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> Is it a sign of so called developed tech industry which considers religions like Christianity and Islam as superstition bending down in front of Hindu theocra
by yawpitch 4y ago
> Is it a sign of so called developed tech industry which considers religions like Christianity and Islam as superstition bending down in front of Hindu theocracy?
Not likely… it’s more that your average non-Hindu who has never been to India for a protracted period of time has likely zero idea who Narendra Modi is, has never even heard of the BJP (much less the RSS) and hasn’t the slightest clue how to distinguish a Hindu-nationalist utterance from a Hindu-non-nationalist one. If they bothered to hear either.
I also think it’s incorrect to say that the tech industry a) is all that secular or b) is anywhere near as dismissive of (especially Christian) religiosity as you’ve implied. In the USA it’s bad for business (and recruiting) to be anti-(especially Christian) faith, and it’s outright illegal to actually discriminate against any given faith (though a lot of Christians make a big show of feeling discriminated against when their performative faith marketing isn’t aggressively promoted, see also the annual War On Christmas on Faux News).
More likely than deference to Hindu theocracy — which doesn’t really (yet) exist, Modi is a power-seeking populist who leverages zealots, not a zealot — is a less than informed attempt at inclusivity and an inability to distinguish faith-X-nationalism (always bad) from faith-X (often, but far from always, bad).