This Month in Hinduphobia — December 2022
Note: Handles were selected based on validated content.
Introduction
This monthly report, based on data collected from Hindumisia.ai, enables readers, commentators, activists, and the media to understand the trends in Hinduphobic chatter in the Twitter sphere. We offer the data using simple descriptive statistics and in the form of graphics, diagrams, as well as text. We offer screen grabs to highlight prominent Hinduphobic Twitter handles as well as most egregious of tweets from lesser-known Twitter handles.
The report below is generated from data collected in the month of December 2022.
Topics/Events that Triggered Hinduphobia
Hinduphobic tweets this month have revolved around several issues: Caste-based abuse of Hindus and Brahmins, calling Hindus as a “radicalized majority”, Equating Hindutva with crime, thuggery and casteism, Irrational fear over Hindutva supremacy. Continued attacks on Vivek Agnihotri for making The Kashmir Files. Continued online abuse of prominent Hindus on Caste. Misrepresenting Hindus celebrating their festivals as oppressive, polluting, and politically charged. These were a major part of toxic discourse on Twitter in the month of December 2022.
Tweets from Prominent Handles
Egregious Tweets from Other Handles
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Select Entities/Persons Targeted by Hate Mongers
Entity/Person | Reason |
Indian Cricket Team | Supposed caste bias |
RSS | Gets abuse for Hindutva supremacy canards, casteism, brahminism |
GHHF & HAF | Organizations like Global Heritage Hindu Foundation & Hindu American Foundation under attack for advocacy of Hindu causes
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Call for Action
- Report Tweets for hateful conduct (Use Twitter’s feature to report the tweet/handle)
- Tag important Social Media personalities, Think Tanks, Twitter, Law enforcement or Government handles on Twitter with this report.
- Share this report with local lawmakers in your constituency electronically.
- Please share this report widely in Social Media.
A Word of Caution
If the Hinduphobic tweets do not have any Likes or Re-tweets or comments, do not give agency by commenting. Report them using Twitter’s own mechanism.
Methodology
Data Sourced From —
hindumisia.ai enables an analytical approach to countering anti-Hindu hate on Twitter leveraging Artificial Ingelligence techniques and Natural Language processing.
Questions about the AI Model: contact@hindumisia.ai or @hindumisia
Contact
Author | Editor | |
Name | Nishant Limbachia | Prof. Ramesh N Rao |
@indiancatch22 | @RameshNRao | |
Questions about the Report: editor.indiafacts@gmail.com |