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The joke is not on Modi. The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable.

— Nissim Mannathukkaren

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On Narendra Modi's claim that he was likely the first person to sent digital colour pictures as an email attachment in in India in the late 1980s. Twitter post, 13 May 2019. Quoted in Why the joke is not on Modi but on his 'educated supporters by K.M. Rakesh And G.S. Mudur, published online in 14 May 2019, The Telegraph, the article was soon cited in 'No laughing matter': India’s Modi mocked for tech gaffes by the Agence France-Presse, 13 May 2019, Yahoo! News

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There is something deeply troubling about a culture which makes humans into gods, and which puts people on pedestals to be worshipped. For, it glosses over all blemishes in its quest for the godly.

As examples from history show, when jokes start circulating about a powerful leader, cracks in political legitimacy begin to appear.

To place the responsibility of violence on the illiterate, poor and unemployed mobs is to completely miss the pathologies amongst us, the privileged and the powerful, which are the greatest enablers of violence.

Moral culpability is denied through false equivalence.

It is not that Hindutva supporters equate vastly different phenomena with vastly different consequences, but they also willfully gloss over facts.

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