Thread by @gauravsabnis

Part 2 is also very well curated and edited. It's about the last 9 years. And everything laid out in 1 hour hits extra hard.

And Swapan's dishonesty gets even more dazzling. Like re Jayant Sinha he's like yes that was wrong "but don't generalize" 🙄.

archive.org/details/modi-q…

Remember that "Don't generalize" is this age old sleazy trick when you're backed into a corner with no arguments against what is being said. So even tho no one is actually "generalizing", you create that straw man and say "don't generalize". And wriggle out.

"Why do I speak with you? So there is a record somewhere that all of us here did not agree with this. It's not a call for help. There is no help coming."

- Arundhati Roy

Nails two important points. Especially that there's no help coming. That the BBC even made this is a bonus.

Eventually when the avalanche of hate starts targeting lots of non hardcore soft sanghi brahmins is when people will realize the inevitable direction fascism has to take. When even Shekhar Gupta gets arrested & even Ranga is considered anti Hindu & Swapan too one day.

Half of Delhi knows the variety of skeletons in @swapan55's closets and when his turn comes, it will be BJP that will weaponize it against him. Like they weaponized the wrongly granted OCI against former cheerleader Aatish Taseer when the time came.

"He believes in the politics of full-spectrum dominance. From his POV, throttling the media, or exercising a high degree of control over the media, is essential to his project."

- @svaradarajan

Well put. It's a firm ideological position for many conservatives. Attack media.

The documentary lays out a couple of cases that could have been India's "Rodney King Moment", where you can see brutality against an innocent person on video.

No cops have even been identified after 3 years. And vigilante killers out on bail after being garlanded by Ministers.

That's the crux of where the country is headed.

A lot of countries in recent years have dabbled in extreme right wing, ethnofascism. But only sanghis are publicly signalling that there will be no consequences, zero consequences, against vigilantes, even from the govt!

In US, the extent of the politicians' support for bad guys on their side is Kyle Rittenhouse, who had a reasonable case of self defense and got legal help.

Sanghis tho are releasing & feting confirmed unrepentant murders.

That kind of a society is a whole other dystopia!

This all started when after Akhlaq's lynching, the forensic investigation focused more on the meat in his kitchen than his murder.

The clear signal being sent by the police and the courts and the government was that if it was beef, the lynching was ok.

An anti Muslim purge.

Not a single judge felt it necessary to take suo moto cognizance of the ridiculousness of testing the meat. Like even if he was illegally eating beef, the guy is dead. Why is that forensic investigation being done from any rationale other than ideological? What about the murder?

From 2015, many of us have been crying hoarse about that investigation. It wasn't even a custodial death that they have to justify arrest by testing the meat. It was vigilante thugs lynching a guy. That was the crime. What police procedure in solving it needed meat tests?

One day in the not too distant future, some Champak Sharma or Agastya Iyer will get lynched for eating beef and the cops will focus on the meat and then suddenly my people will wake up to miscarriage of justice and suchlike.

Sabka number aayega. That's how fascists roll.

The #BBCDocumentary shows how India started off on this path by giving clean chits to Modi after some pretty shoddy and compromised investigation of 2002. And ends in an India where unrepentant convicted murderers are released and feted by Modi's BJP.

Trajectory is clear.

When you start off down a road where your defense of the guy is "court said there isn't enough evidence against him" and you put him in charge of the country, then you have convicted criminals roaming around free or on parole or on bail. While innocent people are in jail.

This is a bizarrely unique experiment even in the annals of ethnofascism. China or Iran types are cracking down on the innocent, yes. But there's no wholesale de facto immunity for any random street thug. They maintain tight control on general law and order.

Sanghis tho 🤷🏽🤷🏽

The current model in India is, wear some saffron, praise Modi, and you have a literal get out of jail free card. Even if evidence is overwhelming enough for conviction, there's always endless parole that there's no systemic check against.

If you think putting in place a system of birth based and politics based immunity is not going to result in sure chaos, you've got another thing coming. Every such case emboldens thousands to ride bigotry and even violence to fame and wealth. The end result of this, just imagine.

Yeah, but we don't talk about how uniquely dangerous this is in modern times. Even for modern fascists. Who generally tend to keep power within police & military control.

Not share it with mobs and vigilantes. That are under no one's direct control.

https://twitter.com/yodalisque/status/1618171370604748800?t=LdoC6l1jI_hTEVyjMV03nw&s=19

If they are trashing the BBC itself as propaganda, then what plausible deniability anyway. That bridge is now burned. They are going to have to start owning the mobs. Or stamp them out.

Mobs are not loyal to anyone other than a constant sense of angry resentment.