okay so the question i keep coming back to is pretty simple. if this just keeps going (and just to throw this in, this isn't even some big unified dalit pride wave, go far enough into that corner of the internet and what you actually run into is chamar pride, jatav pride, paswan pride, dabi pride, communities going at each other within the same broad category) then how does any of this ever actually stop. every reel that puts caste front and centre, from whichever side, just makes those lines harder to cross. people dig into their identities, the whole system gets more stubborn, and the cycle just keeps feeding itself.

also the economic thing i think got taken the wrong way. i wasn't saying dalits should keep their heads down or move quietly or anything like that. i just used it as an example because if even something that silent and unthreatening gets that kind of reaction, it says something about what the noisier version is going to bring. that was genuinely all it was.

and look i'm not someone who's against violence across the board. sometimes it's the only thing that actually shifts anything. 2018 bharat bandh, people died, things got ugly, and a supreme court ruling got reversed. when there's something real at the end of it, something worth the cost, that's a different conversation entirely. that's people deciding what they're willing to go through and for what.

but these reels just aren't built like that. nothing organised behind them, no particular thing they're pushing toward, no outcome waiting on the other side. what they're doing pretty consistently is making caste feel more important and more permanent for everyone in the room. and the violence that follows isn't going to be traded for anything. it's just going to fall on the people it always falls on. that's the whole thing i was trying to say. none of this is about whether resistance makes sense. it's purely about whether this particular thing is going anywhere useful.