Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days.

  • Dr. Moose
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    1317 days ago

    The “everything is fault of the British” is such a cop out. India and the region had no trouble dividing themselves very publicly with caste systems, no?

    People just need education.

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      17 days ago

      The British popularized the phrase, which gives away the playbook. The rich and powerful use this playbook time and again to divide the masses. Education should help, but siloed propaganda is really effective to counter even education because propaganda uses fear & hate to bring out the animal in you, and when you’re angry and scared you forget all reason and all education.

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        17 days ago

        This playbook existed way before Britain did. Even in ancient India.

        We know for a fact that one things works against all of these playbooks - education.

        • @[email protected]
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          216 days ago

          Just to be technically correct, very little evidence suggests caste system was abused in ancient India, that maybe because figuring out ancient India is hard due to lack of archeological evidence. But most of the horrible abuses of caste system are documented around 900AD and later.

          • Dr. Moose
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            115 days ago

            Sure but the local monarchies of that time still had strong status and seggregation systems afaik