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I'm surprised they air John Oliver's verbal diarrhea there at all. It's highly US specific, and moreover US liberal specific. I don't see why Indians would be i
by m0zg 7y ago
I'm surprised they air John Oliver's verbal diarrhea there at all. It's highly US specific, and moreover US liberal specific. I don't see why Indians would be interested in much of what he says _before_ it was banned. Now they'll probably watch it though.
It's like some crank in Germany thought that Merkel was literally Hitler, and spoke about it every night. Would you watch this in the US? I would not.
- joshschreuder 7y agoIt's not always US specific, Oliver has had pieces on other world leaders such as BoJo and Brexit, and Bolsonaro to name a couple. A lot of the feature pieces are US-centric but a fair bit of US politics still applies on the world stage, plus it is interesting to learn how many US systems like healthcare and pharmaceuticals are completely broken.
- smt1 7y agoI disagree. Oliver seems to have a pretty international audience (and a personal ancedote, I have cousins in India who watch him). He covers international current events quite often and HBO content is widely distributed internationally, not to mention YouTube etc.
- ak1234 7y agoEven if whatever you say is right, which is not, why censor it? Why remove it? Radical Hinduism is more dangerous than radical Islam. The harmless looking vegetarian upper caste Hindus who work in the next cubicle is nothing but a cauldron of hate and bigotry. After all they started practicing un-touchability and casteism before Westerners knew a continent called Africa existed.