I don’t want to endlessly argue over this point. If you can’t see the difference between what's happened in India and tens of thousands of Palestinian children being murdered and 60% of Gaza's buildings being destroyed then there's no point in talking to you further. These terms matter and we can’t just throw them around, that’s why the genocide ruling at the ICJ was so important.
There can be one than one on going genocide? We shouldn’t just not apply the term when it fits the scenario. I’m not one to use the term lightly but the situation to Indians Muslim population is actually rlly fucked and insane if you look into it. It’s one of those things like the Chinese genocide of its ethnic minorities which doesn’t get talk about as much.
The problem is that it doesn’t. There's absolutely widespread discrimination and occasional communal violence, as with Black people in the American South in the 20th century, but no wide-scale massacres of entire communities that we see in every other genocide. To put it in the same category as Gaza, Rwanda, or the Holocaust waters down the term.
Unlike maga Bernie’s opposition doesn’t come from the fact they are Indian. It comes from the principle idea where business owners will exploit that of workers coming over to America desperate for a job and they are willing to be payed less cause the salaries from their home countries aren’t as much. Meaning greedy corporations will exploit the fact of these high intellectual ppl are willing to work for less money.
A lot of leftists are anti-Indian and anti-Hindu, being a leftist doesn’t make you immune to the effects of capitalism nor does it make you a good person. If no one is free until we’re all free, that right should be extended to Indians, Hindus, Persians, East Asians, and others who don’t fit the criteria of a perfect victim. The model minority myth is trash and has contributed to racism
It’s not genocide. Any honest genocide scholar would probably tell you the same. In terms of casualties, the Gujarat riots were comparable to October 7th or the recent Alawite murders in Syria. Were those also genocides? You might think this is making excuses for disgusting Hindu nationalists, but using these terms properly is way more important than any of you people think.
This is true and I don’t understand anyone who would be anti Indian or anti Hindu. But what I am against is religious nationalism. Not saying Hinduism is inherently nationalist. But the weaponize of it by the BJP and other groups is horrifying. And Mamdani doesn’t seem to hate Hindus rather than modi and the Hindu nationalists who he believes wronged his family if you watch the interview him and brad lander did.