Stop weaponizing historical suffering

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I used to wonder how people could deny the Holocaust. Now that I see people denying the best documented massacre in history that happened just a few months ago, I no longer have to wonder. There's just one thing I don't understand: is this mental illness or pure evil?

https://twitter.com/VerminusM/status/1768083722081882622?t=qcI2XDmNRgd5elXmOOcprQ&s=19

Took me a while, at least a decade to understand how in the digital age of photographs, videos, telephone, newspapers and witness testimonies, the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits and rational Muslims was denied by the "Jagmohan" canard spread by intellectuals, journalists and civil society. 

The pattern never changed. It's always the ones who make a career out of social justice.

https://twitter.com/arshiaunis/status/1768136918212980885?t=jbDxdLz8FuwghTOXZF6AOw&s=19

Historical atrocities like the holocaust should be approached with reverence and a commitment to truth. 

The Holocaust represents one of the darkest chapters in human history, and its unique horror should not be diminished or likened to other events lightly, especially ones that have been fabricated. 

Stop weaponizing historical suffering to evade scrutiny for being shitty.

Eventually, the world will know anyway.

https://twitter.com/MChase00/status/1768104283713495126?t=OJ8Gbg2ko6gyGFhlm1tjKQ&s=19

Nobody knows what Jesus said.

All we have is texts written centuries later. 

Nobody knows what Siddhartha Gautama said.

All we have is texts written centuries later.

Nobody knows what Muhammad heard.

All we have is texts written centuries later.

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1767790226603168071?t=tyCm8e23Wlk1ghirjhzypg&s=19

To make vegetarians happy, I wrote this factual article.

Eat your jackfruit and read....

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1767816726924742910?t=XE9neB2l0h4Lg13ypxu-GA&s=19

Right now, new history is being written for Indians. Based on astronomical information from ancient texts,... This, however, is not unique to India, or to the 21st century. In the 19th century, some Europeans argued that the Bible was real history,... In China, there is a movement to prove that the Bible is not a Western text,... Imagined history has always served ideologies. Colonial powers have sought to present pre-colonial states as barbaric and savage to justify their imperial outreach... In India today, the rising tide of Hindutva ideology needs to show that all that happened before its arrival was colonial, Western, and anti-Hindu. Only that will establish the new rulers of the land as saviours, and justify their acts of dismantling institutions.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/devdutt-pattanaik-it-is-not-just-hindus-who-love-an-imagined-past-2934318 

One thing all education ministers under Nehru aimed to do—make Indians doubt ancient values

3 days ago — The Nehruvian Consensus which moved the Indian nation-state for almost 40 years, shattered and demolished the ideas of the Civilisational ...In any case, the academic curriculum was manoeuvred to showcase the medieval period in a positive light. On the other hand, the ancient period—when most of the Indian literature was written and arts, culture and science flourished—was deliberately sidelined. The sultans of Delhi were portrayed as the emperors of India though there were many big and independent states flourishing in different parts of India at the same time.