To take an even more extreme example: what would you make of a Namboothiri's complaint that a Dalit got within 96 feet of him without his consent and thus caused him to become ritually polluted?

To steel man this:

Crap, I'm ritually polluted now, and as a result I'm going to suffer horrible social consequences, even though I personally think the whole "ritually polluted" thing is nonsense. If only that blasted Dalit hadn't screwed things up for me!