#bjp sucks

[curiosity-kills-literally]

I've seen many people on tumblr and twitter go: anyone who celebrates ram mandir is a hindu nationalist. I'm laughing at that. On a more serious note though, do you guys understand how harmful and untruthful that is, like?!!?

I think that's a stretch. A VERY big stretch.

I suppose being a hindu nationalist would mean a person who considers India a Hindu state and who would want to assert Hindu dominance over the political and social landscape of India, blatantly disregarding, and in some cases, even trying to harm people following different faiths and their ways.

But guess what, a person can celebrate the consecration of Lord Ram without wanting Hindu hegemony over the country, without wanting to undermine the equal claim that other faiths and cultures have on it.

Anyone familiar with the Hinduism would know the respect and admiration Lord Ram holds in hearts of a lot of hindus. People see him as their idol, as their protector. NO WONDER they're happy about a big temple being built for him in his janmabhoomi or homeland, Ayodhya, according to the scriptures. And saying that someone wants Hindu supremacy in India just because they're excited about a deity being established is plainly ridiculous, one dimensional and retarded.

I'm not going to say that this isn't an attempt (and a rather successful one at that) by the BJP government at securing the hindu vote bank. I think even a blind person can see through it. Like, seriously, establishing the idol in a half-made temple? declaring a nationwide holiday? disturbing students by blasting bhajans? That's really too much.

And I'm not going to say that some people celebrating on the January 22nd are not Hindu nationalists, cause I've seen my fair share of them.

BUT GENERALISING THE REST CELEBRATING BASED ON THESE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS IS NOT FAIR!

Like, what did you expect from around a billion hindus who have been hoping for a proper and official place of worship for decades? Silence? Sorrow?

Cause if you did, then I have to say you are deliberately delusional and thick.

[artcinemas]

*a post rightfully criticising m*di’s pro israel stance and saffron politics that only benefit the fucking uc savarnas*

“exhibit xxx” appearing to defend bibi’s bestie:

[bauliya]

you know two things can be true at the same time right? you can still be proud of the fucking scientists who poured in their blood sweat and tears in this, while also being mad that it got taken over by Modi right? or are you just too set in your ways

are u gonna bully me for not standing up for the national anthem next

[eternallysetinstone]

BJP LOSING IN AYODHYA BAHAHAHAHAH

[labbaik-ya-hussain-as]

[thelunaticghost]

UP did a surprise (I'm so pleased)

[timetravellingkitty]

your throat has GOT to hurt from sucking all that bjp dick come on now

[martian-astro10]

Why are the majority of pro bjp people such big misogynists 😭😭. Like, even on Tumblr, most girls who are rightists are extremely anti women, what's up with that? As a pro bjp person, I'm so disappointed. Sucks. I see so many of them just posting stuff complimenting johnny depp, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, they're creeps and wife beaters, what is wrong with you. It makes me think that something must be wrong with ME, because I simply do not want to be associated with such people. We may be united in our sympathy for Bangladeshi Hindus, but I do not like you. I'm a girl before a Hindu. "Men suffer just as much as women" fucking idiot. You'll never be able to understand the shit my mom had to go through. How her "Hindu" in laws forced her to have an abortion because they didn't want a girl. Blind activism will never bring justice. Failure to recognise the bad in what you support leads to herd mentality.

This is why I always say, I like HINDUISM not HINDUS

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

Ohh not the constituency obviously I just meant the political party! Sorry for the confusion!

No issues if you don't want to talk about that either it's completely understandable

See, I believe that thinking about the lok sabha elections as if we're directly voting for the prime minister of the country is flawed. We're not. We're voting for the people who represent our constituency. We don't have a direct line to the prime minister. I know the ruling party has made the political atmosphere such that we care about the Brand of One Person who happens to be our prime minister but that's really not how this works and we all need to snap out of the cult of personality thing and not fall into that trap.

Of course I'm not telling you to not take into account which party you're voting for as whichever party or coalition of parties wins the majority seats will decide who the prime minister is. But also I don't think that's the only factor you should consider. Consider the profile of the candidates at least. All Indian political parties try to make it pretty hard to look into the candidates' history but you can find out with a tiny amount of research. You don't even need to do much.

We've historically never shut up about our distaste for the BJP and their shitty governance and we won't shut up about it now either. They suck. So do the other parties, let's be honest. Politicians are just like that. Sometimes it can come down to picking the least evil option, or in this specific case, the least harmful option.

I, for one, am sick of having a one party majority in the parliament. They've always ALWAYS been the worst governments in the history of our country. I just want a change. I'd prefer it if we had a coalition government again. But that's just me.

You guys are smart people and I trust you'll make decisions after thinking about it and doing some research.

P.S. If you need something immediate that can help you choose the parties you wanna vote for, please look at the recently released ELECTORAL BONDS data. That's huge.

- Mod S

[artcinemas]

if bjp wins the general election i might actually start doing tax evasion for reals this time

[your-local-femboy-bitch]

Oh hey yknow the reason countries become more intolerant as history went on was colonialism.

Ancient Africa was very gay and genderfluid, after colonialism Africa is one of the most intolerant continents.

Ancient India, while having rigid caste systems, also had protections for the Gender Non-conforming/Third Gendered Hijras who had their own protected territories, and ancient India had various genders. Post colonialism. Hindutva is spreading more and more in India, an idea founded on facism and Aryan race pyramids. Public lynching of Muslims become more and more prevalent and sanctioned by the government itself the press is suppressed we're in an authoritarian state. The Indian constitution was founded on Secularism, Inclusion, Democracy, Freedom of speech, religion. The freedom to spread religion and preach it. Trans protections are reducing every day. 1 million people of 1.4 billion hold 80% of India's wealth. Poverty might be low but only because the BJP changed the definition.

Colonialism sucks. End of discussion.

[reinedescauchemars]

i am not white. i may look white, i may pass as white in almost every single way, but i am not white

this is a very important fact to remember for people who try to erase my perspective on current affairs in india. it sucks that you want me to shut up because it’s “none of my business”, but oh? what’s that? it’s my “i’m as desi as you are” card because neither my multiracialness nor my white-passing body nor my diaspora upbringing mean that i can’t have an opinion on oppression that affects desi people! try again a bit harder next time, the pro-bjp rhetoric was sickening to read, but your head was so far up your ass it was pathetic and made me sad you really earnestly believed all that. all you did was get me to block you, which wasn’t what you wanted at all. sorry not sorry about that

anyhow, pro tip: if you want to encourage political discussion and get someone to change their stance, don’t call them uneducated. that makes you look like a coward who can’t think critically

[186-3]

oh yeah india is really cool and also the world's most populous country and has so many incredibly smart and talented people and by all means it is and should be a world superpower

it's also in the process of throwing away its democracy in favour of a racist, hypernationalist, one-party government - the same government that funded this space program, likely with the primary intention of showing off india's power for nationalist reasons

india is cool. BJP is not. if anyone here votes in india, the please kick modi to the curb.

and while you're showing off how great your country is, make sure not to get sucked up into hypernationalist behaviour

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

[mylasttwobraincellsandi]

I have to say, usually the first thing I get when I tell people where I am from is "ohhh highest literacy rate right ?". Obviously I would usually follow this up with "well literacy doesn't mean education you know." Or just laugh it off because what else exactly am I supposed to say?

Well I have decided that I will no longer disregard the fact that we have the highest literacy rate because it wasn't a fucking accident. Kerala didn't just turn into the most literate state in India. It didn't randomly acquire an extremely high HDI. None of it was an accident. And every other state in my country had the exact same opportunity. Kerala's success was the result of years of hardwork by reformers who worked day and night to erase cast based barriers to educate and discrimination in general. Kerala is not perfect but we damn well try. Our politicians are all crooks who steal and plunder but our policies work to benefit most and they don't needlessly instigate religious violence (not talking about BJP because as far as I am concerned they have no place in Kerala politics.).

Sure Kerala had some benefits from the European presence here. And we had some strong kings. But beyond that Kerala was given the same resources as the rest of the country (less resources actually since we get back less money from the government than what we actually pay in taxes. If I hear one more north Indian say something about their taxes being used badly I will riot. )

So the next time you feel the need to place south India in a different category than the rest of India please know that if we seem to have succeeded disproportionately, it was through years of work and dedication. Instead of empty words hold your own government accountable. Because all of us are the exact same. South Indians are no different from North Indians.

Oh and if Kerala Hindus eating beef bothers you that much, just suck it up and deal with it. The amount of awful comments I hear online makes me sick (especially during the floods. I will never fucking forgive the people who said we deserved to drown.)

Additionally, I also hear some people say things like "well I think South India should be its own country because you are sooo much better than us (North India.)". I am sorry but you are not doing what you think you are doing. You aren't being an "ally". You don't hear south Indians say we don't want to be part of the UOI then why are you saying it? Additionally to those people I ask, if India were to hypothetically split into two along the middle, which state gets to keep the name India? If your answer was north India then you are the problem.

[timetravellingkitty]

Your throat has got to be hurting from sucking rahul gandhi's dick for so long, pretty sure your ass hurts as well since you act like such whores for him

not sure where I implied that I like rahul gandhi, unless if hating the bjp makes you a fan, in which case he's the first person I search everytime I log into pornhub

anyways here are my actual thoughts on rahul gandhi and india alliance . also please be original in your anons next time just cause I made a funny joke once doesn't mean yall should reuse it until it becomes insufferable

[vahnithedreamer]

I'd like to point out that if all the things you mentioned above are true it's still the government's fault, whereas for Christianity and Islam it's written into their scriptures that anyone that doesn't agree with them is a "non-believer" who has a guaranteed seat in hell. It's NOT the same thing.

And the reblog is a joke. Maybe the brahminical sect didn't like say, the charvaka sect. Maybe they hated each other and the brahminical sect was the one on top. You know who else hated and fought each other? Shaivites and Vaishnavites. Go ahead,claim that shaivism was "appropriated" because vaishnavites are the big bad brahminical oppressors.

Hindu. The word literally means those on the other side of the Sindhu river. It's not even a name we gave ourselves!! It comes from the Arabs being unable to pronounce Sindhu. Who's being asked to stop animist practices under Hinduism? Now I'm from the South,and I have no clue what the BJP is doing there but here, we worship certain trees literally in the temple!! Sanatan dharma is literally a polytheistic belief with major animist roots and practices!! IF what you're saying is true, you're still blaming the world's oldest religion for something that a government has done in its last 9 years of ruling as if the OLDEST religion already carried all these hateful elements.

It's disgraceful that you were asked a question on how Hinduism deals with "infidels" and you answered with your perception of the ruling party's treatment of people who are "against" them. One wonderful characteristic of Christians and Muslims is that they take pride in their religion and culture, even while acknowledging it's flaws!!

And Mughals were the worst invasion in india, not even the British could compete. They're not seen as invaders because everyone has to be by default Hindu. They're seen as invaders because THEY WERE INVADERS. Just because a few of them were ok, like say Akbar, it doesn't mean everything was fine and dandy.

They came. They conquered. They took our resources and funnelled them back to their homelands. India went from 33 percent GDP of the entire world to 6 percent under Mughal rule. THAT IS WHAT EMPIRES DO. It was the same with the Mughals and the British.

The library of nalanda burned for 3 months!!We had the first worldwide university!! Look at bihar today. I'm not even gonna start on the caste argument because that will suck me into an unnecessary internet fight with someone I don't even know.

Stop looking at everything with your woke western views!!

im asking this out of pure ignorance but I've always wondered how does hinduism handle people who are not hindu? i know Christianity is essentially 'be the right kind of christian or go to hell' (so much as to beleive that Jewish people are literally devils, for example) but i was wondering how hinduism deals w people who are in proximity but not of the same religion. also if a dalit or lower caste person converts from hinduism to another religion, how does that affect thier life and how they're treated? appreciate your answer if u feel like explaining ^__^

it depends, in some parts of the country the non hindu has the same status as the lower caste dalit by default – so exclusion but in most places its a detente where religious and caste endogamy is strictly maintained. housing and employment discrimination is v common. its actually much harder to marry under the special mariage act and violence against interfaith and intercaste couples by their own families is common. in 2023, the muslim is the designated enemy of the state. the christian was fooled by the british and/or money to give up their culture or is literally a foreign agent. if you're looking for a textual answer, the equivalent of the "infidel," there isn’t really one because the streamlining of the canonical religious texts and construction of the hindu is recent. hinduism has aimed to appropriate instead of convert.

in modern india, legally anyone who is not a christian or a muslim is treated as a hindu. you are hindu by default in india to the state, governed by hindu codes for marriage and inheritance. for indigenous tribals it is a matter of coercing their children to feel shame at the (state sponsored but outsourced to private religious groups, love privatisation!!!) residential schools about their animist practices and making them worship the proper gods. for sikhs, jains and buddhists their is marginally more toleration. but they are basically seen as wayward hindu sects. this does change when they're in conflict with the majority in a way that resists "national cohesion" – see sikh pogroms in 1984 and the recent moves against sikhism due to the invocation of khalistan in the farmers protests. when dalits convert to buddhism many right wingers will invoke the spectre of predatory conversions.

since you are supposed to be hindu by default, christians and muslims are then seen as invasive outsiders and conversions are regulated very strictly by many states. it is historically true that christian missionaries brought christianity as part of a broader civilising mission, but imo it says something really depressing about hinduism that its epithets for christians is 'ricebag converts' bc people apparently converted for a bag of rice. islam's foothold in the continent is older, accompanying immigration from the west as well as the sultanate and the mughals. returning these christians and muslims to the fold, or "ghar wapsi" is a major project of the hindutva right. note that india is home to one of the world's largest populations of muslims (~200mil).

lower caste dalits have long converted to christianity and islam but caste violence follows them there anyway. caste may have textual origins in religion and focus on ritual purity but it is a socioeconomic form of subjugation. this means that while still subject to caste violence, dalit christians and muslims will be denied redressal through state protections like legislations against anti caste violence or reservations because those are restricted to hindu dalits.