I hold some hope that the younger generation can change things, but honestly, most younger hindu americans i know mostly don't care and are all about the "STEM grind" bullshit.
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Yeah I've noticed that with younger coworkers too who are fresh out of college. The STEM grind very easily feeds into fascism without proper political education, too.
The STEM grind very easily feeds into fascism without proper political education, too.
And feeds into dumbass silicon valley and elon musk worship and complete hatred of anything humanities related (although these dorks still love sci-fi and other stuff that actually requires some knowledge of writing/creativity)
Yes, which in turn leads them to fascism. It's unfortunate.
Especially in the past few months this has been coming up more and more in my circles. Indian comrades have been doing a lot of poli-ed about it. General consensus is it's the formation of a force to witness in US politics. They assassinated the Sikh guy in Canada and got the caste discrimination bill vetoed in California, which is orthogonal but related.
Indian comrades have been doing a lot of poli-ed about it.
Has it been an uphill road? How is the education going?
Not really, there isn't any opposition to it. Mostly people just don't know about it.
Solidarity.
My mom has had Indian store owners be all friendly to her because her name is obviously south asian (one even said "oh that's my mom's name!") but then as soon as they find out she's Muslim they get hostile and threatening to her and want to argue about it. Not all stores, but she's had to shop around to find a store that wasn't run by such overt fascists. And she's like, hey, we're in the US, leave the grudges at the border! Her family has AMPLE reason to hate hindu nationalists what with the massacres and needing to flee during the partition but she'd rather leave all that in the past, but the hindutva fuckers want to harass an old woman.
Anyway they're lucky they've never actually physically attacked her, because I would fedpost the store of anyone who fucking touched her.
but then as soon as they find out she's Muslim they get hostile and threatening to her and want to argue about it.
Like while she's checking out her groceries in line? Wtf do they even argue to her about?
Cool I'm gonna wear mine around the Hindu temple in town some time in the near future to gauge the levels of fash in my small Indian community now thanks for letting us know it pisses off the Hindutva
Lemme know if you get any funny looks or reactions.