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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by kalam_throw on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:23AM (#36114290)
Most Indians were never secular. Before, they hadn’t got a voice or representation. BJP came into power by tapping into the latent sentiment in majority of Indians.

It's much like how Trump was elected.

If you think that majority of Indians were ever secular, I think that you never left the bubble of upper middle class, city based society.

Hindus are, generally much more advanced than Muslim in terms of education, finances, etc. and couldn’t be bothered to cause communal violence because they have much more to lose. And the ones that are left behind, didn't have a uniting force. BJP/RSS has accomplished that.

The people lynching Muslim for eating beef are very rural, very uneducated Hindus with much less to lose. And the rest of them openly support them.

I will say, 80-95% of Hindus were never ever secular. BJP is creating new zealots now, but they didn't need to do so to come to power.

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by forgetfulness on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:19AM (#36114813)
BJP is also hard at work at creating a single, homogeneous Hindu and Indian identity, where something more of a cultural sphere existed, to create fanatics to their cause. They're re-engineering Indian society in a way that we've seen end up in tears for everyone in the past, in other places.
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by Utkarsh_Mood on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:08PM (#36115243)
>BJP is also hard at work at creating a single, homogeneous Hindu and Indian identity

can you give particular examples of actions or legislation you think they've taken that exemplifies this?

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by throwaway384629 on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:08PM (#36116922)
BJP brought the Citizenship Act and the National Register of Citizens to act against the minority.

>> "Will remove every single infiltrator, except Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs: Amit Shah" [1]

Archive.org snapshot of now deleted tweet from BJP official account [2]

[1] https://indianexpress.com/elections/will-remove-every-single...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190520193044/https://twitter.c...

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by codersfocus on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:11PM (#36116405)
I'm not Indian, but I heard that there is also a rift between south Indians (Tamil) and the northerners. Are Tamils Hindu as well? Where do they play into this?
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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by isanjay on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:30PM (#36117752)
Tamil Nadu is also a majority Hindu state.

Calling it rift is a bit of a stretch.

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