mōdgethanc wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I saw a North Indian guy deny casteism and pretend that "Bengal and Kerala leftists" are just as bad as Modi fanboys. Both sides!
Replying to a year-old post but Jesus Christ. I can see that argument maybe if he said the
Naxalites are as bad as the BJP. But Kerala? Really? Wack.
I don't think even the Naxalites are comparable. Naxalites have committed terrorist attacks, but Modi is literally enabling street lynchings. It is much more like Muslim fundamentalist terrorist organizations, just in the opposite direction.
Kerala has a very different history and culture from much of the rest of India. For example, it has not experienced nearly as many foreign invasions as Delhi has. Almost half the population is non-Hindu. Almost everyone eats beef regardless of religion. Lots of high-caste Hindus are crazy for beef. There have been plenty of immigrants from faraway countries in Kerala for thousands of years. Kerala has a reputation for tolerance that doesn't seem common elsewhere in South Asia.
Hindu nationalists, including the BJP, really hate all of this. They have been trying everything they can think of to force Kerala to bend to its will but to no avail. Their propaganda is all over the Indian Internet, so it's hard to find an Indian who doesn't believe at least some of their lies. It's funny sometimes:
They tried to organize a nationwide beef ban. (They are not the first administration to try).
The government of Kerala immediately started hosting free barbecues.
They were like "okay, fine, have your beef barbecues, but I'm gonna have a
pork barbecue! Next to a mosque! HAH!"
Nobody gave a shit.
They were like "oh uhhh now we're stuck with all these plates of pork and, um, I actually...don't eat pork either......um THIS NEVER HAPPENED NOTHING TO SEE HERE!"
Malayalees were like "lmao yeah it did. I have receipts. With pics."
Then it started getting ugly. They made the chief minister (i.e. state governor) cave into one of their demands and attempted to sabotage our biggest annual traditional holiday (I'm sure they've done much worse than this as well but can't remember anything specific offhand).
Most recently, during the last round of elections, a BJP official insisted on not using the correct name for my parents' hometown, I guess because it's a pretty big and important town now, but they probably didn't think it sounded Hindu enough. The BJP at the time had exactly one seat in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. They now have none.