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So "Yogi Adityanath, the hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh" wants to enact racist policies in UP, but can't seem to find his way to force men to stop raping/murdering women and children.
Hindu monk my ass.
Are hindu monks generally very good at rape prevention?
Maybe they should have them all sew a special patch on their clothes. I'm thinking maybe a yellow crescent?
What the fuck are you doing, India??
Modi has been a far-right Hindu Nationalist this whole time, this is in line with the rest of the RSS partys goals.
Sad.
Honestly, the Hindu nationalists are pretty crazy. Dare I say, roughly as crazy as the nationalist Christians we have in the states.
If you mix nationalism with religion, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Not to defend them too much, they are crazy.
But Hindus were enslaved by Muslims for centuries, which started with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Delhi_(1398)
He singlehandedly destroyed India, all of it, and it wasn't to regain any independence till the 20th century.
Sure, but just as the Holocaust does not give Jewish nationalists carte blanche to ethnically cleanse German people, the sack of Delhi does not give Hindu nationalists carte blanche to ethnically cleanse Muslims.
I absolutely agree.
I just think we need to remember the emotional backdrop, we need to get them to chill the ever loving F* out, but this shouldn't also be like "oh, god, I wonder why they would ever do such a thing!"
If the germans hadn't been decent post-ww2 and jews started killing germans we'd be pissed and force them to stop by any means necessary, but we wouldn't be like "this is unthinkable!?!?".
We have to figure out how to build peace while appreciating the historical context.
Sheesh, you know your society has some rather deeply rooted issues when knowing someone's name is enough to cause major problems like this. Not saying name discrimination is a rare thing, here in Finland it's common knowledge having a Romani/Gypsy name makes finding a job a lot harder, but enough to cause major issues to the restaurant simply if your customers know the names of the employees?
"hardline Hindu monk"
What does he practice, full contact yoga? Mahabharata style asceticism?
Thank goodness for religion though, right? Just think where we would be without it!
Don’t you mean public health officials? You know, the ones wielding the power to actually make this bullshit rule?