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Watching Americans map their ideas around rabid white nationalism onto Hindus says more about the naturally violent tendencies of the west than it does about In
by screye 3y ago
Watching Americans map their ideas around rabid white nationalism onto Hindus says more about the naturally violent tendencies of the west than it does about Indians.
Typing hindu in all caps does not change the heterogeneity of the people and it doesn't change the millenia long welcoming nature of the native people of this land.
The HINDU only exists in the imagination of the western academic.
- deanCommie 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi#Hindutva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi#Hindutva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva Are these western (I'm not American) inventions?
- screye 3y agoNo, but framing them as a religious crusade is. > almost fascist in the classical sense, ethnic absolutism I would be very careful with using Wikipedia as a source for politically fraught & contemporary issues. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva#:~:text=Hindutva%20ideology%20has%20focused%20on%20the%20following%20issues%3A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva#:~:text=Hindutva%20id... When the article moves from the the editorialized introduction to their stated goals, it doesn't sound as bad. > Replace "pseudo-secularism" with "true secularism", the latter being the Western-style separation of religion and state. Decentralize and reform the Indian economy, end the socialist, centrally-planned, state-owned economic model. Address Christian and Islamic proselytization, religious conversion practices and the arithmetic of religious communities in India; insist that Muslims and Christians accept its doctrine of equality of religions. That's western Libertarianism in a nutshell.