“Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear: The Yashica Dutt Caste Crusade”, Stop Hindu Dvesha, May 13, 2026
“When an activist poses as a journalist, readers should immediately lower their expectations. The latest piece from Prism Reports, “New York bill confronts caste discrimination residents face at work and in public institutions, advocates say,” perfectly proves the point.[1] Its author, Yashica Dutt, is a professional Dalit activist who has spent years popularizing “caste” as the central fault line of Hindu society and pushing to institutionalize that narrative in the West. For her to write a supposedly objective article on a New York “caste discrimination” bill is like asking a lifelong member of the Ku Klux Klan to deliver a neutral investigation into racial discrimination in America.
In classic activist-journalism style, Dutt crams every tired anti-Hindu trope into one article: “Hindu supremacists,” “right-wing Hindu groups,” “Hindutva,” “Brahmin managers,” “caste privilege,” and the usual parade of victim anecdotes. She tries to weave these scattered threads into the appearance of a systemic crisis demanding urgent legislation. But no amount of skillful prose can transform weak evidence, biased sources, ideological underpinnings and unbridled zeal into credible journalism.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, no matter how finely you try to weave it…….”
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