The status of model minority is not earned, and it cannot be banked. It is on loan, extended conditionally by people who have always reserved the right to reclassify, and it is withdrawn the moment it stops being useful — usually at the point one of us does something that can be made to stand in for all of us. That moment is visibly approaching. Vikrum Digwa is being used to draw it closer. The only honest response is to refuse the bargain — to stand with Muslims, with refugees, with migrants, with every community in the firing line of this politics, publicly and without qualification. Not as charity but as clarity: their fate and ours are the same.

Page is 404 now.