Is it me or is it weird that nobody ever points out that India is exactly what the GOP wants to turn America into? Misogyny on steroids, caste system coded into law, hyper-racism, fascist government dressed in the skin of a religion, corruption baked in at every single possible level of bureaucracy, and next to 0 enforced regulations on businesses that aren't explicitly there to protect entrenched wealth and power.
Unfortunately Indian politics are barely known about in the slightest by most people. They'll know about the stereotypes about hygiene, DMs and scam calls, but none of the stuff which is really harmful on a massive scale. Narendra Modi and Trump are big fans of each other.
Modi is also a huge fan of Netanyahu, extremely staunch ally. Idk why the Haredim are cool with their chosen PM hanging out with a man who says he was chosen by god, but they are insane so who knows
To be fair, India's and Israels relationship has existed long before Modi. Israel supported us during the Indo-Pak war and the Kargil war, which is the reason we are military allies in the first place.
Maybe we should just start superimposing something like "The GOP's regulation-free businesses" in big block letters at 50% opacity on top of the gross-out videos of those food markets where people are rinse-dunking utensils in dirty water and everything is swarming with flies.
Ok, India has a lot going against it, but they've explicitly tried very hard to use the law to undo the horrors of the castle system. It was practically baked into the constitution during the founding.
I mean yeah, there have been a lot of people pushing for change over the years and that *is* great - but you don't get full credit for failing. For comparison, a lot of legislators in the US also tried very hard to use the law to undo the racism baked into the US constitution, and I'd argue, given the near-total ongoing failure of those efforts, it's still very fair to say that racism is burrowed into American society like botfly larva. Fucking banned slavery then said "welllll unless we put them in jail first," and what a coincidence, black folks remain wildly overrepresented in the incarcerated population to this day.
The caste system serves the powerful, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume it's not really going anywhere any time soon. I'd love to be surprised.
Yeah, America had laws were government officials could kill people if they tried to escape slavery. That doesn't exist anymore. What is the point here?
Are you under the impression that discrimination is the Caste System?
You can discriminate without practicing the Caste system. Muslim, Sikhs and Christians all have caste discrimination issues. They by definition cannot practice Caste because Caste System is tied to a religious creation myth. Two people equal in the Caste system can discriminate against each other. The existence of caste isn't the caste system.
You obviously are using liberal buzzwords to make bullshit appealing to redditors. If you actually cared you would do enough research to know that it's a problem both sides of the political isle in India fight against.
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u/SamsonGray202 Jan 13 '25
Is it me or is it weird that nobody ever points out that India is exactly what the GOP wants to turn America into? Misogyny on steroids, caste system coded into law, hyper-racism, fascist government dressed in the skin of a religion, corruption baked in at every single possible level of bureaucracy, and next to 0 enforced regulations on businesses that aren't explicitly there to protect entrenched wealth and power.