Socially Accepted Riots || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Religious fanatics and bigots - Where do they come from? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2023)

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00:00If there is a rioter, the police may not be able to locate his identity, but for sure

00:05there are some people who definitely know who that person is.

00:08His wife knows, his parents know, his friends know.

00:12Think of a situation where this fellow engages in an act of rioting and returns home and

00:17is disowned by his wife.

00:19Would he still manage to remain the kind of ignorant figure that he is?

00:25Or just as family members partake in the bribe money that you bring home, they also partake

00:31in all kinds of toxic attitudes.

00:34Whatever they are doing is more or less actively or passively socially accepted.

00:40That's why they can afford to do what they do.

00:43Had they known that for displaying all kinds of perverse attitudes and behaviors in the

00:49name of religion, they would be socially ostracized, would they have still dared to do what they

00:54are doing?