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Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by LarryMullins on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:15PM (#34559364)
Subjectively wrong (e.g. you disagree), or objectively wrong? How could such a thing be objectively determined at all?

There are people alive today who grew up in an India subjugated by the UK. It wasn't so long ago in the grand scheme of things.

Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by mrtksn on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:16PM (#34559372)
Objectively wrong, there’s no evidence of ongoing British invasion of India.
Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by LarryMullins on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:18PM (#34559396)
The claim is that the UK once invaded and subjugated India, recently enough to matter. Not that India is presently in that state.
Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by mrtksn on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:22PM (#34559445)
The analogy works when the owner of the foreign media also is waging a war against you or your allies. Just because some time in the past you had a military conflict doesn’t make it the same thing because something happened in the past doesn’t have immediate and irreversible effects. Since there are no immediate risks, you get the chance to respond and correct and that’s why you can have free media.

Besides, everyone was once invaded by the British.

Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by LarryMullins on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:36PM (#34559581)
What you're saying is that you, subjectively, think that the UK's past invasion of India isn't relevant because it was long ago and not ongoing (and because the UK did this to lots of people, that makes it a lesser crime?) And I'm saying that quite a lot of people don't agree with your subjective judgement.

Objectively, the facts are that the UK once invaded India and some Indians alive today personally experienced that subjugation. But what any of that means or implies is subjective.

Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by mrtksn on Sunday January 29, 2023 @06:06AM (#34567001)
No, Objectively UK's past invasion of India doesn't create a cause for British media to pose immediate and irreversible risks to India.

This doesn't mean that Indians shouldn't be cautious but gives them an opportunity for healthy debate thanks to input from outside. Because there's no immediate and irreversible dangers, they can counter the British arguments or get something from it to make their own position better.

Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by selimthegrim on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:38PM (#34559615)
That’s not the invasion they have a chip on their shoulder about
Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal by Gibbon1 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @06:31AM (#34567122)
There are a lot of people today in India subjugated by Indians as well.