India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by boring_baduku on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:54AM (#25978163)

Both the things you are talking about were perpetrated by the Congress party. The current crisis is also their gift. Why are you generalizing the country based on that? It seems you just witnessed these things but never understood why they happened and who were the perpetrators.

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by aparsons on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:01AM (#25979304)

I posted it expecting downvotes. On the surface, yes I am generalizing the country. But really - and perhaps I should have made it more clear - the reason for my disillusionment were structural/cultural issues:

- Willingness to oppress people, and keep the oppressed down when you’re supposed to be helping them. Current events are very relevant to the past events.

- Party-over-people politics and crippling corruption - regardless of party

- Hindu extremism (brahmanism to be specific) - current government is very much guilty of this

- Rape and weaponization of rape - cultural issue across India. Will not be fixed for a long time - it is engrained in the fabric of their society.

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by srean on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:40PM (#25981298)

The IT cell head of the current ruling party -- BJP, openly divulged the identity of a teenager rape victim. This is against the law. No charges have been brought against him. Not that this is in any way surprising because the accused belong to BJP's vote bank.

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by aparsons on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:58PM (#25982512)

Question: Is there a pre-colonization “Indian” culture? I’m thinking not. The British unified disparate cultures, kingdoms, and races for ease of administration/exploitation. The country is so large - but more importantly- so different, that I don’t see how these tensions will disappear anytime soon.

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by aparsons on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:33PM (#25985563)

Religion vs culture is a subtle but important difference. Religiously, India is not very diverse, but culturally- that is, along ethic, language and racial lines - it is probably the most diverse country in the world. I never claimed the Brits united India culturally (except perhaps over a shared hatred of the colonizer?), but rather administratively (which continues today)

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by selimthegrim on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:37AM (#25989564)

There is literal process studied by sociologists called Brahmanization where local elites were coopted and admitted to caste

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by dang on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:57AM (#25985987)

We've banned that account. Unfortunately, you also perpetuated the flamewar in this thread quite badly. Please don't do that on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by dang on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:56AM (#25985982)

Flamewar comments will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN.

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