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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> How is this related to the British? Caste is not their invention. Technically, it is. This happens when people who do not understand a particular society or its conflict hierarchy start writing the laws for that society. From Wikipedia
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> It's about preventing very real, very tangible discriminatory effects happening to people TODAY, right now. Draconian versions of such anti-discrimination laws exist in India. They are weaponized to settle personal scores to such
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Good. The West does not understand caste. Their only comparison is slavery which is completely irrelevant. The closest thing to caste in the West is class. This is the British social classification experiment all over again where they came
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> what is the geopolitical benefit they are getting by engaging in this? It is an open, yet officially unstated, policy of the Indian government since the 1950s that the USSR/Russia must never be put in a position wherein it fully t
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> you gotta ask what India even is One, or all, of the following: * the subcontinent * the civilization and peoples that made the subcontinent its home * the borders and the political entity in control of those borders (past, present, fu
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> They see it as liberal men voluntarily limiting their future contribution to the gene pool There is some truth in that. Almost all religions place emphasis on progeny. So religious conservatives tend to procreate more. Hedonists don&#x
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> special privileges to minorities Is not secularism. I would be happy if the constitution openly stated that Hindus must remain second-class citizens in the eyes of the law and that minorities will be first-class citizens. This is hardl
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Different states then passed laws. A "secular" state will treat all places of prayer and worship the same. If it controls only Hindu temples but not churches and mosques, it is not "secular." > Ofcourse they do
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Secularism is a constitutional principle The constitution can say whatever it wants. The only thing that matters is what actually happens on the ground. Successive governments have adopted Hinduphobic positions and laws while claiming
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Wasn't the work on UPI started in 2009 and the vision statement was prepared in 2012 Is this[1] or is this not P. Chidambaram, Indian Finance Minister during the Congress-led UPA regime, criticizing the government's digital p
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
For the same reason that the Republicans continue believing, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that they have a chance with black voters. No matter what the BJP tries, they will never get more than 10-15% of the Muslim vote. Hindus acce
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Domestic mismanagement in India can hardly be called a sanction by the U.S. There is more to this. The partition of India in 1947 divided Punjab in such a way that most of the fertile land went to Pakistan. Food shortages were soon a r
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> A quick search didn‘t turn up any current US sanctions either. The US and Indian governments have had bad relations for a long time. The US has the habit of weaponizing anything and everything. While not exactly sanctions, people don&#
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> and condoning violence Almost all Hindu gods carry weapons. There are stories where they fight and kill demons, and stories where they or their avatars kill their own relatives (sons, mothers, brothers etc). The Bhagavad Gita itsel
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 4y ago
Two decades back, Richard Posner wrote: "[Dershowitz] makes a point that only the most doctrinaire civil libertarians ... deny: if the stakes are high enough, torture is permissible. No one who doubts that this is the case should be in
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 4y ago
A video of his 2019 speech that got him into trouble.[1] For those who don't understand Hindi, he is saying: "A small question. Their names, the names of these thieves, why are they Modi, Modi, Modi. Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narend
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 4y ago
> India is completely balkanizing right now The 1980s and 1990s saw the assassinations of the sitting Prime Minister of India, the sitting Chief Minister of Punjab, the just-retired Army Chief and the former Prime Minister with simultane
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 4y ago
> Founded in 1925 on the lines of Mussolini’s Italian Fasces of Combat Typical Hinduphobic article that erases atrocities committed against Hindus from its narrative. That is why there is no mention of stone-pelting at Hindu processions