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I really dislike what BJP is doing with internet in india. Proper authoritarian. I hope they lose in Karnataka and other states in coming months.
by isanjay 3y ago
I really dislike what BJP is doing with internet in india. Proper authoritarian.
I hope they lose in Karnataka and other states in coming months.
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- hnbad 3y agoThey're far-right Hindu nationalists. I'm not sure authoritarianism from an ethnonationalist party is particularly surprising.
- 0xDEF 3y ago>ethnonationalist No one ethnic group makes up more than 10% of their supporters. They are religious populists.
- a_humean 3y agoThey are very much far right Hindu nationalist, but its probably a stretch to call them ethnonationalist given the ethnic diversity of that grouping.
- hnbad 3y agoI agree the term is imprecise but it's certainly not a stretch and I'm not the first person to refer to them as such: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41301-020-00234-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41301-020-00234-4 Hindutva may be more about culture than biology but the best descriptor I can find is "völkisch nationalism" which doesn't have a good English translation ("Volk" being a more abstract idea than ethnicity but more tangible than cultural identity): the idea of Muslims as a residual contaminant of Islamic colonialism that must be excised to restore the purity of a Hindu India strongly resembles the "blood and soil" ideology of Nazi Germany which sought to restore the "birthright" of the "Aryan race" despite the majority of Germans not being considered "pure Aryans" (and declarations of "Aryan-ness" often being more pragmatic than scientific because the entire idea was based on mythology not actual history). I could have called them fascist as many scholars agree that Hindutva should be considered a fascist ideology in its structure and application despite having no direct lineage from Italian fascism but then someone would have pointed out that "it's not actually fascism" and we could have debated that definition instead. It's a nationalist populist movement that attempts to displace one cultural and ethnic minority it deems as invasive by empowering another it deems pure while maintaining a pretense of secularism and democracy and it does so by promising to restore an imagined historical greatness and a return to "tradition". Call it ethnonationalist or fascist, either way it would be the obvious bad guy in any piece of historical fiction. That other bad guys exist at the same time doesn't negate this point (after all, we don't need to defend 1930s/1940s Japan, Italy or Spain to point out that Germany was bad or vice versa).
- eunos 3y agoPretty sure Cong will do the same. India take unlicensed communication seriously. Even plane wifi doesn't work when it flies over Indian airspace.
- SanderNL 3y ago“Unlicensed communication”. Now that’s an interesting way to put it.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoSomewhat related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj
- eunos 3y agoIndia also regulate satellite telephone heavily iirc
- xxpor 3y agoI believe that's because the Mumbai attackers used satphones to communicate with each other.
- isanjay 3y ago> Pretty sure Cong will do the same I hate Congress too.
- eunos 3y agoIndia has no neolib party or libertarian party unfortunately
- jimsimmons 3y agoClassic sanghi whatavoutism to render any criticism irrelevant
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- stuppo 3y agoThey are going to loose Karanataka because theier administration was bad. As it should be not. Not beacuse of internet or authroization. Governance remember INC guys is what elects people. Now if you guys can convince Rahul to step and appoint some honest good guy we might at last have some opposition. A good ooposition is very very needed in India. What we have is just far-left Islamist and communists. Against those people would prefer far-right hindus. I am still unsure who to vote. No way i am going to vote INC. That leaves me with other options(Really BJP should be punished for their affairs in Kar).
- stereoradonc 3y agoWhere's the alternative, dude? You'd want a annointed clown in their place?
- isanjay 3y agoI can dislike multiple parties mate. But BJP coming 3 terms in a row is not good for India. IMO
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- zapdrive 3y agoThey must be doing something right to keep getting re-elected.
- naravara 3y agoHonestly it's probably more to do with the weakness, short-sightedness, and incompetence of their opposition. It's a mark against them that they aren't winning landslides considering who they're up against.
- newswasboring 3y agoYes. I would rather have Rahul Gandhi than Narendra Modi. Rahul Gandhi is not trying to actively destroy the social fabric of the country.
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- eklavya 3y agoOh boy, where do I start. It's precisely the policies of Congress that have damaged the social fabric since before the independence. You would rather have that fool at the helm with rampant corruption, I am glad the majority thinks otherwise.