Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi...
by throwaway250 on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:25PM
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You're wrong in thinking that just because a community is a minority they must be subject to persecution there. That's not necessarily true. If that was the case then Muslim population in India wouldn't have gone up from 9% to 14%. Also Hindus are a majority in India but still Hindus of Indian Kashmir were ethnically cleansed.
Also why should the treatment of Hindu minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh shouldn't be up for discussion? All of these are part of the same historical narrative. Just because Muslims created a separate country and expelled most Hindus from there doesn't mean we should stop talking about it.
Stop thinking in terms of "X are the real victims", "Y are the real aggressors". It leads to a never-ending cycle of hatred and violence. Everyone is human, everyone deserves protection, and everyone is capable of doing good and evil at different times and in different places.
GP didn't say "all Hindus" and they definitely didn't say "Hindus outside India", which is who you're talking about.
Your ancestors experienced "persecution of a minority" in their homelands, and that's what GP is also referring to. It is always wrong, no matter who the persecutor is and who the minority is. But it's possible for people of Group A to be the minority in one place and the persecutor in another. Sometimes it's the same individuals, because they want revenge. But often it's people saying "Well what we're doing isn't so bad, did you hear they do X bad thing to our people in other countries?" These are destructive patterns of thought - they corrode societies and nations. Focus on making the place where you live positive, happy, and peaceful instead of pointing fingers.
This comment thread is about India, so GP was talking about persecution of minorities there.