• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    This is a Gangetic problem, not an Indian problem

    South India and Maharashtra have far less fundamentalism (I’m not trying to be chauvinist here, I’ve heard this from multiple non-desis who only learned what these provinces were after visiting India)

    There’s a strange type of “exclusively punch down + religious fundamentalism” brainworm complex that peaks in Northern India, including Bengal. It resembles the right-wing rhetoric that I see from certain Latinos

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      10 months ago

      lol , no it is because in Maharashtra and in South India there was a anti vedic movement (Periyar , Ambedkar , Ligyayat , Joytiba Phule ) where religious reforms were carried out but I won’t give these states free pass . Maha is ruled by Sena type extremists and TN has considerable casteism. Its a whitewash to say south India doesn’t have religious problem.

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        10 months ago

        Sure, but just anecdotally speaking, every Indian I’ve talked to online (so a few dozen) who had takes like the OP tweet ended up being northern. Very often Gangetic, Nepali Bahuns, some Assamese, a few from Uttar Pradesh, a few Bengalis. Not as many Punjabis as you’d think given their obvious ancestry differences.

        a decent number of them have a weird combination of reactionary punching down + sucking up to white nationalists + defeatism

        All of these people were english-fluent enough that I could understand them perfectly, so I’d imagine direct material conditions are not the problem, and that it has more to do with the previous history of the gangetic region and the cultural quirks that materialized from it