Now BJP run states are letting people ban Muslims from their businesses and entire areas. Although it's not "legal", it's still enforced as Hindutva Lynching Squads will just lynch people to death for violating the segregation zones and it'll happen with the states support.

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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

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