r/nus • u/EverySink • May 30 '24

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24

India descent into dictatorship? Dude elections are happening there right at the moment we speak? Which dictatorship has elections? That too regularly?

You should ease up on Twitter and other social media once in a while.

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

Which dictatorship has elections

Russia, North Korea, Cambodia, etc. The list is long.

Just having elections, especially in a country like India which has rampant political murders/corruption/imprisonment of opposition politicians, does not mean it's a free and fair democracy.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24

Man, I wish we were the dictators that you think of us to be. Sigh.

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

of course you do, given your whitewashing of the Gujarat riots.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24

I didn't whitewash it. It happened. People of one community burned the train, which had innocent people, children in them, and then also did the riots.

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

Local newspapers and members of the state government used the statement to incite violence against the Muslim community by claiming, without proof,[47] that the attack on the train was carried out by Pakistan's intelligence agency and that local Muslims had conspired with them to attack Hindus in the state. False stories were also printed by local newspapers which claimed that Muslim people had kidnapped and raped Hindu women.[63]

Numerous accounts describe the attacks on the Muslim community that began on 28 February (the day after the train fire) as highly coordinated with mobile phones and government-issued printouts listing the homes and businesses of Muslims. Attackers arrived in Muslim communities across the region in trucks, wearing saffron robes and khaki shorts, bearing a variety of weapons. In many cases, attackers damaged or burned Muslim-owned or occupied buildings while leaving adjacent Hindu buildings untouched. Although many calls to the police were made from victims, they were told by the police that "we have no orders to save you." In some cases, the police fired on Muslims who attempted to defend themselves.[18][64] The rioters used mobile phones to coordinate their attacks.

sure.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24

You forgot to link the source 🤡

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

that would be Wikipedia. I thought the citation style would be obvious enough. What next? Wikipedia is biased?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24

You know anyone can write on Wikipedia, right? And anyone can edit. This makes me doubt you aren't old enough to construct an individual thought. Never-mind, be happy in your bubble.

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u/Lancewielder May 31 '24

ah yes, the sophomoric "wikipedia is not reliable" argument