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   Rajeev Kumar (drupler@bihar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:14:24 JST Rajeev Kumar

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   • Karthik S

   @tokyo_0 @beastoftraal No, I don't think so. Society is still the same, but now politics have also caught up with society + due to the internet we have started coming across more such stories.

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     Karthik S (beastoftraal@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 18:59:05 JST Karthik S

     At one point, this would have seemed 'wrong' to many Indians. But in the last 9 years, this has been totally normalized, and now most Indians feel that this is precisely what we wanted, what we voted for, and will vote for again.

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     Rajeev Kumar (drupler@bihar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:00:52 JST Rajeev Kumar

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     @beastoftraal Indian society was always like this!

     I have lived in all 4 metropolitan cities and few two tier cities before 2014 -- used to help friends find room wherever I lived and experience wasn't any different.

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     Karthik S (beastoftraal@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:29:38 JST Karthik S

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     @drupler @tokyo_0 That's the specific difference I was highlighting. The situation has not "worsened". It has been "normalized". This is a shift in the Overton Window gradually over time. Such instances of segregation have become "acceptable", now.

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     Rajeev Kumar (drupler@bihar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 21:15:46 JST Rajeev Kumar

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     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
     • Karthik S

     @beastoftraal No it's not. Infant, it has improved substantially over the years.

     I come from a village in Bihar with population of 6k+ with 60 percent Muslims. I have been born and bought up there and still in very close touch (was just there last month). I have seen this first hand on the ground which is different from what it usually feels like from internet stories.

     Like I have mentioned earlier -- politics have caught up with society, and no doubt that's making the natural progression of this improvement a bit slow.

     But on the ground situation isn't like what we see online. Otherwise people who are trolled everyday on the internet shouldn't be able to move anywhere physically.

     @tokyo_0