The India-related stuff going on in BC and Canada sounds important and big. If I’m being honest though I have a hard time following it. There’s a lot of history and nuance I think I’m missing from my knowledge base.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2024
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Sikhs want Punjab to be its own country, separate from India. India post Congress is ruled by Hindu nationalists who want to rewrite history books and erase anything positive that happened in precolonial India (which wasn't really a country in the modern sense, but a changing set of integrated states) under non Hindu rule. The BJP are fascist shit stains and literally ordering hits on Sikh activists abroad for trying to promote Sikh separatism. There's really not much more nuance than that. Fuck Modi.
The documentary actually acts as a good starting point for what happened and what led up to it
The focus is on this particular event, but it gives enough background to understand it and also know what to read up on afterwards
Still hard to believe they killed a Canadian on our soil.
India came to be as a protest by the occupied against the british occupation. Everyone agreed that the british had to go. Now that it isn't a threat, parts of it want their old identity back. As they were mostly different kingdoms before british and french controlled the sub continent.
Hindus have been taking credit for all the stuff in the region as the sole driving force, by feeding propaganda, rewriting history, by swallowing other smaller culture/religions and calling them reincarnation of their hindu gods. It just adds to the fire.
India also made YouTube ban this video on the Kashmir Genocide
Why the duck does YouTube comply with this? Are they only banned in India?
Yes it's a regional block. We can still watch it and so can Indians with a VPN. It will just not show up on feeds of non VPN users (and possibly India registered accounts)
This is especially important since India is committing the Genocide in Kashmir and does not want their population to learn about it.
That still crazy. Fuck YouTube.
Because they don't care about their users.
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It's only blocked in India, while not great we can still access it and the information is still out there for anyone with a VPN.
Youtube needs to die.