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There's this paper on how New Zealand went about completing Agriculture reforms. This is the link : https://doi.org/10.1080/15693430601108086

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The comment is about the third point in "What outrage means". For reference, this is what you wrote:

"Third, there's the other question that usually comes up along with the imagined victimhood. Why only choose Hindu rituals? Why not show such ads using rituals of other Abrahamic faiths? Well, if some 82 per cent of the people in India are Hindus,...."

To the question "Why the Hindus are always the butt of reforms/jokes", you gave a reason that Hindus are the majority. Let us call it reason-A.

There is another reason-B. In most cases, lampooning or pointing out "backwardness" in Hindus cause a non-violent outrage, maybe a few court cases. But if any ad/standup-comic targets Muslims in our Muslim majority neighbours (or sometimes even in India), the consequence can be chopped-hands, beheaded torso and similar kinds of stuff. That is the reason the companies/agencies/standup-comics carefully avoid Muslims. As a Hindu, it enrages me, and I refuse to allow my religion to bear the burden of open-mindedness single-handedly.

I also find it disturbing that the reason-B did not cross your mind. Or even if it did cross your mind, you chose to omit it.

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