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So, I don't know how to phrase this in a way that's not offensive to mrvanillasky, though not for the reasons you may anticipate with that preamble.
Some time ago, there was that low brow documentary about India, "India: Worst Country on Earth". I believe self_made_human pushed back on it significantly, dismissing it as cherry picked examples of India, and not representative at all. When I told my wife about it, and how disgusting I'd heard it was, she wanted to see it. She made it about 60 seconds in, until the scene where a young boy is sucking a dogs dick, and noped out. I didn't bother continuing to watch it either. But there is one thing about it's discourse that stuck out to me.
There was an assertion, either in the documentary itself, or in the commentary surround it, that the minority of higher caste Indians in India regard the rest of the degenerate masses as subhuman. I've always wondered how true this is. It didn't seem like the people making that assertion had any native knowledge of that claim.
So along comes mrvanillasky, an Indian native, seeming to support just that assertion. Only at this point, I'm so fucking paranoid, I have to wonder if he's even real. It's just too perfect, a native Indian supporting all the foreign prejudices of India.
Then again, truth is truth.
Who even knows anymore. Psyops are everywhere.
That's the offensive part BTW, I can't help but wondering if mrvanillasky is a bot or a psyop. I mean, not in a serious way, or a way I expect there to be consequences. More just... dead internet theory seems ever more predictive than it used to.
We don't view them as subhuman. People do tend to view them as lesser in social hierarchy (it's humans nature to perceive the world in that lens, but in India there's widespread cultural awareness, even if not always practiced, that such hierarchical thinking should be challenged and that we should be non judgmental, rooted in Hindu philosophical traditions) but saying that people view the less privileged as subhuman is absurd by any standard. Generally (I can't speak for everyone, just the common view) people don't view them as inherently lesser either, in any sense of the word (whether that's less smart, moral, lazier, etc.). People recognize that those lower in social hierarchy are the way they are because of their circumstances, rather than being born that way. If you ever visit India, you will see it is common to be polite and kind to those from a lesser socio-economic background, like domestic maids and servants. For example, it is extremely common to refer to rickshaw drivers, street vendors, laborers etc. as "bhaiya" (meaning brother), something which wouldn't happen if we viewed them as subhuman. It's taught to us as children, at both school and at home, to show respect and dignity to everyone, regardless of their job/background. I can go on about this, give you many examples of people being charitable, if you are still not convinced.
I don't think mrvanillasky is a bot or a psyop. I don't like assuming the working behind other people's mind, but I would describe his statements as a result of being consumed by a parasitic egregore, fueled by both recent tensions surrounding Kashmir and general resentment of reservations (affirmative action) in India.
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