Hindu vigilantes have long tried to stop the cow trade, often carried out by Muslims, but have become more extreme and flamboyant thanks to American social media platforms that reward them with large online followings.

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    Representatives from YouTube and Meta also told her they worried that removing hateful influencers would physically endanger the firms’ employees in India.

    And yet these ultra-powerful mega-wealthy organizations did not raise the issue with the US gov or the Indian govt to ensure safety of their employees for adhering to corporate standards nor did they shut shop in India till the Modi govt guaranteed the safety of their staff. these SMs know modi needs them to spread his hate-filled agenda.

    X/ twitter is partly owned by Islamic UAE, yet they let Hindu supremacists say the vilest Islamophobic comments, post vile acts of violence against Muslims. So much for Islamic ummah.

    To this day, trying to get an Islamophobic a/c down on any of the SMs mentiond is an act of patience and oftentimes futility.

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      YouTube knows Modi would love to make hay out of them censoring Hindus. They’re like the evangelicals in that way. Always oppressed.

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      And yet these ultra-powerful mega-wealthy organizations did not raise the issue with the US gov or the Indian govt to ensure safety of their employees

      Unless you’re an insider, how could you possibly know this?

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    There isn’t a better example of clown world than this.

    We gotta get rid of this whole religion thing, it’s making people do insane things.

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      This is fascism. It uses religion as a convenient part of their “culturally pure” state ideology. It’s a more basic sociological ingroup/outgroup reaction than anything to do with religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva

      The definition and the use of Hindutva and its relationship with Hinduism has been a part of several court cases in India. In 1966, the Chief Justice Gajendragadkar wrote for the Supreme Court of India in Yagnapurushdasji (AIR 1966 SC 1127), that “Hinduism is impossible to define”.[30][b] The court adopted Radhakrishnan’s submission that Hinduism is complex and “the theist and atheist, the sceptic and agnostic, may all be Hindus if they accept the Hindu system of culture and life”.

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        I just tried to get a definition for fascism but apparently that’s quite difficult to define also. It’s easy enough to get a feel for what the word ‘fascism’ is trying to describe though.

        So next question is, are there some religions that are more sympathetic to, or more likely to bring about fascism?

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    Gee, isn’t it great that Google is moving all their podcasts, music, tv, and movies to the flea market that is YouTube?

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    Let me guess, they’re going to tell me about the footage without showing me the footage.

    Modern journalists suck.

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          The article is titled “He live streamed his attacks on Indian-Muslims…”, you asked if there was footage, there is footage in the article.

          You didn’t say anything about specific footage of him being shot so we’re just moving the goalposts now so you don’t have say you didn’t actually look before you posted.

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            What are you talking about? I’m not looking for a cut with news anchors talking over it.

            I’m looking for the original footage. There is no moving of the goalposts, lol.

            “He live streamed his attacks.” Yes, I am looking for the recorded live stream.

            Not sure why this needs to be spelled out for you, but I have a feeling you have difficulty admitting when you’re wrong and always feel like you have the right answer.

            Sorry bud, this time you didn’t. Goodbye. Gonna block you now cause you don’t seem like you have anything important to say.

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    I’m a vegan so I support abolishing cow farming, and Islam is also one of the most harmful religions.

    Doing it because a different religion tells you to though, rather than because cows feel pain and we are abusing them, feels like it could become dangerous. We should do stuff because it’s right, not because someone else tells you to.

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        I’m a vegan so I support abolishing cow farming, and Islam is also one of the most harmful religions.

        The second clause doesn’t have any connection at all to the context of the article. The person who happen to be a Muslim is a victim in this article, not a perpetrator. It’s like saying, “hey this is a follower of a harmful religion. So he somehow deserve it.” And, it’s somehow ironic when the harmful act conducted by the perpetrator is by a person following a teaching of a certain religion, Hinduism in this case, but that religion is not even mentioned as harmful.

        My take: There’s some kind of bias or phobia that can be interpreted from that statement.

        By contrast, if the same statement is made based on a news article on ISIS terrorists, it would make sense and won’t get downvoted.

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          Yeah, it’s not like only muslims eat cows. Replace them with any other group and the vigilante would still after them for trading cows.