#majoritarianism

[indizombie]

When you're only 3% of the population, you rely on the other 97% to do the right thing," she says. It comes down to human compassion [but] there's still a blame the victim mentality - as though what happens to us is what we deserve. Maybe future generations will change that narrative.

Raylene Nixon, mother of Steven Nixon-McKellar

[aghila]

Despite the challenges posed by GST rate inflation in pump, grinder, and OEM industries, as well as the significant setbacks faced by the textile industry due to central government policies over the past decade, Coimbatore has remained resilient.

This resilience can be attributed to the robust infrastructure developed by successive Dravidian governments, the presence of reputable educational institutions, the establishment of Tidel parks, favorable climatic conditions, and the enduring spirit of its people.

To suggest that Coimbatore's development hinges solely on the intervention of a BJP is not only inaccurate but also disrespectful to the contributions of Dravidian leaders spanning generations.

From Diwan Bahadur Rathnasabapathy to present-day governance, their efforts have played a pivotal role in shaping the city's progress.

In the aftermath of the bomb blasts in Coimbatore, many individuals who once sought livelihoods in the city departed, leaving behind a community determined to restore normalcy.

However, among those who returned, a faction emerged— individuals who, instead of contributing positively, sought to assert dominance over local businesses. These individuals, often identified by their support for particular religious affiliations, engaged in practices that suppressed native enterprises.

Absolutely, democracy empowers us to make informed choices based on the principles of justice, equality, and secularism. It's crucial to assess candidates based on their commitment to these values rather than succumbing to divisive narratives or majoritarian dominance. Each vote is an opportunity to uphold the ideals of a pluralistic society and ensure that the voice of every citizen is heard and respected.

[onethousandrbirds]

there are only 2 kinds of queer headcanons that i hate:

"we didn't have (enough?) skinny white men to ship together so we created them" (think the onceler and himself or phil coulson and hawkeye)

"the only way for us to recuperate this (skinny white) character we hate/don't relate to (usually for the way his [always his] cis/het-ness colors how we understand his bad behavior) is to queer them and change literally nothing else!"

[apveng]

How did the people in these mobs — made up mostly of white men in the American accounts I’ve read — rev themselves up to peak barbarity? At what point did their humanity go dormant and bloodlust consume their beings?

[redrattlers]

why is it the damn tumblr polls that made me realize just how much i hate our electoral system because it’s always so heartbreaking to see like my second or third fav options get no votes when i KNOW people love those options too 😔😔😔😔

[savcir-faire]

In times of absolute horror and destruction I wish for you all the transformational creativity of an utterly beautiful madness, and I offer you the blessing of a holy human freak.

she was such a queen for this

[wilwheaton]

There is one issue now, and only one: keeping alive the vestiges of American democracy, with its commitment to meaningful checks and balances and to individual rights as well as majoritarian rule. American democracy has never been perfect, but it’s all we’ve got. When we have it, we can disagree peacefully and hope to remedy policy mistakes through discussion, legal action, and the ballot box. If we lose it, we’re done. So, whether you’re a fan of Bernie Sanders and the Squad or an admirer of Liz Cheney, we all need to stand together against Trump. To have any hope of achieving the kind of disciplined unity that will be essential to countering Trump, we also need a rhetoric and politics of inclusion. The left needs to ease up on cancel culture, rigid purity tests, and petty identity politics. We can’t give up on one another, and we can’t waste time wallowing in self-pity, or make plans to emigrate to Canada. This is our country. Around the world, millions of brave people have pushed back against far more abusive and frightening leaders than Donald Trump. If they can stand up against truly horrific regimes in their own countries, Americans can handle Trump.

I Helped Run “War Games” on Trump’s Plans. They Were Not Reassuring.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Where does this curious Hindutva-Zionist solidarity spring from? One origin is from the earliest Hindu nationalists who modelled their Hindu state on Zionism. Hindutva’s founder, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, supported majoritarian nationalism and the rooting out of all disintegrating forces. These included Muslims who supported electoral quotas for their community and left-wing internationalists. As a result, he even condoned the Nazis’ antisemitic legislation in two speeches in 1938 because, as he saw it: “a nation is formed by a majority living therein”. Yet Savarkar was not antisemitic himself. He often spoke favourably of the tiny Jewish-Indian minority because he considered it too insignificant to threaten Hindu cohesion. In fact, Savarkar praised Zionism as the perfection of ethno-nationalist thinking. The way Zionism seamlessly blended ethnic attachment to a motherland and religious attachment to a holy land was precisely what Savarkar wanted for the Hindus. This double attachment was far more powerful to his mind than the European model of “blood and soil” nationalism without sacred space. Today, Hindu nationalists perpetuate this legacy and still look to Zionism as a uniquely attractive political ideology. To Hindu nationalists, some Zionists were engaged in a project to reclaim their holy land from a Muslim population whose religious roots in the region were not as ancient as their own.

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In 2018, Israel passed a law that rebranded the country as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” and delegitimised its non-Jewish citizens. Similarly, India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019 eased paths to citizenship for immigrants from several religious groups, but not Muslims. Coupled with rhetoric associating millions of Indian Muslims with illegal immigration, human rights groups argue that this law could be used to strip many Muslims of their Indian citizenship. Hindu nationalists have also stoked a culture war to consolidate “Hindu civilisation” and sweep away symbols of Islam. This is very much in keeping with the wish of Israel’s far right to rebuild Solomon’s Temple on the site of the holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where al-Aqsa mosque compound currently sits. In 1969, a Zionist extremist burned the south wing of al-Aqsa. And in 1980, the fundamentalist group Jewish Underground plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine at the centre of the compound. A similar project of demolishing mosques and building temples in their place was suggested by Savarkar and Golwalkar. Hindu nationalist organisations focused their attention on Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodha, since this was the mythical birthplace of the Hindu god, Ram.

[hussyknee]

Do not even try coming into my replies with this garbage. I am not going to condemn Hamas. I will grieve for their victims and the lives lost and suffering, and I will never commend or condone anybody's violence. But to see it as anything but the reaction to an unrelenting torment inflicted on their own people tenfold by Israel is utterly reprehensible. There is no monster more evil than the hands that created it.

Condemning Hamas is to deflect from holding Israel accountable and contributing to the alienation and oppression of the Palestinian people. And I will never, ever support "wiping out" Hamas, full of the sons and daughters of murdered, raped and pillaged families, the way I hope the IDF and Israeli government gets eviscerated. I have no sympathy for colonists. The Nuremberg Principle applies.

It's amazing how the word "nuance" has been turned into a cheap coin for colonialism.

Nuance: "It makes me uncomfortable to take a moral stand against oppression and colonization so I'm going to pretend it's too fucking complicated to listen to the people who have been systemically expelled, displaced and ethnically cleansed for the last seventy years."

Someone said in a tag that "white ignorance is called objectivity and white knowledge expertise" and that is exactly what's going on here.

[vegan-commie]

Western food imperialism has not spread veganism to non-Western countries or to Indigenous domestic populations; rather, it has imposed animal agriculture, animal foods, and factory farming on cultures whose diets have traditionally been plant-based, replacing relational hunting and sacred eating practices with the deaded life of animal agriculture. As Deckha writes, arguments about veganism as food imperialism discount the enormous amounts of plant and land resources that are required to sustain current Western levels of flesh consumption and ignore the richness of non-Western flesh-free food traditions and ideologies of nonviolence toward all living beings. Indeed, these accusations align with the centuries-old majoritarian habit in Western cultures of deriding vegetarianism and, as it has come more into popular consciousness, veganism. What is different (and remarkable) today is that flesh-free diets are impugned for purported imperialist aspirations when they were denounced in the time of British empire-building as markers of anti-imperial and countercultural allegiance. Further… arguments that invoke multiculturalist discourse to disparage vegetarianism/veganism and otherwise sanction cruel animal practices have themselves “gone imperial” in their disregard for animal otherness, vulnerability, and marginalization. Along similar lines, Richard Twine insists that we must “set debates around vegan universalism within the larger context of the present-day universalization of Western food practices which include, of course, increasing global trajectories of meat and dairy consumption in, for example, Asia and Latin America,” and hence “contemporary accusations of food colonialism and imposition must… be directed [not at vegan activists but] at the unsustainable Westernization of high rates of meat and dairy consumption in new parts of the world.”

-Colonialism and animality: anti-colonial perspectives in critical animal studies (2020)

[indizombie]

Whatever the historical social contradictions in Manipur between the Kukis and Meiteis, the horror unfolding at present has been exacerbated by the present governments at the state and the Centre. They have legitimised majoritarianism in Manipur and unleashed ethnic fear. Every institution, from police to NHRC, has become part of the problem, not the solution. It is astonishing that a government that prides itself on "national security" actively creates a national security threat in its own country.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ‘Our morality after Manipur, Indian Express

[mapsontheweb]

Territories in Africa where black people (negroid) is majoritarian.

by worldwide_map

[knuckle]

I'm also frequently reminded that so much of the country has never had to live in a majority conservative area or outside of a moderately sized city in that they think republicans are an entirely peripheral breed of human when we think about how to build coalitions and/or how conspiratorial thinking infects our communities because they are an other that is annoying at family gatherings not the school board forcing your favorite German teacher to leave your school because she's an open democrat. They also just have no conception for how entirely radicalized Christianity has been toward fash adjacent republicanism because their churches have gay pride flags & they don't have to interact with people who listen to conservative radio pundits in earnest

in my abolition and carceral politics class we read this incredibly interesting piece by a prison psychiatrist in the 1950s calling for abolition on the basis that prison makes "bad" people worse, and people kept talking about how this was radical back then, and I have to say it's still radical now. The idea that despite your wish for vengeance or suffering on some disposable members of society, it doesn't work anyway. It's not perfect politics, and isn't grounded in the value on human life and redemption and restorative justice in the same way that a lot of modern abolitionist work rightfully is, but I still think that 95% of people (in the U.S.) view prisons as necessary so idk maybe it's a republican's or capitalist's abolitionism but it's still abolitionism. I was honestly just shocked by how direct the author was

[timetravellingkitty]

Hindutvawadis don't like monkey man reva :(

So sad to starve oneself from a good movie

😔

That's because Dev Patel is actually a westernized Indian who knows nothing about the motherland he's literally British he has NO ❌️ right to speak about majoritarianism and minority rights when he's from the UK did I mention he's westernized

[metamatar]

Excerpted with permission from BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam, a report by the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley.

The publication of the draft NRC in Assam in 2018 revealed the exclusion of more than four million persons from the survey rolls. Reportedly, some people were excluded due to spelling errors in their names or inconsistent names in documents. After the draft list was made public, excluded individuals were permitted to submit further documentation proving their citizenship. While a majority were not of Hindu descent, reportedly between one and 1.5 million were Hindus. The exclusion of a large number of Hindus from the 2018 NRC list is presumed to be the foremost reason that changes were made to the citizenship law, and that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 was enacted, whereby, in effect, only Muslims would be excluded from citizenship.

The (ostensibly “final”) update to the Assam NRC was undertaken on August 31, 2019. Approximately 1.9 million persons (numbering 1,906,657) were excluded from the 2019 published list, and may potentially lose their citizenship, and face expulsion, exile, and statelessness.

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The Foreigners Tribunal of Assam remains the state mechanism for appeal for persons excluded from the NRC. Individuals may petition the Foreigners Tribunals with requisite documentation validating their citizenship. An appellant is deemed to be either “foreigner” or “citizen” as per the ruling of the tribunal. The process is hard, complex, and arbitrarily and routinely discriminatory. An analysis of 787 Guwahati High Court orders and judgments published by The Wire found that cases before the tribunals took about 3.3 years on average

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September 2019, a Muslim family with land documents dating back to 1927 found that all members of their family were not on the NRC due to: “an objection filed [apparently anonymously] by someone against their inclusion in the final draft.” It is unclear who may file bad-faith objections or how they may be held accountable. Reportedly, approximately 250,000 such objections have been made, mostly anonymously.

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Once declared a “foreigner,” an individual may be held in detention. Immigration detention centers are often locally referred to as “concentration camps.” Detention serves to criminalize and confine those deemed “illegal foreigners.” Without established limits or protocols for ethical resolution of the matter, detentions can be prolonged or indefinite unless deportation ensues. Currently, India operates thirteen detention centers, and others are being constructed to assumedly hold “undocumented” individuals.

[queer-red-panda]

I agree with this user wholeheartedly.

Honestly, the BJP government's whole strategy is 1. divide and rule, and 2. basically establish hindu dominance within a society which is supposed to be the most diverse in the world as well as one of the most complex.

India is going back to the Dark Ages, it seems, with the latest laws which have been released. Financial freedom and ownership rights over land and property are basic familial rights, and revoking this right from women is the first of many warning signs of our backward thinking.

Islamophobia is a rampant issue around the world, and it is honestly disgusting to see that an entire religion's personal laws are being overridden by a majority community which is imposing their own laws upon them.

What BJP is doing is it is not bringing the country together as a responsible political party should, rather, it is tearing the country apart. Their targeted demographic is the rich, the powerful, and the male.

And with these new laws, with the glorification of Hinduism, the glorification of patriarchy and frankly backward ways of thinking, it's going to show that BJP is not serving the country as a whole, rather, it is working only to fulfill its own personal ideologies which are not beneficial to the nation in any way whatsoever.

So I do hope the country's eyes open wider, and that the people choose their government wisely in the upcoming elections, because if they don't, the situation will only get worse.

The bjp government introduced the ucc bill in Uttarakhand which has made it mandatory for live in couples to register with the government and a copy of the registration will be sent to respective families. It also added the father as a first class legal heir for inheritance of property, encroaching upon the the right of the mother, wife, daughter (the actual victims of patriarchy, who most likely did not have any social right to gain access to financial independence or inheritance from other family members) to accommodate the father, who more than likely than not already has financial freedom and ownership rights over land property. Moving on, they removed the Muslim personal law, which guaranteed the rights of the daughter in a fixed inheritance percentage. Not to mention the whole act is modelled after hindu personal laws and demanding other religions to bend according to it is inherently regressive no matter how progressive the law on paper looks to be. So should I just bang my head against the wall right now and be done with it or watch as the bjp government slowly sets fire to all our lives?