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27 Oct, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Did empty virtue-signalling by the Indian team—@imVkohli contribute to its wipeout in match against Pakistan?

India had stopped Pakistan due to the Islamic State's terrorism against India. The Indian team "took the knee" before the math. For what? 1/

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/pa…
The match took place in the backdrop of Islamic terror against Hindus, both in Kashmir and Bangladesh.

Yet Kohli's team was oblivious to terror in their backyard, the cause of not playing Pakistan, but "concerned" for "black lives matter" in the US.

hindustantimes.com/india-news/sch…
At the highest level, the mental state of athletes matters more. While the Pakistan team did not do this fake copycat "taking the knee" the Indian team was busy virtue signalling for an issue that had zero meaning for anyone in the team living in India.

indiatoday.in/sports/t20-wor…
For Pakistan's perspective, every such match is viewed as a battle for Islam against kaffirs.

Meaningless dumb virtue signalling for a "cause" of a 3rd country, with little relevance to the players, can only create cognitive dissonance for the players.

indiatoday.in/india/story/pa…
Imagine, for a moment, that India's players wore armbands to protest Pakistan's terror against India, and to mourn recent Islamist terror attacks against Bangladesh's Hindu minority. It would be a gesture of significance, something to fire up the players.

freep.com/story/news/loc…
Instead @bcci and the team follow empty copycat gestures on the verge of a key match. A hypocritical and empty gesture setting up cognitive dissonance.

Mental state of athletes has the most important effect on performance. Cognitive dissonance isn't it.

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-wh…
Yes, it is not about one thing. But this kind of disconnected signalling is a symptom of India's English-elite class' subservience to the Anglican world.

They 'feel good' about aping their masters. Can you imagine the Chinese doing anything like this?

Protest against British colonialism. Protest against Islamic terror. Even @bdutt thinks the gesture was hypocritical but, for her, it is about bending over for her master religion. Like other Islamists.

What would it take for India to speak for Hindus?

Yes, for South Africa, with its history of racism, this would make sense.

But if India had narrative power (and its elite did not proudly wallow in slavery), the British team would take a knee, always, to acknowledge its legacy of colonialism.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
21 Oct
When the very first paragraph is propaganda, you know what the rest of @BDUTT's story will be like.

"a Muslim man, Akhlaq, had been lynched to death in his home on the charge that he had stored beef."

Fake spin—the charge was cattle theft and slaughter of a calf. (still wrong)
I had debunked the spin @BDUTT and gang had put on that story a long time ago.

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Also in her desperation to find an Islamic angle, why does @BDUTT ignore the Hindus arrested along with #ShahRukhKhan's son? For her Hindus don't matter, but at the very least, it should give pause—this has nothing to with religion.

Media fuels spin. @BDUTT is a champion.
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
21 Oct
"Equality" is a theological idea. So it is strange to see self-declared "atheists" preach it.

There is no equality in nature. Thus "equality" is inherently unnatural. It is an idea from outside nature.

Can a "secular, atheist..." explain equality without invoking dogma?
हिंदू जीवन दर्शन नें "समानता" को आदर्श कब माना? कुछ शास्त्र से स्रोत दीजिए।

Yes. But wherefore does the "atheist" derive equality from. Does it have any "scientific" basis?

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
20 Oct
It starts from "convent" education. Rather than joyous colors of Indian culture, all signs of culture are forcefully removed. Bindis are not allowed, traditional garb is not allowed.

It is a subtle way to indoctrinate. Girls punished for Bindi, Mehndi, choooriyan.
In the Americas, native children were forcibly put into Christian boarding schools and stripped off their language and culture.

In India, we did it to ourselves. Aided by State policy which restricts Hindu schools but leaves non-Hindu schools free.

The #NoBindiNoBusiness trend would be even better if applied to schools. That is where it begins.

But for that we'd need to dismantle the #ReligiousApartheid state cultivated by successive governments.

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20 Oct
Now if only Hindus on Twitter had a way to influence govt policy.

Like, to fix toxic textbooks after 7 years, for instance.
UPA, with a minority govt, in months changed NDA-era textbooks and rewrote them for an anti-Hindu, pro-#ChristoIslam, slant. That's focus.

And BJP govt is still looking for "evidence", 7 years later? Like Pakistan keeps asking for "evidence" to act?

Here is a detailed study by @AtriNeeraj . Facts are well-documented. But there is no will to act.

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17 Oct
My father was a “modernist.” He wanted his family to follow the latest research.

So we switched ghee for Dalda—hydrogenated vegetable oil—because “Science” said so.

Except, 20 years later, Science said the opposite. This is why tradition is a better guide on how to live.
See my thread on why tradition may be a better bet for living life than the latest scientific theory.
I wonder how much of the rise in diabetes in India is linked to this modern science.

People stopped putting ghee on rotis shifting calories from good fat to gluten-filled carbs.
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
16 Oct
Can you tell me what the “fundamentals” of Hinduism are and where they are defined. 😆

To counter fundamentalisms you must have fundamentals, no. Define them for Hinduism and then we can debate them.
Not very rational, are you? Some random tweet is the “fundamentals” of Hinduism? 😆

At least learn to think and construct an argument. Or read @mariawirth1’s article for a start. 😏
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