• RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Let’s take two gigantic ethnically diverse former british colonies, one where communism rules and one where capitalism rules, wait 70 years and check the results

    • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      It’s similar in that the British did a lot to stoke up religious/ethnic conflict before losing control of the situation and withdrawing. There is a religious dynamic for sure, but would we define the Holocaust as a ‘religious conflict’?

      Pre-colonialism, Indians of different religious identities managed to live together, and to forge identities that cut across religions. The Raj destroyed that, and the damage is still obvious to this day.

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        but would we define the Holocaust as a ‘religious conflict’?

        No but for many more reasons. Nazis didn’t care much about religion they were primarily racists hence the term “antisemitism” and not “anti-judaism” or something. You could be a Christian with a Jewish grandmother and they would deport you because they only care that you “are a semite” which makes you an automatic member of the conspiracy against the “aryan race”

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          Ok but then in the case of Israel you have what happened to the Ethiopian Jews, and, while I’m far from an expert on modern-day India, I doubt very much that persecution is happening along purely theological lines because that’s literally never how it works - it’s always a cypher for something else

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            You’re right, I guess I just wanted to take a jab to Isn’treal white settlers painting themselves as Holocaust survivors because they converted to Judaism shrug-outta-hecks

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    Not surprising given how fucked up the ruling party is. Modhi is a racist religious fundamentalist piece of fascist shit. False consciousness to keep the Indian bourgeois safe by directing violence at minority groups.