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My issues with the underclass are never to do with castes, most people are a part of it and act like it. The documentary was made by another Indian and I was more charitable than I should have been, I do regret that. I am not a bot, I am a very real person.
My posting history goes back to 2019 lol, I just changed names since I did not want anyone who knew me irl to find anything new I posted. The prejudices displayed in the documentary are things that are from India, or rather, subcontinent-specific. The movie exists only to dunk on Hindus and is likely the work of a sikh or a muslim. I never watched the entirity of it, but my opinion flipped when I realised it had religious undertones that were explicit. Going by snippets and kulaks review was not correct. Its a hate piece, large parts of India are bad but they are not that bad.
The dead Internet theory is probably true, but I have been less online than ever before, so I am not as bothered by it now. India at one point, it was the place for the Indo Aryans; the religious and spiritual developments you saw here are unmatched and likely will be till the end of time. I am not a self-hating Indian, I do wear a janeu, I went to a uni here, and my family pays taxes on time.
My previous posting history is under the name practical_romantic, I mostly posted in the wellness threads since I already saw way too much culture war on Twitter. I posted under two different ones before that.
I did not wish to post much culture war either, but the Kashmir thing forced me to post something; the caste census, however, is much more important. It spells the end in many ways, and I want to leave something that can help others know that evil things happen regularly, and people just blind themselves to it. India has already had land redistribution happen post-independence; whites had or have farmlands in South Africa, we have nothing. There won't be an all-out war, but if the state can wreck someone's life for basic dissent, bar them from jobs, a degree, and social mobility despite being smart, then I don't have much to say.
It's hard to put this into words. The civilisation I care about is dying, and I fear I can do little to change any of that.
That's good enough for me. My post was less about you specifically being a bot, and more, just... I can't take anything I read on the internet as being written by a human for granted anymore. Even in weird out of the way places like this. I just find myself side eyeing any account that I don't personally recognize from at least 10 years ago.
I sympathize with this so hard, you have no idea. But you may have more cause to, it does sound your like civilization is going in the shredder maybe a generation before mine is.
It is already in the shredder. I cannot talk to anyone about it beyond people I know online, even though they may not fully realise how bad things are. The practices kept alive under foreign rules will be killed off. This is not shcizoposting on my part either. Blackpilling is a sign of weakness, and there are some ways but Indo Aryans are going to be completely dead before other branches of Aryans all over. People will accept tyranny, despite making up all of the armed forces(upper castes in this case). Why do people put themselves in these positions?
Refusing to take stock of a bad situation is madness. Elders here simply don't care or can't be made to care. Euros can at least plan for remigration, Denmark has a lower percentage of its 0-5 population as non-Danes than its adult population. Not the case here. Nothing is enough, the calls for wanting women as reparations, state encouragement of that by giving people 10k USD for marrying outside of your caste. In ways I get why boomers refuse to accept reality, coming to terms with this fucked up my day. My main reasons behind doing well in life beyond the personal were to help out the less fortunate whom I share some ancestry with and help them see the light. So that women like my mother have capable people to marry who uphold the last strands of our values.
All that is gone now. This sounds conspiratorial, but there is not much stopping the South African government from being more ruthless. I don't give the one here many reasons not to act that way. If you have 90 plus percent affirmative action, then the policeforce is 90 plus percent people who dont like you. Police tyrnany fucks with people in the army too, ask Paan Singh Tomar. They may not actively want you dead, but they clearly do not like you in the best case. There is probably no saving, if there is, I would happily do whatever I can. My sabbatical will continue, and I will try to leave soon. I am just gutted. I am alone, and I can't unsee what is going to happen.
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