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How did India seemingly become so right-wing? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Browsing through comments on youtube videos about India right now is crazy. Full of Islamophobic, racist rhetoric almost indistinguishable from white nationalist ones (example CW: Islamophobia).

I get that BJP is responsible for appealing to hindu nationalist sentiment and making it worse, but what are the material reasons that caused a former br*tish colony to become like this?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The communists in India tend to come from higher castes, just as the communists in the imperial core tend to be white. (Yes, I know that’s not always the case.) Casteism and racism are both creations of the British, and they’re both extremely effective at stopping communists from going all the way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

just as the communists in the imperial core tend to be white.

Isnt this because most people in the imperial core are white? Like im pretty sure non-whites would be disproportionately overrepresented