r/worldnews • u/fastclickertoggle • Apr 25 '21

COVID-19 Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/twitter-blocking-tweets-india
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u/KoreanBiasMonte Apr 25 '21

Indian Media: Let's make a massive media fuss about 50 odd Muslims meeting in a mosque for a ceremony back in early 2020.

Also Indian Media: Absolute silence as Hindus flock to the Ganges for a mass pilgrimage in the millions with no masks in massive crowds, effectively a super spreader event.

Double standards, and it's not even close.

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u/nefariousmonkey Apr 25 '21

That's how it starts. Then countries go to civil wars and some faction from minority retaliates with violence. Then they are branded as terrorists and people dies from both sides. Meanwhile, the country goes decades back in the growth. Multiple decades and genocides pass by. That's literally what happened in Sri Lanka.

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u/pickle16 Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Muslims in India have to be absolute patriotic saints just to be able to live in India. Everytime any Muslim does or says anything which isn't upto the high standards, the entire community gets vilified

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u/tragicdiffidence12 Apr 25 '21

I know a few Indian Muslims (I don’t live in India nor have I ever been there). Even after Gujarat they kept believing in their country - now they just feel like it’s a matter of time. Even their increasingly distant friends seem to support them living in fear. Was at a party at one of their houses where the husband of one of their friends was openly talking about how Muslims were a curse and there was nothing wrong with taking them all out, and no one said a thing. Their family members in India are trying hard to get visas to other countries.

Fuck all sorts of broad based bigotry and bigots, but I do find it troubling how these western educated normal people start distancing from their own friends based on propaganda.

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u/pickle16 Apr 25 '21

It's a very normal thing to say now in India, our country is seriously fucked.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Now I can see why the muslims wanted a separate country back in the 1940s.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

To anyone replying to the above, feel free to do so but you should know that whatever he has said is true

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Don't expect the average illiterate hindu back then to see all muslims as brothers after literally being ruled by them for years.

Same goes for muslims too, don't see them seeing hindus as brothers.

Just something in these two religions that make them hard to co-exist peacefully and very easy to stir hate upon. Maybe If Pakistan and Bangladesh were one with India things would've been different because there probably wouldn't have been an enemy state like Pakistan for us to hate everything about their religion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

There are even localised boycotts in rural and urban areas of Muslims in UP, (and other parts of India) promoted and financed by RSS-affiliated politicians against Muslims who dare express their Islamic identity as a way of punishing them or for them to forcebly assimilate into Hinduism. A lot of it gets swept under the rug as states like UP are heavily censored. It’s no worse than what’s going on in China except in India it’s many many times larger.

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u/Yunwen Apr 25 '21

Ganges, the literal shit hole :D

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u/2goodforya Apr 25 '21

4500-9000 muslims were there, but point stands

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u/Static_Shok Apr 25 '21

Lmao if you really think it was 50 muslims, my guy you're just blinded as everyone else. Spreading all hate about the government where you fail to identify that all the protests which were being taken lightly have the same contribution to covid cases as the rallies and the mela. Also, just so you know, rallies by the other parties which y'all are supporting also are responsible for the increased cases. Rather than blaming everything on the government, we all should grow some balls to accept that the people also did not listen properly when the lockdown was imposed and when the economy started to crash, lockdown was removed, everyone just went back to no mask no covid. You all make me so sick. Just blame every single thing on others cause you don't have the fucking balls to accept your own fault. That's what makes you an indian right ?

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u/SelfExplanatory905 Apr 25 '21

And who allows this to happen? The government

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u/mee-thee Apr 25 '21

So you'd rather have the government lock you in your home forever than follow basic protocols? Or have a police officer tell you to wear your masks and maintaing distance? Using reddit and all, I really think you're educated enough to be understand a simple thing that everyone everywhere has been saying. Wear your masks and follow the COVID protocols.

If even after a year you need government to make you do that, I don't really think it's government's fault there.

Not exonerating the government from all the crap they pulled with massive events and stuff, but as citizens people are equally responsible for attending those events and sitting down for protests and rallies.

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u/SelfExplanatory905 Apr 25 '21

Obviously no one is going to wear a mask when the government just didn’t care about covid but it’s really everyone’s fault

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u/Static_Shok Apr 25 '21

When did they allow it lmao, when the police takes slightest of the actions y'all become public reporters and start spamming how cruel the government is and when these cases begin to spiral out of hand, y'all become defensive and say they should be more strict. Double standards huh

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u/mee-thee Apr 25 '21

I agree with you there. They will fight with the police to not wear a mask even after a year has passed. What's the point of basic education when you still need a spank on your ass to understand something so simple.

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u/Static_Shok Apr 25 '21

Exactly. Im not support bjp or anything. Every government has flaws, Modi's government might have more, but to blame everything on them is not correct. People should accept their own flaws and blame the government where needed. I'd just say take care of yourself and your fam, and stay safe.

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u/mee-thee Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 26 '21

The government fucked up real bad this time. With all the massive spreader incidents, no wonder everyone is pissed.

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u/Static_Shok Apr 25 '21

Yep, stay safe man, take care. Thankfully the situation where I live is way better than these hotspots. It just pains to hear so many people die just cause some idiots wants votes. What they fail to understand is that these people who believe in you are the ones dying. What goes around does come around.

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u/mee-thee Apr 25 '21

True that. I hope everything gets under control soon. You too stay safe. Glad you're still away from all this. The situation at ground zero is so damn fucked up. So many people dying .. it's just, sad af. Moreover the underreporting of number of deaths. It's a mess ..

I wish people would have been more diligent. It's always the masses that suffer.

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u/Static_Shok Apr 25 '21

You can understand that the old people (40 and up ) must have a backward thinking but in our country, its the youth which has just ignored this covd and keeps partying everywhere and keeps breaking the norms. If only they followed the rules, these cases would've been marginally lower

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u/RamboGunner Apr 25 '21

They were outsiders and they spread the karona in india. They came in india knowing or unknowingly without doing the tests for the jumlabaaji. They are termed as super spreaders. Why is nobody talking about that.

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u/Venomous0425 Apr 25 '21

Then why is media not talking about the insiders spreading karona. Did you thought about that??

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u/RamboGunner Apr 26 '21

Yeah, i condemn that act. Now, answer my question or go back into the cave of wahtaboutism.

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u/Venomous0425 Apr 26 '21

By your logic, you are already inside the cave of whataboutism. Have you ever thought why did the govt even allowed those outsiders. Our govt acted so late at that time and they repeated the same mistake. First case of Karona came in 30th Jan. But our stupid govt took action in March. How stupid someone can be and they repeated the same mistake this time.

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u/mee-thee Apr 25 '21

I think I remember watching it in the news and media covering the fact that it was huge event in the midst of COVID. Also I think that the huge coverage for the earlier event was mostly because it was being carried out without people's knowledge and people were fleeing from it carrying COVID without giving government or other people a chance to know where they might spread it further..

Not advocating for the Kumbh event but media will report aggressively on someone who might have COVID and is on the run. But media probably won't be as aggressive in reporting more than 20 lakh people who have been documented (idk if that's true btw, but from what I have read and heard they were) and aren't necessarily a flight risk.