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An update on India: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil...

(I have no independent knowledge, but it seems things are pretty bad?)



How Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Became a Bestseller in India [1]

Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists [2]

[1] https://www.mic.com/articles/120411/how-hitler-s-mein-kampf-...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/hitlers-hindus-indias-nazi-l...


Germany and especially Japan, during ww2, were ardent supporters of indian independence for obvious reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Legion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Hind

So Hitler doesn't have as negative a connotation in india and most of the non-western world just like Churchill doesn't have as negative a connotation in israel or the west as he does in india or the rest of the non-western world.

History is much more complex than we are told it is. It isn't black and white. That's why traveling is so important. You realize that everyone is living in their own little bubble.


Please tell me exactly how India’s stance on prioritizing Christians, Buddhists, Hindus etc is worse than the US stance of prioritizing just Christians

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/07/most-refuge...

Edit: instead of downvoting, engage in conversation.


Both are bad? I'd think most people who disagree with Modi's government's policies also disagree with the policies of the Trump administration. Both countries are pluralistic democracies without state religions.


Treating unequally suffering refugees as equal is discriminatory.


> unequally suffering refugees

Lolwut? Is there a standardized suffering scale?


There is nothing like an "unequally suffering refugee."

The citizenship law is against the vision, articles, ideals and ethos of Indian constitution. Its nothing but thinly veiled Islamophobia.




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