Thread by @HardFastAndFree

So what is RSS' worldview and why is it so toxic and dangerous, not just for Muslims, Christians and Sikhs but ultimately Hindus as well?

Time to look deep into it because that's what I intend to do in this thread.

A brief introduction to RSS:

This is an organization formed in 1925 by KB Hedgewar. It was/is led by Marathi Brahmins and has branches everywhere in India.

The first head was KB Hedgewar.
Second: MS Golwalkar.
Third: Madhukar Dattatreya Deoras.
Fourth: Mohan Bhagwat.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is 5-6 million strong. It's the parent organization of the political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and militant organizations such as Bajrang Dal, Sri Ram Sena, etc., together they're called the Sangh Parivar.

The Sangh Parivar has cultural/spiritual organizations like Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Chinmaya Mission, etc. RSS has also co-opted "Spiritual Gurus" like Sri Sri, Jaggi Vasudev, etc., and organizations like Akshaya Patra in order to further their cause in India and elsewhere.

So what's their ultimate cause?

Hindu Rashtra (i.e., India as a Hindu nation).

A nation where people who follow Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Sikhism are second-class citizens at best or relegated to detention centers aka concentration camps at worst (see NPR/NRC/CAA).

Their aim is to rid India of its minority groups and establish a Hindu nation.

RSS was inspired by European nationalism back in the 1920s. It still holds the same worldview to this day.

MS Golwalkar said the Nazis' purge of Jews was something for Hindus to learn and profit by.

This has been covered in-depth by @FriedrichPieter in these 2 articles:
#1 thepolisproject.com/cultural-malwa…
#2 caravanmagazine.in/politics/ameri…

@HartoshSinghBal has covered MS Golwalkar in his article here:
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/golw…

I can't recommend them enough. Please read them to know more.

Now I move on to how RSS ideology works.

This image perfectly sums up how it works real time.

In the RSS hierarchy: The Shudra kisses the Vaisya's ass. The Vaisya kisses the Kshatriya's ass. The Kshatriya kisses the Bania's ass. The Bania kisses the Brahmin's/Jain monk's ass.

In the RSS/BJP hierarchy, Jains take precedence over Brahmins. Jains are the biggest financiers and supporters of RSS/BJP.

But the Jain and the Brahmin in turn kiss somebody else's ass. Now who could that be?

The Israeli far right! That or some far righter in the US/Europe.

See this image for more.

Note that Sharma, Shukla, Tiwari, Dwivedi, Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Mukherjee, Banerjee, Rao, Iyengar, Iyer, etc., are Brahmin surnames.

Hindutvadis wouldn't treat Muslims and Christians in India with an iota of respect. They don't even see them as humans.

But they go to great lengths to lick the asses of far righters in the US, Europe and Israel. Normal folks see them as a nuisance.

Here's what an Israeli had to say about MS Golwalkar, much to the chagrin of Hindutvadis and the amusement of everybody else.

https://twitter.com/haimhz/status/1255623962744295424

A right wing hate rag called on India's PM Narendra Modi to cancel the 2024 general elections citing, of all people, Hungary's Viktor Orbán!

https://twitter.com/rupasubramanya/status/1249542740867780610

When you look up to the likes of Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsonaro and Geert Wilders, nobody will take you seriously.

You make yourself a joke and reduce your stature. Au contraire, you end up courting unwanted hostilities from many people.

All these years, many Indians worked in the Middle East in order to feed their families. This helped many of them escape poverty and live better lives.

Arabs were/are generous and helped Indians out when they had a lot of money and resources at their disposal. But how did Hindutvadis return the favor? They screamed "Hindus are in danger" spread anti-Muslim hate and bigotry on the Internet and IRL. And why did they do that?

Because some Muslims committed crimes against them back in the medieval era!

And they're under the false impression that Muslims are planning to take over their nation and turn it into another Pakistan.

Muslims have much lower birthrates in India today.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit…

But facts don't matter to Hindutvadis, because for them, hate is the main driving force.

They spread hate and bigotry against Muslims and Islam despite the fact that Arabs who are Muslims helped them out of poverty. And it isn't just Arabs, Malays/Indonesians also helped out.

There's no need to mention Whites in the West who are generally Christian also shared their countries with Hindutvadis who in turn mock the former's culture and boast about their own (!)

They also peddle hate against Christians and accuse them of appropriating their culture.

Here's irony #1: Hindutvadis got out of poverty due to help from Muslims in the Arab world, Southeast Asia and Central Asia and Christians in the West.

After taking it all, they cry "Hindus in danger" and want to eliminate Muslims/Christians from India.
sabrangindia.in/article/muslim…

If this doesn't stink of thanklessness and hate, I don't know what does.

Meanwhile, they support rabid Buddhist monks like Ashin Wirathu who called for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.

Irony #2: Myanmar ethnically cleansed Indians out in the 1960s.

When the military took over Myanmar in 1962, dictator Ne Win stripped Indians of all their lands and forced them to leave Myanmar. Most of them were Tamils.
scroll.in/article/850199…

In other words, Hindutvadis support the same people who drove out (mostly Hindu) Indians before.

Irony #3: But wait, they also supported the Sri Lankan govt which massacred 50,000+ Tamil civilians (most of whom were Hindus) back in 2009. They said Sri Lanka's govt stopped a Christian/Vatican conspiracy (!) in their land.

I'm not even making this up.
haindavakeralam.com/ltte-a-failed-…

In other words, so long as you're not Muslim (or Christian), you're free to even ethnically cleanse Hindus out of your lands, and Hindutvadis will look the other way. If you target Muslims later, the same crowd will loudly support you because you're persecuting Muslims.

What else explains their admiration for China?

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1243154954061144071

China isn't in favorable terms with India so they're not going full retard yet. But they can't control their admiration for China for its persecution of Uighur Muslims. They want India to do the same.

It's like they're just waiting to sing "Qi lai! Buyuan zuo nuli de renmen...." (from 義勇軍進行曲, Yìyǒngjūn Jìnxíngqǔ, March of the Volunteers).


If China becomes friendly with India tomorrow, Hindutvadis will go full retard in no time. That's a given.

Now what explains this pathological need to dehumanize Muslims/Christians and carry water for genocidal far right crackpots?

A deep-seated inferiority complex.

Again, this isn't uniform throughout India. There are states that do well for themselves without the Hindutva virus.

States like Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the south of India have done well for themselves without Hindutva. Tamil Nadu had Periyar and the Dravidian movement. Kerala had the Communists.

Periyar's self-respect movement is the best possible antidote to RSS and its Hindutva virus.

Read about it here:
feminisminindia.com/2019/04/05/wom…

Read more about Periyar here:
#1 forwardpress.in/2016/07/women-…
#2 nationalheraldindia.com/india/periyar-…

The self-respect movement was a movement of women, backward castes and scheduled castes who were denied agency for long in the Madras Presidency.

This became one of the key elements of the Dravidian movement which later became political. It helped the state of Tamil Nadu in particular to a great extent.

It's time for not just Tamil Nadu but the entirety of India to rediscover/newly discover the self-respect movement.

This is especially true for Hindutvadis who suffer from deep-seated inferiority complexes that compel them to kiss the asses of far right nutjobs in the US, Europe and Israel and genocidal Buddhist monks who don't even see Hindutvadis as humans but as pests to be eradicated.

Unless and until that happens, this abomination will continue for all of India.

Periyar is significant because he taught Tamils self-respect. He made them realize their value as humans. He pulled them out of the red tapes of "tradition" and "culture" of the previous century.

This is why Hindutvadis, Brahminists and casteists hate Periyar so much. He made backward/scheduled castes realize their worth as human beings. He single-handedly pulled them out of the dark ages.

This is a big no for Hindutvadis who want the RSS ass-kissing hierarchy intact.

To that end, they're thrilled when some compliant backward castes (BCs) claim that their ancestors fought the British (which is true). Hindutvadis then lick the asses of rightists in Britain (see Katie Hopkins).

I mean, how does this work? How can BCs lick Hindutvadis' asses?

And how can Hindutvadis lick the asses of the same people OBCs claim their ancestors kicked out?

Oh well, when you get into the Hindutva spider web, there's no coming out. Nobody can make any sense of this spaghetti that is the deep-seated inferiority complex of Hindutvadis.

This is why Periyar's self-respect movement will give Hindutvadis their humanity back (or probably introduce it to them, in case they never had it in the first place).

So how will they benefit from Periyarism?

They wouldn't throw themselves on the floor in front of others.

They wouldn't go and lick the asses of far righters in the US, Europe and Israel and crave for their approval at all times.

They wouldn't carry water for genocidal maniacs like Ashin Wirathu.

But as a trade-off, they need to respect the agency of OBCs, SCs and STs as well.

And they wouldn't be compared to Nazi Germany or 1994 Rwanda anymore. They can become achievers.

This is the end of my thread.

Thank you all for reading. Have a nice day.