I promised to post things I'm reading or seeing regularly and so here's something I came upon tonight that's quite chilling. In light of the recent attacks in Mumbai, where I spent maybe 150 days a year for several years in the 90s, I had been thinking about intolerance and bullying. The Hindus in India are like Christianity in America. That is to say it drives the conversation, it sets the official schedule.
Hinduism sets the us versus them tone on the subcontinent. The Muslims and in some degree the Christians in India are tolerated. The Holy days are celebrated but India is by and large a Hindu country in the very same way that Pakistan is a Muslim one. Not at all in the way Turkey exists.
In that light it's quite easy to see how the internecine hatred and divisiveness has festered. It's always just below the surface. If you don't believe it watch Sara Sinder's CNN feed on the scene. This local based reporter is being bullied for reporting just the facts. The crowd is hostile unruly and the police are non responsive. It's a powder keg that avoid detonation because of Global economic growth. Kill that growth and watch it fester.
Meanwhile here in America, lest we get to high and mighty we get this. David Duke and his band of merry idiots are glorifying in the possibility for growth. Watch this video.
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