A school teacher in India has subjected a seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom, asking his classmates to slap him and asking for him to be evicted due to his religion, a video now viral on social media has revealed.
The video, which surfaced on Friday, showed Trapta Tyagi, the teacher at the school in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, making Islamophobic remarks in addition to encouraging other students to slap him harder.
Disgraceful. Humanity is having a very hard time in leaving barbarism behind.
I see why people are outraged, no student should be slapped for just being Muslim.
How about “no student should be slapped
for just being Muslim”If they behaved like shit it’s still wrong but somehow justifiable if the person thinks it’d help them better themselves.
Slapping for something they just are just antagonizes them while showing the rest of the class that that’s okay to do to Muslims
I don’t think you need to find some edge case where it is okay for kids to be beaten or rank the level of how evil and good various situations are. Just say that people should not be subject to violence except in very dire, regular people will never encounter, situations. Most people will understand.
I didn’t want to say it’s ever okay
I just wanted to say that in this case it doesn’t even have some good intentions
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One might come to the conclusion that all of India is just a comically evil racist, classist, sexist and a lot of other bad -ists society while reading news about it.
Talk to a dark skin person of lower caste its not great
Are you a brahmin or why would you describe talking to someone from a lower caste as ‘not great’?
Just kidding.
Like they talk to anyone of a lower class lol
I guess they are saying that if you speak to a person of lower caste, especially of dark skin you will understand their struggle. (But I am a naive person so my explanation might be hopelessly optimistic about people)
There’s also the 2nd level of hell that is being born in the right sub-caste in a specific caste.
Going out on a limb here to guess that “Hank” has never been to India?
There’s a whole lot of crazy bad but also an incredible amount of absurdly beautiful. I think unfortunately the worldview in India accepts both equally and generally believes, in the words of Bruce Hornsby or Tupac, that’s just the way it is.
If your worldview accepts horribly bad and good, it’s still horribly bad. You can’t wash that away with some good.
I don’t disagree at all. And if your worldview allows you to paint 1.4B people with the same brush based on the news you’ve read, also quite horribly bad (and pretty fucking racist) IMO.
You’ve changed my mind.
Like all the poor innocent Germans who were lumped in with the government they voted for, supported, and allowed to exist.
It was wrong to call them Nazis and disapprove of the genocide they were committing!
Ding ding ding we got a Godwin 🔔🔔
Ironic, you quote Godwins law but even Godwin himself has said such a mention is not cause for ending a conversation.
So instead of missing the point of Godwins law like you have, instead focus on what was said: Why seperate Indians from their state, but not do so with other notable examples of genocide commiters?
I imagine most stories of people helping old windows, adopting children, and being best friends with another race don’t make the international news.
Man bites dog.
I was told that only white people can be racist.
Muslim isn’t a race
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
Barnshaw, John (2008). “Race”. In Schaefer, Richard T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Vol. 1
(first sentence of the wikipedia article, emphasis mine)
I would say that, strictly speaking, race, religion, and culture are different things, but with a lot over overlap. “Jewish” is a perfect example of this. “Jewish” can refer to religion, race, nationality, and/or culture - in any combination, all at the same time.
Well that is because almost no one is part of the religion if they aren’t from the ethnic groups and people who are part of the ethnic groups generally follow the religion and culture. It is a near perfect circle venn diagram. Unlike religions like Islam and Christianity and to a lesser extent Buddhism.
Close enough.
That makes it okay?
