Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Accused of ‘hate Mongering’ in India

He was accused of 'hate mongering' by a certain subset of people. The only thing he did was posting a pic with some people and one of the woman in the pic was holding a sign stating "#SmashBrahminicalPatriarchy" which is basically against the caste system in India and aligns well with the Indian Constitution. The people who were butthurt by this are the radical elements which are constantly degrading the image of Indians inside as well as outside India

I am not sure why the message from 'bhengaij' was flagged, as it was largely accurate (although perhaps worded poorly). This is an unbelievably ignorant and insensitive move on Jack Dorsey's part. He got involved in a country's cultural politics in the worst way, impulsively holding up a sign that has a very biased, potentially violent message, targeting a religious minority that makes up < 5% of India. This is jumping straight into complicated local issues whose nature can be very hard for foreigners to understand without knowing local history, culture, and language, no matter which country we're talking about.

From what I am seeing on Twitter and in various articles on this topic, Hindus have been under attack from all sides in India, stemming all the way back from colonial era divide-and-conquer tactics that put the country's traditional systems and culture into disarray. These have since been exacerbated by Western-influenced education systems/textbooks, the cutthroat populist politics of India, attempts by the Catholic church to replace Hinduism with Catholism (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-11-08-991108...), overwhelming affirmative action policies (with 50%+ reserved quotas at educational institutions and government jobs), and more recently, even Western (leftist) activism. Moreover, despite claims of oppressive power, 65% of Brahmins live below the poverty line (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119889387595256961), as compared to 60% of India overall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India).

That's a lot to think about, and obviously Jack and his people did not think about it at all when they chose to meet with these activists privately or take a photo with this poster.

More generally, leaders of companies need to stop getting involved in politics or caving to the pressures of activism. They need to focus on their fundamental business goals and know where that line is where they start to favor the ideologies and political missions of one slice of their customer or employee base. Google is probably the worst example of this, where it seems a strong ideological echo chamber has been formed by a vocal minority, who want to use their political activism as the new decision-making framework for the company and also the new guidelines for what ideas are allowed to be voiced. It's bad for everyone, especially so when entities of such enormous wealth, power, and influence start to take sides. Twitter is a platform of similarly tremendous scale and needs to avoid falling into the same trap.

looks like anything negative about bayarea white boysclub is flagged by ycombinator. News with no value with just 3 points in the frontpage while this link that got 8 points in less than hour and is now in the third page.