Why does the accusing finger always turn towards the oppressed?

livemint.com:

savarna has taken advantage of India’s hard-won reservation policy by pretending to be from an oppressed caste, the “jokes" that immediately arise are about the oppressed caste. In the case of Khedkar, shouldn’t shame be radiating from the idea of a civil servant without disability perpetuating fraud? Why wouldn’t you at this moment look around with discomfort and ask what chance has allowed you, a mediocre person surrounded by other mediocre persons, to get where you have gotten? Instead, the pivot manifests usually in the form that Sabharwal’s tweet has taken. Of questioning the “merit" of persons with disabilities instead.

Or in a similar context, for the state to bury all its violence against avarna students by declaring that the late Rohith Vemula and his brave family “had obtained Scheduled Caste certificates fraudulently". In Canada, a country with a bloody history of cruelty towards indigenous communities, where as recently as the 20th century, children from indigenous communities were forcibly taken from their parents and placed in terrible “residential schools", there is a popular term for this behaviour. Novelists, filmmakers, professors and others have been alleged to fake indigenous heritage or to have been a “pretendian" aka a pretend Indian.

This is a very rude term, as you can imagine, resting as it does on colonial levels of general knowledge. A recent case involved Amira and Nadya Gill, a pair of high-achieving twin sisters. One was an engineering student, the other a law student.

They played soccer, ran a podcast, won awards and were proudly indigenous. In September 2023, their mother and they were charged with defrauding organisations that support the education of indigenous students. In June, their