If you are on mastodon you are here for good content. And from Indian twitter minority voices plays an important role, one of my favourite minority voices who isn’t scared to speak the truth to anyone is someone you should be following if you are here. He explains how minorities are treated in India. Some of you may loathe him but that’s fine, listen to him and then loathe him , so follow @OpusOfAli 💓💓

@Deepsealioness

I will check out his posts thanks.

I am curious, what groups would you consider "minority" in india. From the perspective of an American or a Dutch person (the cultures I know best) an indian would be considered a minority, of course in india they are the majority. So what groups are usually the minorities there?

@OpusOfAli

@freemo @OpusOfAli Hindus are majority, Muslims, Christians, sikhs are the larger groups of religious minorities who have faced communal violence. Parsis, Jains are religious minorities who are not largely affected. Muslims right now are targeted by the fascists ruling India

@Deepsealioness

Thanks so much for that info. Sad.

@OpusOfAli

@freemo

It is very sad , also Kashmir an entire state has been under lockdown for almost 100 days now ! Kashmir is the only Muslim majority state in India. We don’t have any idea what is happening because they cut of Internet on August 5th

@OpusOfAli

@Deepsealioness

Holy hell how did I not hear of that! That sounds scary.

One thing QOTO provides for some is a way to ensure their posts wont get taken down by governments. In the past I've heard this said by several chinese members of the group. I am proud to offer that service and should the chinese government ever try to stop us we would of course refuse (one reason we host our servers in many redundant locations, particularly the data).

Sounds like india might be going down a similar path of censorship and if that is so, that is very scary :(

@OpusOfAli