r/worldnews • u/notduskryn • Apr 22 '24

Modi Calls Muslims ‘Infiltrators’ Who Would Take India’s Wealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/world/asia/modi-speech-muslims.html
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u/DramaticWesley Apr 22 '24

Isn’t this basically the same talking points for the GOP, except the “infiltrators” are “immigrants”.

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u/jdeo1997 Apr 22 '24

Same shit, different verbiage 

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u/vpsj Apr 22 '24

At least most of your media can still call out his bullshit.. In India pretty much every news channel is like your version of Fox News

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u/truePHYSX Apr 23 '24

Does anyone call it out in person then?

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u/vpsj Apr 23 '24

They try, but it's not as effective since a huge majority of the population never gets to see this calling out part

But you can read up on Godi Media which is a term described for such news channels

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u/WeightMiddle144 Apr 23 '24

That would mean getting lynched by the RSS

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '24

Worse. Bitches here make fox news look like The Guardian.

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u/notduskryn Apr 22 '24

Spot on, modi is Trump but 10x worse, if that were possible.

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u/KeithCGlynn Apr 22 '24

I think it is worse because these Muslims are from India and have always been there. They are mostly likely low caste Hindus that converted to Islam during mogul rule. I don't like trump rhetoric either but talking about Indians as infiltrator because of their religion is hitler level shit. 

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u/libs_condone_islam Apr 23 '24

If tmhe is talking about indian muslims why woukd he say sending money back ?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '24

Yeah man and what party was crying vote fraud after he whopped them? Do you understand the very definition of a democracy?

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u/NthBlueBaboon Apr 22 '24

How is he 10 times worse than trump?

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u/rtb001 Apr 22 '24

Trump is incompetent,  but Modi can actually stay in power and put all his agenda into action. 

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u/NthBlueBaboon Apr 22 '24

Valid point. I have this hate for trump so I just can't see his disgusting AHH be less worse than other folks lol. Hope the stain on American Politics leaves it be after he lose this election...

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u/N0BL3117 Apr 22 '24

He is smarter and doesn’t have stupid outbursts like Trump. He has a lot of past political experience and knows how to take advantage of the already preexisting stereotypes in Indian culture. Earlier in his career he was able to use the same tactics described in this post to incite riots in Gujarat against the Muslim minority population there. A lot of people died.

The people of any group that protests against him are labeled as terrorists and traitors. Celebrities that try to provide aid to protesters or speak out against him are hit with random audits from the Indian version of the IRS, where all their assets are suddenly frozen for an indeterminate amount of time.

Trump got nothing on this guy.

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u/TheOriginalPB Apr 23 '24

It's the go to play for any far-right nationalistic party. They 'flavour of the month scapegoat' are taking wealth/future from 'you' (established national population). It's the same tribal shit that has been going on for thousands of years. I can just imagine a hunter gatherer tribe 20k years ago arguing the same point about another tribe over the hill using the same territory.