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Just like it's reasonable for America to worry about the group that conducted forced sterilization (Jim Crow racists) and worry about the slide back to them att
by _bin_ 1y ago
Just like it's reasonable for America to worry about the group that conducted forced sterilization (Jim Crow racists) and worry about the slide back to them attaining power, it makes sense to do the same for socialists.
Ideologies that further concentrate power in the hands of a central state - in India's case, things like Hindutva nationalism and socialism - are risky, particularly in developing nations where liberty is less firmly-established, and should be given a stern eye when they appear.
And, just like "southern democrat" is a "bad word" in America for obvious reasons and doesn't imply "democrat from the south", "socialist" is a bit taboo in India.
- cryptonector 1y ago> Jim Crow racists There were forced sterilization programs in New York State in the early 20th century, and the victims weren't specifically black.
- _bin_ 1y agoSure, that's just less attributable to a coherent political faction; there were fewer than fifty that occurred in total on mentally ill women.
- cryptonector 1y agoSnobs come in all colors and parties. Jim Crow racists there were plenty, but the eugenics ideas and projects of the 1920s in the North were horrible in their own right.
- wqaatwt 1y agoEugenics and forced sterilization were a major progressive policy back in those days. It transcended political lines e.g. in 1912 Wilson, Roosevelt and Taft all supported it.