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From personal experience, most Indians in the tech space are conservative-leaning. I don't network a lot, but I do talk to people enough to know that "liberal"

From personal experience, most Indians in the tech space are conservative-leaning. I don't network a lot, but I do talk to people enough to know that "liberal" in the western sense is a very rare viewpoint in this industry. E: I should mention that I am Indian.

manifestdissent 6y ago
The country has become nationalistic to a nonsensical degree. I’ve met multiple people who have refused to use PayTM because they think it is Chinese. This won’t end well.
- square_usual 6y ago
  That is really funny to me, because PayTM's founder is supposedly very tight with the BJP, and they also rode the demonetization wave hard with the full-page ad featuring Modi.
  - manifestdissent 6y ago
    Fascism rarely has any internal consistency or meaning. It’s an ideology of hate towards the other and sucks to be you if you’re the other. It’s not surprising that they turned on him. If he had bothered to read history, he’d have read what happens to most supporters and collaborators of such regimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives Fascists are an ouroboros of hate. They all eat themselves.
    - shard972 6y ago
      Huh, funny how even when fascism makes no sense, its just more proof that it's fascism, because it makes no sense in this definition ,or something like that i guess....
- kranner 6y ago
  Another instance is a spate of recent 1-star reviews on Amazons with comments like "Great product, works as described and value for money, but I'm giving it 1 star because it's made in China". Seems to me Amazon is letting this slide because that's where the wind is blowing now.
justforfunhere 6y ago
I would go one step further and say that most Indians in the tech space come from Upper Caste, well to do Middle Class families with enough money to give them a comfortable chance at getting into a decent college in India/Abroad. This gives them a sense of entitlement that is very hard to shake off. This also makes them partially blind to the kind of hardship most poor Indians have to face and live with for the entirety of their lives. Income inequality has been diminishing in India, but it still a major force as it tends to drive the kind of demographic that would end up in certain type of jobs or positions within bureaucracy.
- shard972 6y ago
  And white SV programmers don't have a sense of entitlement?
- poma88 6y ago
  Exactly this: where is that exaggerated sense of entitlement coming from? Who else finds it insane? It is not only caste. It is a sense of superiority.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    It comes from not wanting to share their wealth with those who have less, and helps maintain or increase their standard of living. I know business owners that will vote for lower taxes as a single issue. They could not care less that their own nieces and nephews were being screwed by the labor laws their “low tax” politicians were supporting. What is most important is enhancing the relative position of themselves and their children in society.
- boruto 6y ago
  I completely disagree with this comment. I am from the so called privileged upper caste who father had to ride a rickshaw to send me to college. I still remember thinking to join some other college because the fee was raised in 2008. Take your propaganda to somewhere else. Before I am name called I would say I am not a BJP supporter.
naruvimama 6y ago
You are the one labelling them, different countries have different histories. People usually labelled "Hindu right wing" by the english media have nothing in common with the western idea of conservative. They are strongly pluralistic, believe in smaller communities and tribes preserving their identity, nature loving, sympathetic to vegetarianism, not homophobic, not against abortion, strong believers in climate change and eco friendly policies.
- kondu 6y ago
  "pluralistic", yet the current govt seems to want to impose Hindi in the non hindi-speaking-majority states.
- manifestdissent 6y ago
  Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis established nature preserves. You had to ask for permission to experiment on a worm not the untermenschen. They funded programs to populate the forests of Europe with Big Game like Bison All political movements take the shape of the territory they occupy. When fascism arises it uses symbols of its host society. Indians won't use a phyrgian cap they'll use saffron
  - naruvimama 6y ago
    Would they be more "liberal" if they went around carrying out genocides, ethnic cleansing, destroying ancient temples and idols. Indians are pluralistic and have preserved their unique pluralistic identities for 1000s of years against all odds. The world has seen the erasure of almost all the ancient civilisations and cultures. How "liberal" of people who claim to stand with the rights of "red Indians" to preserve their identity and turning around to tell the "brown Indians" that they do not deserve an identity. I am truly shocked by the hypocrisy/shallowness/ignorance of the self appointed "liberal elite".

manifestdissent 6y ago

The country has become nationalistic to a nonsensical degree. I’ve met multiple people who have refused to use PayTM because they think it is Chinese. This won’t end well.

square_usual 6y ago
That is really funny to me, because PayTM's founder is supposedly very tight with the BJP, and they also rode the demonetization wave hard with the full-page ad featuring Modi.
- manifestdissent 6y ago
  Fascism rarely has any internal consistency or meaning. It’s an ideology of hate towards the other and sucks to be you if you’re the other. It’s not surprising that they turned on him. If he had bothered to read history, he’d have read what happens to most supporters and collaborators of such regimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives Fascists are an ouroboros of hate. They all eat themselves.
  - shard972 6y ago
    Huh, funny how even when fascism makes no sense, its just more proof that it's fascism, because it makes no sense in this definition ,or something like that i guess....
kranner 6y ago
Another instance is a spate of recent 1-star reviews on Amazons with comments like "Great product, works as described and value for money, but I'm giving it 1 star because it's made in China". Seems to me Amazon is letting this slide because that's where the wind is blowing now.

justforfunhere 6y ago

I would go one step further and say that most Indians in the tech space come from Upper Caste, well to do Middle Class families with enough money to give them a comfortable chance at getting into a decent college in India/Abroad. This gives them a sense of entitlement that is very hard to shake off. This also makes them partially blind to the kind of hardship most poor Indians have to face and live with for the entirety of their lives. Income inequality has been diminishing in India, but it still a major force as it tends to drive the kind of demographic that would end up in certain type of jobs or positions within bureaucracy.

shard972 6y ago
And white SV programmers don't have a sense of entitlement?
poma88 6y ago
Exactly this: where is that exaggerated sense of entitlement coming from? Who else finds it insane? It is not only caste. It is a sense of superiority.
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
  It comes from not wanting to share their wealth with those who have less, and helps maintain or increase their standard of living. I know business owners that will vote for lower taxes as a single issue. They could not care less that their own nieces and nephews were being screwed by the labor laws their “low tax” politicians were supporting. What is most important is enhancing the relative position of themselves and their children in society.
boruto 6y ago
I completely disagree with this comment. I am from the so called privileged upper caste who father had to ride a rickshaw to send me to college. I still remember thinking to join some other college because the fee was raised in 2008. Take your propaganda to somewhere else. Before I am name called I would say I am not a BJP supporter.

naruvimama 6y ago

You are the one labelling them, different countries have different histories. People usually labelled "Hindu right wing" by the english media have nothing in common with the western idea of conservative. They are strongly pluralistic, believe in smaller communities and tribes preserving their identity, nature loving, sympathetic to vegetarianism, not homophobic, not against abortion, strong believers in climate change and eco friendly policies.

kondu 6y ago
"pluralistic", yet the current govt seems to want to impose Hindi in the non hindi-speaking-majority states.
manifestdissent 6y ago
Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis established nature preserves. You had to ask for permission to experiment on a worm not the untermenschen. They funded programs to populate the forests of Europe with Big Game like Bison All political movements take the shape of the territory they occupy. When fascism arises it uses symbols of its host society. Indians won't use a phyrgian cap they'll use saffron
- naruvimama 6y ago
  Would they be more "liberal" if they went around carrying out genocides, ethnic cleansing, destroying ancient temples and idols. Indians are pluralistic and have preserved their unique pluralistic identities for 1000s of years against all odds. The world has seen the erasure of almost all the ancient civilisations and cultures. How "liberal" of people who claim to stand with the rights of "red Indians" to preserve their identity and turning around to tell the "brown Indians" that they do not deserve an identity. I am truly shocked by the hypocrisy/shallowness/ignorance of the self appointed "liberal elite".