I think anytime anything happens to some minority in the the Great USA, us Indians also need to call our MP and ask them to create noise.
I mean this is utterly condescending and racist.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25976320.
There is nothing racist about the international community raising concerns about violations of basic democratic rights such as free speech and right of assembly.
> I think anytime anything happens to some minority in the the Great USA, us Indians also need to call our MP and ask them to create noise.
I would support Indians doing this. Please raise concerns with your representatives when you see human rights violations in any part of the world and ask them to speak about it in international forums. In the past, India has done a commendable job in helping minorities persecuted by the CCP. Many Tibetian Buddhists were given refuge in India, including Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959. Contrary to it's history, India is staying mum on contemporary persecution of religious minorities in neighboring countries such as Rohingyas in Myanmar and Uyghurs in China.
>>> Lots of people care for Indians, the Chinese and Russians too!
One of them is not like the others. India is not an authoritarian, one party system like the others. It was that for a few years when the congress held sway. Now it is a vibrant democracy. At the state level there are state parties and at the national level there are national parties which get elected. There is no authoritarianism here.
BJP may not come to power next time because of a myriad reasons. If they actually come to power it is because people want them to. Of course people may detract this saying populist (which has become a dirty word now), but whatever all the power to the people man.
I thought they are asking them to write to their Indian reps. If that's not true, then it's outright interference.