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I really struggle to understand the Indian right wing perspective. There is absolutely no practical way to achieve their goal of a theocratic nation with the co
by puranjay 7y ago
I really struggle to understand the Indian right wing perspective. There is absolutely no practical way to achieve their goal of a theocratic nation with the country still being intact.
As much as they might want to fantasize about it, you can't wish away 200M minorities. Nor can you economically progress if 200M minorities are ghettoized.
- saq7 7y agoI agree, though real economic progress doesn't seem like a priority for the government as can be witnessed by the slowdown and silly policies like demonetization.
- puranjay 7y agoI just think most people simply underestimate how many people 200M really is. They also grossly overestimate the number of people on "their" side.
- jagannathtech 7y ago"goal of a theocratic nation" That's either dishonest or ignorant comment. Indian right wing is just tired of all so called 'secular' political parties creating unjust laws and schemes to win the minority, read muslim, votebank. the right wing just asks for equality in laws without religious discrimination.
- mav3rick 7y agoLol CAA + NRC is literally religious discrimination
- puranjay 7y agoI've lived in India all my life and there has never been a single instance in my life where a religious minority has benefited at my expense. I was never denied admission to a college, a job, or a rental apartment because of my religion. The supposedly appeased minority, on the other hand, routinely struggles to get a rental apartment.
- dang 7y agoPlease stop using HN for political, ideological, and/or national flamewar. You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, as you'll see if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- random314 7y agoThe model they have in mind is israel
- puranjay 7y agoMost such models tend to fall apart when scaled to 1.4B people
- braindead_in 7y agoThe 200M Indian Muslims are already ghettoized. And they do not mix. RSS's vision of Hindu Majoritarian India is a constitutional democracy without any minority appeasement.