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Irony is that a British news outlet is posting about it when they were the ones who introduced that law in India before 157 years!! Anyway, a great step in the
by vijaybritto 8y ago
Irony is that a British news outlet is posting about it when they were the ones who introduced that law in India before 157 years!!
Anyway, a great step in the right direction!
- robjan 8y agoThe people who made those laws are long dead
- vijaybritto 8y agoYes. Not blaming any Brit now. Just pointing out
- labster 8y agoI'm pretty sure that this is not an example of irony. There's no unexpected or ambiguous element in the British covering news in India, as they have had an interest in the subcontinent since 1600.
- nnain 8y agoI think the OPs point was that out of 1000s of other news channels writing about it, a BBC link will come up on HN. Last week BBC posted a story titled, "Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit", about women scientists in Indian Space Research Orginisation. That's how ridiculously biased and condescending they continue to be. And that's why many of us get irritated by their news.
- labster 8y agoWhile you make some valid points, none of them are even tangentially related to irony.
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- Ensorceled 8y agoHow is that ironic? ALL of the Brits who introduced that law are dead, they aren't running news outlets.
- vijaybritto 8y agoI'm talking about the kingdom not the individuals. If Trump does something bad, for the rest of the world it's just the USA and not just Trump or his party. So here it's the kingdom which made it illegal is talking with a moral high ground now. That looks ironical to me! Thats all man!
- MLR 8y agoI'd imagine that prohibitions against homosexuality existed in (at least) the pre-British Muslim dynasties, no?
- vijaybritto 8y agoNo idea. May be.