funding missionaries and padres to lead violent protests in India - would be good to remember that. 

Ramakrishnan

Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan

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Dec 3, 2022, 4:29:36 PM12/3/22
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When I was living Southern California the town of Santee, a suburb of San Diego, was jokingly called Klantee, due to the big Klan presence there.

Ramakrishnan

Ramesh Rao

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Dec 3, 2022, 5:05:30 PM12/3/22
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To say that KKK activity in a place was not recorded or noticeable is colluding with the “right”?

Please, just because someone is Indian does not mean that they cannot and will not say things that pushes false narratives in order to pursue political agendas that fit neatly into tropes about being harassed and targeted by white racists. 

BTW, it does not also mean that asking questions about Gadde’s narrative is countenancing racism and discrimination!

And finally, just because the KKK takes out a rally does not mean they are active or influential in the region. They are a laughing stock now, an anachronistic lot still pursuing cross burning in remote locations in their circus outfits. Is there racism in the US? Yes, but this is still the country that attracts the most people from around the world, and we, the middle to upper middle class folks make the most noise about racism while being the least impacted by it.

Let us therefore also not, in an effort to be cautious and objective, commit logical fallacies.

Vijaya Gadde and her left/progressive ilk now pose the biggest  threat to free speech, and they are the most influential and active in social engineering of the most disturbing and destabilizing kind, even as they join hands to protect speech and action by the supremacist, monopolist, genocidal interests.

Let us beware what we countenance.

Ramesh


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Ramesh Rao

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Dec 3, 2022, 5:13:04 PM12/3/22
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And we may, in this context, note which political party has invited the most anti-India and anti- Hindu elements into their tent.

The right and the left, Christians and Muslims, are bedfellows when it comes to targeting India and in pursuing their global agendas, but what has that got to do with expressing doubt about Gadde’s claims about the KKK in Beaumont, Tx? 

Did I not offer support for expressing that doubt? Did you read the article, the link to which was offered here?

Ramesh
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Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

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Dec 3, 2022, 10:25:50 PM12/3/22
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If anything, Vijaya Gadde should be called "Manadi."  (Manavaadu is masculine.)😂😂😂

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Vichitra Thandava

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Disagree with you, entirely.

Whether it is Vijaya Gadde or Pramila Jayapal or Ilhan Omar... They are all cut of the same mold.  Amd deserve the strongest condemnation. These "sahebs who never left" do not deserve any affinity with India or things Indian.  It's like a fried of mine FROM Atlanta when asked why he is so passionate about India when he left the country a long time ago.  He simply told the Indian minister it's true he left India a long time ago, but that India never left him. 

In the case of Vijaya Gadde and the like thr Sahebs inside her never left. 

Let us not forget that Twitter suspended one of the best researched Indology and Indian history handles, True Indology, several times.  And finally went through the pretext of listening to a stupid local cop who claimed a personal affront to her authority from the handle to ban entirely.  All of it in the context that they didn't care about what the government of India asked them to do in other instances... Even with laws and court action against them.  

Why, last week, Manmohan Singh ex PM of India apparently put out a tweet contrasting a photo of some people dancing to what he claimed was dandiya at a railway station (could have been a cut from a Bollywood film) to a lone, single Muslim doing namaz on the platform and declaring what India has come to.  While it has been widely shared,  I hope it was a fake Twitter account but many on the side of Vijaya Gadde and Ilhan Omar have taken it seriously as a fact.  But the fact remains and worthy of repeated reminder that the fellow did declare Muslims had the first right to India's resources. 

Sorry, Ramesh Rao may respect this point of view while yet criticizing it, but many of us have lost the politeness for this sort of thing altogether and can't muster respect.

And how does suppressing Hunter Biden's laptop help the KKK?  The mind boggles at the stretch of imagination required! 

But, Ramakrishnan, this is nothing personal against you. I hope you won't take it that way. 


S. Kalyanaraman

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The fat lady has not yet sung. Wait till the Republican House of Congress calls up Gadde for deposition in an enquiry that will last till Trumpt wins again. 



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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 3, 2022, 10:41:16 PM12/3/22
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Ananda Maitreya

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Dec 4, 2022, 1:11:37 AM12/4/22
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If the moderators are not careful in their posts, merrily adding fuel to fire till well into an irrelevant (to most of us) and hate-spewing discussion, what to expect of other members who wish to spread their own extreme views. Very disappointed. Every now and then this scholarly forum degenerates into this battle or that. Please be mindful of others' sensibilities. Let us stick to discussions of vidya and jnana.
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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 4, 2022, 1:18:28 AM12/4/22
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Completely agree, Ananda Maitreya ji. 

I am certainly guilty of what you accuse me of. 

I would be more alert and careful in future to post relevant message relevant to the lists of which I am a member. 

If I see that this is happening more frequently, I would unburden myself from the role that needs that care and alertness. 



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