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> For a government which has attained a historical majority for the second time, just imagine the impact they can have if they focussed this energy on improving
by quantummkv 7y ago
> For a government which has attained a historical majority for the second time, just imagine the impact they can have if they focussed this energy on improving economic and human-life indicators instead.
The government in its election pitch made this one of the major points that they would execute if they came to power. So please don't be under the assumption that the people that voted don't want this to be implemented.
Think of it as technical debt in the codebase. It has to be addressed before you can execute a growth strategy on your product or it will come to haunt you later.
- vijaybritto 7y agoGenocide is not like technical debt!!
- quantummkv 7y agoI don't really understand where the genocide is coming from. At the worst you will be deported back to your homeland. If your homeland is genociding you it's not India's problem.
- vijaybritto 7y agoYeah Gujarat 2002 was in Pakistan right/??
- quantummkv 7y agoConsidering how you continue to bring up an issue that was disproved multiple times at every level (That too during Congress rule so you cannot accuse Modi of manipulating investigating agencies and courts), It might have been. Continuing to harp on an non-issue like this in public is the reason why the voters keep voting Modi in and the opposition out.
- vijaybritto 7y agocause Our courts never really rule for justice when muslims are in the receiving end. Time and time again. Gujarat riots, babar masjid and many more. This is a non issue for fascists but it is for the victims.
- timbuck2 7y agoAnd you remember what started it right?? 60 innocent Hindus, mostly women and children - were burned alive by muslim rioting mob.
- srean 7y agoDepends on which investigation one chooses to believe the one presided over by Modi shill or multiple independent ones that gave forensic evidence that the fire started inside and was likely an accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhra_train_burning#Banerjee_investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhra_train_burning#Banerjee_...
- nl 7y agoIs your argument that collective punishment on the basis of religion is reasonable? I'm sure I can find some atrocity attributable to religion X too. Should everyone from religion X be punished?
- iicc 7y ago>If your homeland is genociding you it's not India's problem. It is India's 'Problem'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum#Modern_political_asylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum#Modern_politic... >Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human... India is a member of the United Nations and in addition voted 'in favour of the declaration'. Get some humanity.
- quantummkv 7y ago> >Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." Yeah. They have the right to seek. And India has the right to reject. > Get some humanity. Oh I have humanity, you know. But my humanity gives first preference to my own country's citizens. Unfortunately, India's resources are already strained by it's own large population. I cannot in good conscience let more people into the country when the already present citizens are grappling with strained natural resources. Fortunately, many Muslim countries have the resources to take in the oppressed Muslims into their countries without issues. But for some reason they won't take them in. You should redirect your energies there.
- dang 7y agoPlease do not perpetuate flamewars on HN. You did a lot of that in this thread, and we don't want it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoWe ban accounts for political flamewar and for personal attacks. Please don't do this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- RealityVoid 7y agoThis reply is incredibly lacking in empathy. It's horrifying to regard genocide and death so nonchalantly.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoThat's the typical mentality of Modi supporters. This is the reason they're called Modi worshippers
- vms20591 7y agoExactly. People with such overly idealist mindset don't think through the fact that, what they consider to be a safe bubble around them, will eventually be shrunken by someone/some group, with even bigger mindset.
- enugu 7y agoExactly, so it is a good thing that Hindus who have emigrated from an actual genocide(not a speculation) with scant notice in major media both in India and abroad, are finally getting a chance at citizenship Given the opposition, the CAA law might be struck down. The absurdity of much of this thread is that measures which help active victims of genocide are being opposed. The book Blood Telegram, by Gary Bass about a state department memo, documents one aspect of how this genocide was buried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_Kissinger,_and_a_Forgotten_Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_Kis...
- webartisan 7y agoThis assumes people vote on election manifestos, which is far from the truth, at least in India. How many people who voted for the current government do you think would know what NRC meant when they voted? Infact, does the general mass understand it even to date?
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago"Throwing a couple million people in camps is just like technical debt" is a strong contender for Worst Analogy of the Year.
- dang 7y agoWe detached this flamewar from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822056.