There is not pitting anyone against anyone to acknowledge different experiences. As an Indian in America, I definitely have had my share of crazy experiences, but it would require enormous blindness for me to equate what I go through with the experience of Black people in this country.

Which is an entirely separate issue from the very real and prevalent racism in the South Asian diaspora and South Asians back home, as well. There's a very well documented and obvious preference for fair skin in India, which is only now being reckoned with with any honesty. That has been imported over with the Indian diaspora in the US and the UK as well.

And none of this grapples with the fact that the successful Indians in these countries come from the upper castes in India. I do as well, and the previlage and supremacist views among our castes in India are truly disgusting. Of course we're "model" minorities. Indians immigrating to Europe and the US do not do so to escape persecution and crime. They do so based on their wealth and previlage back home. It's like you got the Indian equivalents of white people, in terms of where we stand in the social and economic ladder.

So yes, there's need to acknowledge that previlage, and how that boosts us. And there's need to grapple with our racism too. The end goal is solidarity, but solidarity without an acknowledgement of our own failures is pretty damn hollow.