Sure. But normally a headline tells you who did what. That’s the point of a headline.

Active sentence construction is one of the first skills they teach in journalism.

“Carcinogens Cause Cancer in Cows” not something useless like “Cancer is Caused In Cows.”

Sorry I misinterpreted you! :-)

why didn’t he run away sooner? Usually perpetrators escape after the abuse

No, they don’t. Statistically the majority of rapes are by people who know the victim personally. In cases of intimate partner rape the perpetrator does not typically “run away from” his wife or girlfriend etc afterwards.

It doesn’t sound reasonable. Its argument is neoliberal economics at its worst:“we don’t want countries to be able to control their own domestic food markets because we want them to be forced to take our exports”, only counched in paternalistic We Know What’s Best For You rhetoric.

“Settlers” isonly weird to you if you discount all the other times settler colonialists stole land and committed ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I look forward to watching the Hasbara trolls try to discredit one of the world’s leading STEM research journals.

No, it was in 2020.

No on both counts.

S2 is better than S1.

I appreciate this comment.

particularly women with some sort of past trauma that gives them an instinctual fear response

Surely the answer to traumatised women is to give them accommodations and special treatment, not to punish anyone who sets off that trauma response because of perceptions about that person’s race or gender.

forcing politicians to vote along party lines

They are not forced to vote along party lines. However, they don’t get to stay in the party unless they vote with it. They become Independent.

Some issues, usually moral issues, are “conscience” votes and there is no party line for those.

He wasn’t a combatant and he hadn’t killed anyone. He was an innocent bystander and even the IDF admit it.

Not sure why you put so much energy into making up a fake scenario.

What part of “no matter who does it” did you not understand.

I’m embarassed for you.

I think arseholes are distributed evenly too.

If 5% of all people are arseholes, everywhere, then a country with 50 million people has 2.5 million arseholes. But a country with 1,428,000,000 people has over 71 million arseholes. This is why they seem to be over represented by the large nations.

You are right that we are more likely to notice them if they travel near us or communicate in a language we understand. This is why Estonians are more likely to think badly of Finns whereas South Africans are more likely to think badly of Nigerians.

Killing civilians doesn’t avenge anything, no matter who does it.

One of the largest countries in the world and a hell of a lot of ethnic diversity, so it’s hard to make generalizations. Kerala and, say, UP are very different. But here’s my attempt.

Geopolitically as an entity it’s currently suffering from some of the same things the world’s other largest countries (China, US, Indonesia) are suffering from - namely: populist leaders and a large group of poorly educated people in the population propping them up.

Consequently there is way too much militant nationalism and complacency about aggression towards other nations, territorialism, persecution of certain ethnic minorities, religious fundamentalism. All the biggest countries have those traits at the moment, so it’s not specifically a reflection on India.

In terms of resource and development it’s dealing with a similar situation to other ex colony LICs - years of resource exploitation left it with a low GDP per capita and consequently major challenges when it comes to provision of infrastructure (eg pollution management), health, education, living standards etc.

India has made huge strides in the past but the current wave of populism relies on leveraging social conflict (as it does elsewhere in the eorld) so I think that growth has slowed. For the same reason the fault lines along ethnic, religious, caste lines - which colonialism entrenched or deepened within the region - are still a big aspect.

My personal experiences with Indian people is that just like from anywhere else there are good and bad. Cultured, well educated people are easier to deal with because there is more shared knowledge. Statistically speaking, many of the world’s worst arseholes you are going to meet are going to be from India, China and the US, and that holds up.

That’s an interesting theory but there are many churches where women are supposed to put on a hat especially for church.

Probably it has more to do with this rather ridiculous passage from Corinthians:

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Source 1 Corinthians 11: 2-16

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Californians don’t live in Death Valley.

The countries with the hottest temperatures in inhabited areas are places like Kuwait.

Witty.