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Jesus fucking christ is it just open season on women all the time there?!
It's not. Imagine if you heard of the shootings in America, and only the shootings. You'd think that every school or public place was dangerous, but in reality, shootings are rare generally.
India has a lot of rapey bastards, but it also has a population about twice that of Europe. India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed, but it's hardly everywhere all the time.
And yes, it's really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world. They need to get there shit sorted. I also feel somewhat hopeful because from my experience, the younger educated population is "saner" and doesn't absorb the local culture (both good and bad parts) around them due to social media and what I call "Americanization."
- Someone who left the shit hole
every sentence I just read made your point worse
Alright, buddy.
I dunno what that other guy is smoking, I appreciated the level-headed perspective your explanation offered.
They started with "it's not open season on women", but then kept adding comments like:
India has a lot of rapey bastards
India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed
yes, it’s really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world
They need to get there shit sorted
That's why I felt like their original point was made worse by their comments.
Those are all basically the same thing and qualified by the main point: Like elsewhere in the world, there are crappy people in quantities relative to the population size, given disproportionate exposure by the unflattering confirmation bias of media.
And keeping with their initial example, the US also has a lot of school shootings. Doesn't mean schools are dangerous.
Also, there are 4 times the people as the US living more densly.
As a woman, I would probably visit Saudi Arabia before I would visit India. India is literally the only country that a fellow traveler has ever recommended against going to to me.
I would be careful using The Publica as a source (owned by Rumble). This is an extreme right leaning group. Jeremy Hambly is co-founder and a 30 second google shows he is a massive piece of shit.
Thanks for the heads up, I just saw the article pass by and found it interesting. I did check their source which is timesofindia. The source does contain everything mentioned in the article. Not sure how reliable timesofindia is as a newspaper though.
This could be an entirely factual story but still serve a propaganda purpose. Check out the stories they publish about India.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepublica.com+india&t=fpas&ia=web
One true story is true, but when you curate which true stories get published you can still create a false narrative to push an agenda.
There is a common theme about these abominable stories in India, they almost always happen in Uttar Pradesh. It's like the Florida of India.
There's like 250 million people living there which is close to the population of the whole US, so statistically you're bound to get crazy stories.
There's things happening in Uttar Pradesh other than gang rape, public defecation, and murder. We don't hear those other stories in the West, though. In part it's because bad news attracts eyeballs, but there is an agenda to present Indian men as savage monsters.
It sounds like these events happened. I would just be cautious with op. Right wing nut jobs like to paint India as a rape capital and all of its males.
Again, I'm not disputing that the events happened.
My point is that they pick and choose which events to show us. It's a very selective lens meant to push an agenda.
Literally every media outlet curates which stories it publishes, this is not unique to this website.
No shit, some media outlets curate stories based on whatever will make the most money.
And other media outlets curate stories to push an agenda.
I would say a massive red flag would be no author attached to the article. However, multiple outlets have cover the event with some providing more info. It is hard to tell credible source, a lot are bias but not as credible. They like to make shit up.
Just looked it up. Jeremy Hambly... of The Quartering. Didn't realize he co-founded a media outlet. Thanks, now I know to avoid it.
JFC India
Why is it when Uttar Pradesh is mentioned it's always news about woman getting sexually assaulted jfc
Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of the world, but like, way worse.
It’s like eleven Floridas crammed into the space of Michigan.
With bonus religious tension
Because that's the only news being fed to Western audiences.
I can accept that there are good things about Uttar Pradesh which are not reported to the Western world. For example, it looks like a beautiful place.
However, those good things not being reported doesn't really impact the frequency of such horrible atrocities being committed there.
No, but it does create the false perception that all the men there are rapists.
That's fair.
Some of them are also being eaten by wolves recently. The children, mostly. But that is not as common a problem as women being sexually assaulted is.
What the FUCK is wrong with Uttar Pradesh? Because it is almost always Uttar Pradesh. And more importantly, why isn't the government doing anything about it?
Sometimes I don't know why I keep living
Haven't been thrown out of enough ambulances.
We all got to see this train wreck through to the end
Just India things ❤️
D: r/BrandNewSentence
This reminds me of the ambulance scene from the movie Redirected.
He was just tempting fate by leaving a town called Lucknow in an ambulance.
(due to financial limitations)
It was a joke. Dark humor is a coping mechanism that helps some of us avoid letting the existential dread creep in. Slaughterhouse 5 "so it goes" and all.
I've been hearing more and more veiled racism against Indians in the US the past few years, it's probably because of stories like this.
JFC what a shit hole.
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