The Grim Lesson India Offers the US: Right-wing violence is on the rise in the world’s two largest democracies.
, “The campaign today that claims to defend [the cow] has nothing to do with love of any kind.” It is instead “another highly emotive symbol to beat down India’s minorities into submission and fear.”
As Mander has pointed out, such beef bans are a tool for subjugating Muslims, Dalits , Christians, and Adivasis to Hindu rule. Strange as it may sound, an American analogy could be the criminalization of abortion. In one country, cattle, in the other, human fetuses are being used as right-wing implements to oppress, socially control, and reassert supremacy over significant sections of our respective populations.
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