Good to be able to hash out leftist strains to counter reactionary hindu nationalists, etc.
EDIT: Also requesting c/jainism and c/sikhism (in addition to c/buddhism and c/hinduism requested in original OP).
EDIT 2: WTF these replies and the number of upvotes (except for some that seemed to be legit good faith)… No wonder POC don’t feel welcome on this site. Mods? @Beatnik @ScreamoBMO @EcoSoco @Uncle_Hoe @Gorn
EDIT 3: To those asking “How would these comms be relevant?”, asking this is kinda whack in the first place, because why would asking for a religious comm need justification to exist when there are other religious comms already existing? But just for those who do want “justification”, here’s a leftist podcast talking about Buddhism: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/buddhism. As for Hinduism, it’s pretty obvious with Modi and his nationalist goons that it’s a relevant topic. Similarly, it is Sikhs who are risking their lives in the insurrection against the Indian government right now. Oh and one of the most important struggles against colonialism was heavily influenced by the non-violent philosophy of Jainism (i.e. Indian independence from the British). Like I said before, why I even have to justify this in the first place is mega whack, but there you go.
Yeah not gonna lie lots of weird racist undercurrents in this thread.
Yeah communities sound cool but I wonder whether we have anybody from kurdistan at all, or even just two that would want a sub to put content in.
Not too long ago people were saying the exact same thing about trans people. “ThErE’S bArElY aNy Of ThEm WhY sHoUlD wE hAvE a SpAcE fOr ThEm?”
So what, it’s just supposed to be a comm about Jainism with no Jains in it?
The population of Rojava is like 2 million or so. There are probably 5 million Jains in the world. Yet there’s a c/rojava.
I guess I need to repeat myself… what kind of smooth-brained reddit take are you trying to say here?
Sorry I meant that more about online communities in general, not specifically here.
I mentioned why in the OP… that it would be nice to have a place to hash out leftist strains to combat things like hindu nationalism.
I don’t think I’m down for modding, but I’m sure there are plenty that are.
The only ones that I feel somewhat qualified to mod would be hinduism and buddhism. But even then, with Buddhism most of my knowledge is from the Theravada tradition of Burma. As for Hinduism, there are so many varying sects and my knowledge is more of breadth rather than depth.
I don’t think a comm needs to justify itself really.
If their is someone willing to mod it then I don’t see what is lost by allowing it, even if only one person visits it.
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I apologize for the tone of my post, but it didn’t start out that way. I just got somewhat jarred by the responses, and especially by the fact that they were getting a lot of upvotes.