People need to talk more about hindu fascists. They are probably the 2nd or 3rd largest group of fascists on earth
For some reason I’m not convinced that WWII defeated fascism.
Its like polio. When you stop vaccinating it comes back.
Yeah, sadly the only vaccine for fascism is delivered at 3000 fps.
I’m a believer in the value of lead therapy for fascists.
Thank god fascism was defeated in 1945, now there’s no more fascism anywhere, we live in a totally post fascism society because we definitely defeated fascism. I’m so glad I can say that without worrying that saying that is in sharp contradiction to the political reality of practically every industrialized nation on the planet, where fascist parties have already, or are in the process of seizing control, but aren’t, because fascism was defeated 85 years ago, so long ago that there is definitely no more fascism.
There is no facism in Ba Sing Se!
Fail to see how a Hindu temple in Tennessee is a negative. Does the poster not like Vindaloo curry or something?
As someone who doesn’t like anything curry, I just want to say I have no problem whatsoever with Hinduism, they’re cool by me
This is so on point with something I saw recently.
I’ve been rewatching Stargate SG-1, and last night, I watched “the other side” (S04E02).
For anyone who hasn’t watched it recently and either hasn’t memorized every episode, or can’t be bothered to look it up, the people they encountered were fighting for survival, with dreams of pushing back their enemy and eventually eradicating them. Through the course of the episode, everything seems fairly normal, it’s just a war, right? Then you realize that everyone they deal with is white, everyone they’re trying to help, in stasis or otherwise, is white, and they’ve asked O’Neil to not bring back Teal’c when he says he’s returning to the SGC…
Turns out, though they didn’t say it, it was a race war. As soon as they discovered that, they actively sabotaged their efforts to defend themselves against those who “breed without any regard to genetic purity”, then promptly bail, letting them get destroyed.
Because the point was made without explicitly stating what was going on, it was a very clever episode. They were all ready to be on good terms with these technologically advanced people, then discovered that they’re racists and promptly set in motion the events that would end their lives.
If that’s not social commentary, I couldn’t tell you what is. Especially with shit like the OP floating around.
Watched this episode after reading your comment… loved the episode and identified the next series to watch.
Shoutout to SG-1! I grew up on it and it has a special place in my heart. They had their stinkers, but boy did they have range, from black comedy gold to action adventure to existential awe to solid political commentary, and with a fantastic ensemble of characters.
What a weird fucking thing to post.
Racists are fucking weird, man.
I made a tiktok account to shit talk cons and my feed was quickly filled with white supremacy stuff, shitting on Indians just for existing in Canada. super disappointing
edit: also whenever I open the app, it’s that fucking Kiki account with the AI Trump girls
When I was homeless, I ate many free meals at my local Sikh temple (gurdwara). I didn’t even know my city had a gurdwara until I heard it recommended as a place to go food. I remember when I first turned up, I felt super awkward (a common feeling if you’re often having to rely on the charity of others), but I was made to feel super welcome and it’s something I reflect fondly on in what was otherwise an extremely dark period of my life
When I was a starving graduate students, I ate many meals provided by the local Hare Krishna temple. Lunch from them was nominally $1 but if you didn’t have any money they would feed you anyway. It made me feel very bad for all the times I referred to them as “hairy fishnuts”.
I’m glad you were able to get through those dark times. I hope you’re doing well.
Be well.
"In addition to the cut of your gib, I likes the name of your town…
Murfreesboro."
-Strongbad
I don’t think they realise which side India was on
FWIW some Indians did fight for the Japanese in WWII. They were treated, um, unpleasantly when they were caught by allied Indian troops.
Both ww1 and ww2. India sent over a million soldiers to Europe during ww1. Can you imagine those guys traveling back time, joining the German army (like they would be accepted!) Only for them and their unit to get wiped by some dark-skinned guy from Calcutta who doesn’t speak any English?
I know right? It’s kind of impressive how many layers of stupidity and ignorance are piled on top of each other here.
I don’t think I could come up with something this dumb if I were deliberately trolling.
What is he even thinking? That WW2 was some sort of holy crusade for Apple Pie and Jesus?
Yes, don’t you remember? The Germans were Muslim immigrants.
I mean it’s really easy to misspell Nazi Germany as Muslims when the basic literacy rate is only 15 points above 50.
The right has a very funny relationship with Indians and their diaspora. On one hand, India’s far right (Hindutva) has been a model for western white supremacists. On the other hand, Indians are still brown-skinned “others” so they have to hate them too.
Certain high caste (higher social standing) individuals made a living off of aiding and abetting exploitative colonial leaders and their descendants today aspire to do the same. There are also some Indians who are Christians (often ones who’s families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times) who feel that brings them closer to more the more regressive white people that run the US now.
Its a fascinating relationship but doesn’t how Indians in general feel towards rising white supremacy in the US. For every bobby jindal there are 5 ro khannas.
often ones who’s families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times
Kerala (southern-most state in India) is about 20% Christian and the community dates to long before the arrival of the British.
Colonial Portugese Catholic missionaries attempted an inquisition on Kerala Christians via the Synod of Diamper in 1599 which failed, culminating in the Coonan (Crooked) Cross Oath in 1653, the peoples rejection of Western Catholic imposition upon their beliefs and traditions.
To their credit, Anglican (British) missionaries did not attempt to force conversion. In fact they were pivotal to translating the Bible into the local language (Malayalam).
Kerala Christians were largely converted by Syrian missionaries in the 4th century based on archeological records.
Its interesting because many in North India and other Hindus in India associated Indian Christianity with aquiescence to colonial tyranny but there is a rich history that predates that predates colonists.
As a Louisiana citizen, fuck Bobby Jindal.
An Indian friend whose family was Christian said that it used to really cook other kids brains when they would ask him what Caste he was and he’d say he didn’t have one
If they lived in India, I’m pretty sure they still had one even if they didn’t acknowledge it.
They would have had one prior to conversion. Social stratification is not an easy thing to shake off and was codified during the colonial era as European powers strongly believed in hierarchies, especially racial / colorist ones. The British in particular gave institutional power to those that were higher caste and criminalized those that were lower caste in a way that was not common prior to that era.
I am familiar with several South Indian Christian communities and there is no persistence of caste there though social stratification does it exist as it does universally.
Interesting. Most of them still inherit their caste even after conversion, maybe it gets diluted with passing generations
There are a few Indian stand-ups that do “Indians are racist” bits.
I don’t understand. India was allied with Germany and Italy now? Is that what’s happening?
Don’t bother trying to understand.
I think the first poster is being sarcastic, saying that the allies shouldn’t have won WW2 because Hindu temples are bad, and if the third reich had taken over the world, they wouldn’t be allowed. (Or he may mean that the US should have sided with Germany.)
I agree it’s unclear and took me second read to get it.
Basically I think the op on the image is saying that hindu temples in tennese is bad, and “we won ww2” means they shouldn’t be allowed to (for some reason).
The person replying is saying they’re right, we did win ww2, which let’s us have religious freedom, like building non Christian temples in the US.
The “sorry your side lost” is the replier calling the op a nazi. Nit siding with the op and implying the Hindus were on the losing side
So…yes. That’s what’s happening.
A tragedy is the view count. 1.2M views!?
The sooner a meteor hits Twitter from orbit, the better. It’s literally designed to make money pissing people off with stuff like this.
Having just been in Murfreesboro a couple days ago, lemme tell ya, that temple adds a lot of much-needed class…
In Sugarland, Texas, there is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Hanuman. It features a 90’ statue of the Son of the Wind out front.
I have been there, it’s epic! This was before the statue, when I was a Mormon missionary in that area.
I dragged my companion along and one of the priestly types gave us a behind the scenes tour of temple operations, probably to keep us from freaking out the regular patrons. They were probably, rightly, worried about getting re-colonized.
I don’t ever usually go to Murfreesboro but I didn’t know this was there. Now I’m questioning if there is some decent restaurants that I have been missing out on.
I have no clue what either of these people are saying. Is JuliansRum being sarcastic? Who is “your side” that Zaid is talking about? Like there’s so many ways to read these tweets I literally cannot tell what the actual intent is.
From context clues it would seem that JuliansRum is a MAGA cultist being sarcastic and bigoted, or at least Zaid thinks so.
Given that the MAGA cult is fascist in nature, the side ideologically aligned with it indeed lost what Robert Evans insists on calling Dub Dub Dos.
