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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

 

 

 

Twitter Handle Tweet URL
@IAMCouncil https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1602770340844904448
@IAMCouncil https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1601734059079520259
@IAMCouncil https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1600856637124005888
@IAMCouncil https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1605732176724721664
@AudreyTruschke https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1603057574273843205
@AudreyTruschke https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1600638680137441280
@BretherenIndia https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604501595873767427
@AyubDawood9 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1603105891800461312
@ArchanaSonti https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604284099107381249
@DalitChef https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1601207764826525696
@DalitChef https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1608835439879933953
@DalitChef https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1606810643218456578
@ashoswai https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604146945999753219
@subhajit_n https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1605116919153299456
@HindutvaWatchIn https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1601641855292407808
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

 

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

 

Nishant Limbachia

Nishant Limbachia holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from M S University, Vadodara and an MBA from IIT Chicago. Nishant is involved in the local Hindu community as a volunteer.