webartisan

Who talked about the balkanisation of India? The OP is pointing out an inaccurate fact — Europe did not break up on religion.

We could all use a little drama to support our points here.

Mate, you do realise that Whataboutery is simply another way to have a faux conversation with yourself?

There’s little one can do if some in the country are hell bent on putting their heads in sands like an ostrich. Doesn’t change the truth, unfortunately.

As for Al Jazeera and other channels you mentioned, they can be watched online – unlike the Modi documentary.

What made you remove it?

Well, it is an object fact though — isn't it? Twitter is an order of magnitude smaller than Meta, and Facebook / Meta / Zuckerberg have been fined and trialled an order of magnitude more times than twitter for its deeds. Whistleblowers have presented an order of magnitude more documentation and proof for Facebook's shady practices. It is only fair that it is discussed an order of magnitude more times than Twitter.

Just because you want the two to be "equally bad" doesn't make it so, and bringing up Y when the topic is X in this case is the textbook definition of whataboutery.

Being the vaccine manufacturing hub of the world since a few decades, if India did not manufacture its own vaccines it would be a shock. I don’t think that’s something unusual – if anything failure to scale up vaccine manufacturing that led to a deadly second wave is to be considered an abject failure.

I don’t get this Whataboutery? The news story and the article is about Meta - why bring Twitter or any other media into discussion, unless you want to distract from the topic at hand.

I think you should speak for yourself instead of for all Indians. You believing or not believing something has little effect on facts. Bullying everyone into believing your unquestioned love for the present day government is rather disenginious.

It's not about your laws vs my laws — I think we can objectively judge what sort of protections make sense for someone who doesn't necessarily agree with the government of the day, without going into defensive nationalism.

Why would you compare violence from 1980's to 2020? You realise thats a gap of 40 years?

It's almost as if you're trying to find a previous period with same communalism rates going back as far as you need to to prove point.

In terms of trends in the 20th century, there's been a clear noticeable jump after the current government came in, which is what should matter.

Sure, again, context matters. A lot of Delhi, and probably a lot more of Mumbai is just illegal construction, if you were to apply the law squarely, a large part of the cities would be rubble.

You're (perhaps rather knowingly) ignoring the nuance here.