In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
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In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
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Re: In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
#2Excellent New Yorker piece about this (I submitted it to HN when it came out but it didn't get any traction):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil...
Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the 'other' this time aren't Jews, they're Muslims.
Re: In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
#3This guy is a joke. He spent decades supporting the Chavist revolution in Venezuela.
He has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.
Re: In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
#4This guy is a joke. He spent decades supporting the Chavist revolution in Venezuela. He has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.
After a long and respected career at MIT he’s no joke.
Re: In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
#5> NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical.
This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.
Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.
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#6Site seems dead. India is home to many minorities, infact the second or third largest Muslim population so it could have not been that without being tolerant to them. Meanwhile Sikhs and hindus are fleeing pakistan.
Radesh Singh Tony, the serving president of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Pakistan Minorities’ Alliance, has been reportedly forced to leave his city in Pakistan
https://twitter.com/aoepoeRadesh/status/1220238426894585856
https://twitter.com/aoepoeRadesh/status/1219919588634300416
He is the first candidate from Pakistan's Sikh community to contest an election for a general seat and this is the pressure they are putting on him
Re: In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
#7> NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical. This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amo…
Can you give examples of being muzzled?
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#8Fascism rose in popularity 100 years ago as a political option. Perhaps it is undergoing a renaissance. I have no idea why anyone thinks its a good idea unless you are the person in charge but it seems to attract support.
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#9This guy is a joke. He spent decades supporting the Chavist revolution in Venezuela. He has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.
After a long and respected career at MIT he’s no joke.
He is not a joke in his field. He is highly intelligent. He has carte blanche to publish commentary on any topic he chooses, and some pundits will pick it up and say see, this well respected and smart guys says this, listen to him!
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
After a long and respected career at MIT he’s no joke.
He is not a joke in his field. He is highly intelligent. He has carte blanche to publish commentary on any topic he chooses, and some pundits will pick it up and say see, this well respected and smart guys says this, listen to him!
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