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What a stupid and outrageous thing to say ! If someone is from Kashmir, their views should matter even more, isn’t it?

Or are Kashmiri Pandits totally invisible to the world? What type of blindness is this?
And we are talking about Nehruvian secular atheistic, or “I am spiritual, but not religious Hindu” here.

This type of systemic discrimination of Kashmiri Pandits is very similar to antisemitism faced by secular Jews, just because they are Jews.
When one sees the Queen Barkha on TV reporting that the Kashmiri Pandits were responsible for their own victimhood, we see how much we normalized “the Jews had it coming” type of discourse in India.

Time to hang this type of bias to dry in the sun.

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