MusafirDec 11, 2019

The Vice President of India???

With two women MPs asking to speak as the discussion on the Arms Amendment Bill, 2019 was wrapping up on Tuesday evening, the Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu remarked that he thought women did not need firearms and that others would protect them.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/women-dont-need-firearms-venkaiah-naidu/article30271368.ece/

“In my opinion, women don’t need firearms, others will protect you,” he said.

#patriarchy #india #womensafety #womenissues #armsamendmentbill2019

Women don’t need firearms: Venkaiah Naidu

Others will protect them, Rajya Sabha Chairman tells MPs

Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@musafir Compare the US n India, we are moving on the same lines. Am not joking. Pls compare the 2 megalomaniac. Same thing
Show threadSamyukth SridharanDec 12, 2019

@KayKap @musafir A few equations that I had proposed in a conversation in 2016. I got jumped on from all directions for this.
Trump = Modi - Cow
US = India + Media spine
US - MAGA = India - HKMH (politically speaking)
Trump + Hindi = Modi and Modi + English = Trump

#justsaying

Show threadpriyankasingh

@Samyukth @KayKap @musafir

Modi, to me, seems far worse off than Trump.

Trump often indulges in theatrics aimed at provoking, with his antics often bordering on idiocy and driven by an absolute lack of understanding of underlying issues.

Modi, on the other hand, seems to be far more intelligent. His thoughts and words and actions appear to be deeply rooted in hatred, very effectively aimed at manipulating the masses by creating this fear of the ‘other’ that he alone can save them from.

Dec 12, 2019 at 7:49amWeb
Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@priyankasingh Trump also seems and it has been rumored to be medically unwell. Modi is not
@Samyukth @musafir
Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
So we need to ask ourselves what is it that we did to deserve him. Maybe once we have that answer we can come up with a solution against him... Root Cause Analysis... will that work, do you think? @priyankasingh @Samyukth @musafir
Show threadpriyankasinghDec 12, 2019

@KayKap @Samyukth @musafir

One thing I can think of- Displacement of blame for all our problems on an ‘other’ is something we as a society seem to revel in. This fear of the other is something that RSS has since forever - and now BJP and it’s affiliates are playing - played upon. Like the two minutes hate that Orwell writes about in 1984- which can be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blow lamp.

Show threadpriyankasinghDec 12, 2019

@KayKap @Samyukth @musafir how to combat this?

1. Keep learning to engage, understand, and empathise. Encourage those around us to do the same.

2. Keep listening and keep learning to listen.

3. Create information campaigns to counter the misinformation being propagated.

4. Keep the hope and faith and belief alive. 🎈

Show threadpriyankasinghDec 12, 2019
@KayKap @Samyukth @musafir A friend recently suggested this- While engaging with those holding opposite views, we tend to dismiss theirs and place ours higher on moral/humanitarian grounds. Why not engage them in questions instead of statements, to try figure where they are coming from? Maybe direct them to that which can appeal to them in ways that our words can’t. Music, books, movies, documentaries, reports of actual sufferings and impact of actions grounded in thoughts similar to theirs.
Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@priyankasingh Go ahead try.. Have done and am still doing it and should admit have had to take recourse to cold water splashes... The one constant refrain is but we won't go there... that was them, this is us... @Samyukth @musafir
Show threadpriyankasinghDec 12, 2019

@KayKap @Samyukth @musafir

Can only help remind all. Holocaust did not begin with Gas Chambers. It began with hate speech. It began with the powers that be dividing people between us and them. It began when people stopped caring.

Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@priyankasingh Preaching to the converted and aware
@Samyukth @musafir
Show threadSamyukth SridharanDec 12, 2019

@KayKap Converted would imply that at some point we were on a different side, no?

@priyankasingh @musafir

Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@Samyukth Could also imply that at some point we were sitting on the fence @priyankasingh @musafir
Show threadKirtiDec 12, 2019
@priyankasingh I don't know if your ancestors have seen the horrors of partition. Mine have.. so the pain is known and since it is my parents generation that went through it we have heard the stories, seen the impact... still hear them... the laments.. @Samyukth @musafir
Show threadSamyukth SridharanDec 12, 2019

@priyankasingh Reminds me of this quote “You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.” – Joseph Brodsky, exiled Russian poet

#quotes
@KayKap @musafir

Show threadpriyankasinghDec 12, 2019
@Samyukth @KayKap @musafir definitely making a placard on this! 🎈