right wing Hindu nationalism has always been treated like a little bit of a side oddity here in the US but it is a horrifying, supremacist ideology and Tulsi Gabbard is all mixed up in it
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She's terrifying and what a dangerous position, not that it would matter who he put there, they'd all be appalling ok going back to ostrich position send food
one last thing: neither of her parents is south asian, which is consequential insofar as she went out of her way to become invested in this ideology; it’s not like she grew up unthinkingly imbibing it along with chai and nimki at the kitchen table
Okay, this might be a really dumb question, but I didn’t think a person could convert to Hinduism. And either way it’s wild to learn all of this, I had no idea!
There’s a whole VHP/Hindutva-allied industry that’s been active for a long time among Western converts to Hinduism. The Himalayan Academy/Hinduism Today. David Frawley. And so on.
She grew up in a group that was Hare Krishna adjacent, right? Chris Butler's group, IIRC. Though I don't know how much sympathy that group had for this stuff at the time she was growing up.
uhh her mother gave her children hindu names. she was influenced by hinduism a lot and so was tulsi and started practising it. it pretty much was her childhood if u trust what wikipedia says (idk if i should in this case) but yeah. shes been hindu from a LONG time.
Did not need to learn this thing today. Time to log off.
I think @nameshiv.bsky.social pointed out that MAGA's real model is Hindutva, but they're both too dumb and too racist to admit it.
This is highly concerning. It is about time we ask Democratic governors to ban temples of operasive ideologies like Hinduism from operating openly and creating hostility against other minorities in USA
temples/mosques/churches are not symbols of right wing ideologies. theyre just temples?? theyre weaponised by nationalists in every religion yeah but why would u ban temples?
Hindutva and Hinduism are two sides of a same coin. Since Hindutva is incompatible with American values and danger to the world, it needs to be eradicated from its root. How else would you go about destroying its roots?
the same goes for every religion. so every religion needs to be annihilated? christian nationalism is incompatible with american secular values as well. lets destroy all churches and mosques as well? thats a stupid argument. eradicate extremism in all religions- not the religions themselves.
If any of your followers want a deep academic dive into the history of Hindu nationalism I recommend Christophe Jaffrelot's *The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India* (Columbia UP, 1996). I'm sure there's more updated scholarship out there that others can recommend.
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I think @nameshiv.bsky.social pointed out that MAGA's real model is Hindutva, but they're both too dumb and too racist to admit it.
https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/152-tulsi-gabbards-krishna-consciousness-nitai-joseph
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