loathsome dongeater

he/him

a cool (brr) dude

  • 45 Posts
  • 450 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: May 14th, 2020

help-circle




  • Not sure I follow your interpretation of the wikipedia article. The history it provides is very short and just ends at “dunk the n-word” being protested.

    I personally could go either way with this. Maybe the name is now rendered innocuous by repeated usage in non-racist contexts but I also don’t think it is worthwhile to rehabilitate traditions that have extremely racist roots. If someone wants to do a better analysis they would have to look at how dunk tanks are put into practice IRL. Maybe there is still a vestige of oppression that remains because of which unprivileged persons are dunked. Or maybe not.

    It is also only one part of the reason. They probably want to change the site culture as well but that is for the admins and the users to sort out.











  • It’s possible but if that is the case, the Indian state’s and news’ narrative of it does not consider that angle at all. The closest we have come to this is the discussion around the fact that Canada has a large Sikh community and would not let India wantonly assassinate them. Besides this, the movement is just painted as TERRORIST without any further explanation ignoring the common trend of Indian administration of othering the communities that are not upper caste North Indian Hindus.






  • They see third party voters as more closely aligned with democrats, while they see republicans as lost causes. In short, they think they have a much higher chance to get third party voters to vote for their blue ghoul, while they don’t see how they can sway a deep red republican. Obviously the Democratic party would never compromise with third party voters and their fanatics don’t care about that. So they just berate and scold third party voters.


  • It was a whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star

    Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.

    The military underestimated the firepower possessed by the Sikh militants, whose armaments included Chinese-made rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition with armour-piercing capabilities. Hoping to avoid damage to the holy site, Indian forces unsuccessfully assaulted the temple using light weaponry and quickly resorted to using heavy weapons, including tanks, helicopters and artillery to dislodge the well-fortified Sikh militants.

    The assassination was at the back of this.