I generally like and sympathize with Indian people, both in India and in the Indian diaspora. I don't like the stereotyping they face, or the penalty that Indian men in particular face in the "dating marketplace."

That said, if engineers could harness the kinetic energy of my entire body cringing when I read the political views of certain Indians, we could abandon all of our efforts to develop renewable sources of energy and just hook me right into the power grid.

The people I am thinking of are Indians who have "westernized" and are very focused either on 1) India joining the so-called community of developed nations; and 2) Indians in the diaspora who are trying a bit too hard to assimilate.

It is easy for an outsider to look at wealthier countries and identify the urban and educated left wing. From there, if you want your own country to be perceived as developed, cosmopolitan, etc., you might decide to embrace the views of the left wing of the developed world as a way of ingratiating yourself and your country with these people you admire. You want your country to be "first world," and the UK and Germany are more developed than, say, Hungary or Alabama, so you espouse views that would fit into the politics of educated people from the UK or Germany... and you talk down in ridiculous ways to the rest of us.

Such things are done based on a very shallow understanding of things happening in other countries, and are made for mercenary reasons. You want to live in a wealthy, contemporary country with modern amenities, so you ape the people who seem to conform to this ideal without really understanding them.

I and many others on this site would tell you that those people are profoundly broken (and in many cases developed their political views in the same broken way as you are, albeit from a slightly higher vantage point), but it doesn't really matter. Don't be mimetic in parroting the views of others, and don't build your philosophy around wanting to seem wealthier or more intelligent.

Here's a pretty horrifying example of what I mean: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/abortion-pill-at-home-activists-future-roe-v-wade

At that link, we see a silly girl from the British Indian diaspora suggesting ways that people in American "red states" can build machines to perform abortions at home. It should go without saying that this is a terrible idea, from a medical standpoint alone. Beyond that, if you are in Louisiana and you want an abortion, get out! Abortion is, it would seem, anathema to the cultural norms of that place.

What someone should absolutely not do in such a situation is to take the medical and ethical advice of some ridiculous woman on the other side of the world who's coming from a much different religious tradition and doesn't understand a damned thing about morality or politics in Louisiana and just wants to seem urbane and educated.

Another example: https://indiacurrents.com/them-they-what-do-south-asians-know-about-inclusive-gender-pronouns/

This example is different in its tone. It's more of a bland exposition of the left wing "party line" on a topic (muh pronouns). It's no worse than any other throwaway Slate.com / Salon.com article on the topic, but I doubt anyone will be impressed or educated by it. It's just nothing but "me too! me too! India will be a superpower soon!" So, this second article really isn't so much dangerous as it is cringe-inducing.

Of course there are right wing Indians, and right wing people in the Indian diaspora, and some of them are pretty silly as well. In the former category you have Hindu Nationalism (WTF is that- "believe in these 84 gods or die"?) and in the latter category you have, well, Bobby Jindal. If anyone could make God himself cringe, it's Bobby Jindal.

These people may warrant our derision, too, but that's not my topic here. Left wing Indians, reexamine your motives, adopt a more humble attitude towards that you cannot understand, and just fucking be better- please.