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Older vs younger tbh I think a lot of younger Americans have a grievance with Indian immigrants because they view them as competition for jobs, whereas Americans 40+ have a grievance with Muslims and socialists due to the war on terror and the Cold War
The diversity of thought on the right can best be summed up in whether or not they are more mad that zohran is a Muslim socialist or an ethnically Indian immigrant
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Anonymous 1w

Leftists view Indians with scorn as white-adjacent not deserving of oppressed minority status since the community fits very well into capitalistic systems with their experience in hierarchies. Right wing hates them because they’re “brown and filthy” since theyre just racist lol.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

The millennia old Hindu Muslim beef(lol) doesn’t make things better for them since India will automatically support other “historically oppressed” indigenous religions like Shahist Zoroastrians and Israel (dumb considering Israel and their archrival Pakistan were formed in the exact same way)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

India supported Palestine until they needed Israeli weapons and Modi and Bibi bonded over shared hatred of Muslims, no?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Basically, they were a pretty big supporter of Palestine and saw Israel as an artificial creation similar to how the British and Mujahirs carved Pakistan out from India separating ethnic groups and resulting in millions of deaths. After the USSR collapsed and the Hindu nationalists took power there was a shift towards Israel that partly comes from Islamophobia and the need for new weapons suppliers

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Ahhh ok

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

And yeah the way some leftists view Indians as not an oppressed minority truly baffles me tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

I’ve seen lots of reasons why leftists don’t like them, Indian culture is seen as colonized, hierarchical, and EXTREMELY patriarchal with one of the most horrific forms of oppressive segregation ever seen in human history (the caste system). The frogs in a bucket and white worshipping mindset also seen in Nigerians stems from colonization and makes them excellent in western capitalist systems. The decolonization movement in India has failed and become chauvinistic and Hindu supremacist instead

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

I don’t agree with them tho a lot of the more extreme leftists have a “if you’re not with me you’re my enemy mindset” and they apply that to all the Indians just trying to hustle after brutal poverty and colonization

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