Fail to see how a Hindu temple in Tennessee is a negative. Does the poster not like Vindaloo curry or something?
This is so on point with something I saw recently.
I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1, and last night, I watched "the other side" (S04E02).
For anyone who hasn't watched it recently and either hasn't memorized every episode, or can't be bothered to look it up, the people they encountered were fighting for survival, with dreams of pushing back their enemy and eventually eradicating them. Through the course of the episode, everything seems fairly normal, it's just a war, right? Then you realize that everyone they deal with is white, everyone they're trying to help, in stasis or otherwise, is white, and they've asked O'Neil to not bring back Teal'c when he says he's returning to the SGC....
Turns out, though they didn't say it, it was a race war. As soon as they discovered that, they actively sabotaged their efforts to defend themselves against those who "breed without any regard to genetic purity", then promptly bail, letting them get destroyed.
Because the point was made without explicitly stating what was going on, it was a very clever episode. They were all ready to be on good terms with these technologically advanced people, then discovered that they're racists and promptly set in motion the events that would end their lives.
If that's not social commentary, I couldn't tell you what is. Especially with shit like the OP floating around.
Shoutout to SG-1! I grew up on it and it has a special place in my heart. They had their stinkers, but boy did they have range, from black comedy gold to action adventure to existential awe to solid political commentary, and with a fantastic ensemble of characters.
What a weird fucking thing to post.
Racists are fucking weird, man.
I made a tiktok account to shit talk cons and my feed was quickly filled with white supremacy stuff, shitting on Indians just for existing in Canada. super disappointing
edit: also whenever I open the app, it's that fucking Kiki account with the AI Trump girls
When I was homeless, I ate many free meals at my local Sikh temple (gurdwara). I didn't even know my city had a gurdwara until I heard it recommended as a place to go food. I remember when I first turned up, I felt super awkward (a common feeling if you're often having to rely on the charity of others), but I was made to feel super welcome and it's something I reflect fondly on in what was otherwise an extremely dark period of my life
When I was a starving graduate students, I ate many meals provided by the local Hare Krishna temple. Lunch from them was nominally $1 but if you didn't have any money they would feed you anyway. It made me feel very bad for all the times I referred to them as "hairy fishnuts".
I'm glad you were able to get through those dark times. I hope you're doing well.
Be well.
I don't think they realise which side India was on
FWIW some Indians did fight for the Japanese in WWII. They were treated, um, unpleasantly when they were caught by allied Indian troops.
I know right? It's kind of impressive how many layers of stupidity and ignorance are piled on top of each other here.
I don't think I could come up with something this dumb if I were deliberately trolling.
Both ww1 and ww2. India sent over a million soldiers to Europe during ww1. Can you imagine those guys traveling back time, joining the German army (like they would be accepted!) Only for them and their unit to get wiped by some dark-skinned guy from Calcutta who doesn't speak any English?
"In addition to the cut of your gib, I likes the name of your town...
Murfreesboro."
-Strongbad
I didn't get into strongbad back in the day... but I wish I did.
The first mosque in the US was built in the 1890s...
What is he even thinking? That WW2 was some sort of holy crusade for Apple Pie and Jesus?
Yes, don’t you remember? The Germans were Muslim immigrants.
I mean it's really easy to misspell Nazi Germany as Muslims when the basic literacy rate is only 15 points above 50.
The right has a very funny relationship with Indians and their diaspora. On one hand, India's far right (Hindutva) has been a model for western white supremacists. On the other hand, Indians are still brown-skinned "others" so they have to hate them too.
Certain high caste (higher social standing) individuals made a living off of aiding and abetting exploitative colonial leaders and their descendants today aspire to do the same. There are also some Indians who are Christians (often ones who's families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times) who feel that brings them closer to more the more regressive white people that run the US now.
Its a fascinating relationship but doesn't how Indians in general feel towards rising white supremacy in the US. For every bobby jindal there are 5 ro khannas.
often ones who’s families were converted in the colonial era, not in ancient times
Kerala (southern-most state in India) is about 20% Christian and the community dates to long before the arrival of the British.
As a Louisiana citizen, fuck Bobby Jindal.
An Indian friend whose family was Christian said that it used to really cook other kids brains when they would ask him what Caste he was and he'd say he didn't have one
If they lived in India, I'm pretty sure they still had one even if they didn't acknowledge it.
They would have had one prior to conversion. Social stratification is not an easy thing to shake off and was codified during the colonial era as European powers strongly believed in hierarchies, especially racial / colorist ones. The British in particular gave institutional power to those that were higher caste and criminalized those that were lower caste in a way that was not common prior to that era.
I am familiar with several South Indian Christian communities and there is no persistence of caste there though social stratification does it exist as it does universally.
I lived in a city with a big Hindu temple and lots of Indian diaspora.
You know what that did for my standard of living? It gave me a lot of cheap, healthy and delicious places to eat.
I grew up near a Thai Buddhist temple in the panhandle of Florida, and it was about the same. They did a charity cookout type thing every weekend, which was open to the public and they did a bunch of cultural and religious ceremonies right next to or right there in the little marketplace they set up for the cookout. It was a great way to kill a few hours on a sunday; $5 or $6 for a plate of pad thai and a skewer of thai bbq pork, see some cool ceremonies, sometimes end up talking with somebody from the temple for a bit. Absolutely blew my mind that a religious gathering could be so actively enjoyable after I grew up going to mass
I wish Indian food were cheap around here. We have a healthy number of Indian immigrants and several restaurants, but they're pricey. Delicious, worth it, but not cheap. And come to think of it, not terribly healthy, at least the way I order.
The good, cheap places you kind of had to hear about from people in the know.
There was one food truck on a university campus run by an amazing, nice guy from southern India. He gave you enough vegetarian, delicious food for two meals for the price of Big Mac (this was in the 1990s). He would give you food if you were broke. Sadly, he died pretty young from cancer, I think it was.
Sounds absolutely HORRIBLE, I can't believe you were expected to live like that 😭😭/s
A tragedy is the view count. 1.2M views!?
The sooner a meteor hits Twitter from orbit, the better. It’s literally designed to make money pissing people off with stuff like this.
What's really funny is that 25 years into the War on Terror the writer can't tell the difference between Hindu and Islamic faiths. I mean 'know your enemy' is basic military training.
The enemy is melanin.
...says the guy with the fake tan!
There’s absolutely nothing about the original tweet that makes sense. India was a major contributor to the allied war effort, albeit not entirely voluntarily. Though I suppose the same could be said for most countries due to conscription and even the cancellation of elections.
Unfortunately, it does make sense through a neo-nazi lens. “The wrong side won WWII” and similar sentiments are getting a lot of traction on twitter, facebook, etc. right now. The OP in the image is sarcastically “glad” that the Allies won. He would have preferred that the nazis had won so the global third reich could protect Murfreesboro, TN from people who are different than him and fulfill whatever other twisted racist fantasies exist in these people’s minds.
Not to mention colonies. Some gained independence after WW2
I mean in this case "enemies" is just "brown people." It doesn't matter what they call them.
I don't understand. India was allied with Germany and Italy now? Is that what's happening?
Don't bother trying to understand.
I agree it's unclear and took me second read to get it.
Basically I think the op on the image is saying that hindu temples in tennese is bad, and "we won ww2" means they shouldn't be allowed to (for some reason).
The person replying is saying they're right, we did win ww2, which let's us have religious freedom, like building non Christian temples in the US.
The "sorry your side lost" is the replier calling the op a nazi. Nit siding with the op and implying the Hindus were on the losing side
I think the first poster is being sarcastic, saying that the allies shouldn’t have won WW2 because Hindu temples are bad, and if the third reich had taken over the world, they wouldn’t be allowed. (Or he may mean that the US should have sided with Germany.)
Having just been in Murfreesboro a couple days ago, lemme tell ya, that temple adds a lot of much-needed class…
I don't ever usually go to Murfreesboro but I didn't know this was there. Now I'm questioning if there is some decent restaurants that I have been missing out on.
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