Originally posted by: hotchoco
India is verging on an autocracy and whatever message you want to give can only be done extremely subtly. Nobody wants to have fake charges thrust on them by various agencies (ED, NCB, etc) and be thrown in jail. People have been known to get harassed and arrested for writing opposing opinions on their own private Whatsapp.
Biden couldn't even give a press conference from India because Modi refuses to answer any questions or be accountable to anyone so he can't have other leaders showing anything different. Instead, Biden has to do it from Vietnam.
Modi and his team are well known to force celebs to tweet on their behalf. SRK tried to mark himself and his family safe from harassment. You do what you are pressured to do because nobody holds any real power against state machinery.
The difference between India and World is that majority supports misuse of State machinary because that is being done against people they hate
Jack Dorsey was threatened by Modi government
"We will raid your homes and shut your offices"
https://youtu.be/hVj2jJXTNCk?si=0WBW8lDKwfE1prMf
You see no democratic country in the world would survive this kind of control over free speech but India does because people have been brain washed to an extent that it won't affect them till it happens to them
I never said anything against BJP nor was I against it because everyone can have their political views, I truly wasn't against them till Manipur incident happened and I put a story against it on my WhatsApp
I was shocked to receive this message justifying violence and rape of women in Manipur, I understood how people have been managed and controlled in India.
"It is happening for our country" is what they are told and they happily support everything including rape and murder
We were a country which came on roads against power in 2012 when a woman was raped in Delhi and now this
Mind you, this message is written by a journalist from Madhya Pradesh whose name I can't tell due to privacy concerns

I am in a state where I don't really think all this can change therefore the best thing one can do is work, earn, protect yourself and your family. People who have a heart to support incidents like Manipur, have lost their sensibilities, the ability to empathize is dead
Edited by NoraSM - 2 years ago