Bengal violence: How the ‘liberal’ media is whitewashing TMC’s crimes

In the violent aftermath of the 2021 Bengal elections, liberal publications have gone on the offensive in an effort to whitewash, and in some way even justify, the post-election violence that’s going down. Right on cue, two totally different write-ups have appeared in Scroll.in and The Wire. Both of those articles are related in nature, as they each try to downplay the heinous violence in Bengal, labeling it as merely “party politics”.
Article in ScrollArticle in The Wire The Scroll.in piece is titled, “Why BJP’s labelling of Bengal post-election violence as communal is misleading”, and this headline in itself reveals the difficulty. It performs right into a narrative that perceives “communal” violence to be worse than some other form of violence. This mentality is inherently flawed, and has no foundation in morality, however is in some way ubiquitous within the un-elected ‘intellectual’ class of this nation.
The article doesn’t dispute the violence that occurred, it solely takes challenge with the BJP allegedly characterizing the violence as “communal”. Think about that for a second. The article reads, “This is why the BJP’s labelling of the violence as communal is wrong. People throughout communities have gotten attacked – not solely Hindus, because the BJP claims. The solely sample is that by and huge, the individuals getting attacked are from the opposition and the attackers from the Trinamool. The violence is political, not communal.“
So the article admits that the post-election violence in Bengal is by and huge being perpetrated by attackers from Trinamool Congress. However, that isn’t the first thrust of the article, neither is it even emphasised upon. The article’s major goal is to disprove the notion that post-election violence is “communal”. What precisely does this serve to realize? Should we not be involved in regards to the lawlessness and violence plaguing Bengal as a result of it isn’t “communal”? Should the households of BJP, CPI(M), and Congress employees who had been both injured or killed throughout this violence really feel higher that at the very least they weren’t victims of “communal” violence? This is an absurdist concept of morality, which has nothing to do with spiritual rules or pure legislation.
Not simply morally, this view of violence can be completely incompatible with the legislation. If in keeping with these liberal intellectuals, “communal” violence is objectively worse than different kinds of violence, and in the event that they push these views by the assistance of the mainstream press, then they’re making a parallel morality which could even justify violence in some instances. This is strictly how Left-wing Anarchists like Antifa have cropped up within the U.S. They consider themselves to be vigilantes, utilizing applicable power or violence so as to create destruction, which they consider helps them obtain their objectives. Just a number of days in the past, a Left-wing Antifa radical was convicted to 4 years in jail for burning a U.S. police station. This sort of Antifa vigilantism isn’t solely completely amoral but additionally opposite to the legislation.
The Scroll.in piece can be hilarious in another methods. It locations enormous significance on the position of get together affiliation in Bengali society, however nearly flippantly dismisses caste and faith as having any impact. The article unironically argues that get together politics and political identification, which permeated by Bengali society in 1977, is extra essential to the Bengali individuals than their faith and caste which has been interwoven into their identification for over 1000 years. However, that’s an evaluation for one more day.
The Wire piece, then again, does meet the bottom potential expectation of at the very least nominally criticizing Mamata Banerjee, putting the blame for the violence and lawlessness at her ft. However, this op-ed does so while giving overt reward to the three-time CM, calling her a “formidable fighter”, who has simply “defeated the politics of hate”, on the similar time when TMC cadres are attacking and murdering BJP, CPI(M), and Congress employees.
This white-washing of political violence in Bengal by the liberal press doesn’t cease right here. On Tuesday, the much-championed liberal community NDTV platformed Professor Ananya Chakraborty, as a “Political Analyst”, presumably somebody who is meant to be goal and non-biased. That was sadly not the case, because the Professor bizarrely claimed that political violence in Bengal has “never happened before”, a declare which is clearly unfaithful.
#TrendingToevening | “Why would a party which has just got a landslide victory, create unrest in their own state? It doesn’t make sense. This has never happened before”: Professor Ananya Chakraborty, Political Analyst, on post-poll violence in West Bengal#WestBengalElections2021 pic.twitter.com/rHn7JhXh1E— NDTV (@ndtv) May 4, 2021
The fact is, neither the mainstream media nor the mental class look after the Bengali individuals. The mainstream press and the mental class are ideological brethren who care extra about sure sorts of violence than others. To these ideological drones, the lifetime of a Dalit man attacked by a Muslim mob may have far much less worth than a Dalit particular person attacked by an upper-caste Hindu mob.
Is it a shock that while the Indian media, particularly the Liberal media, has a big part of Bengali illustration, the biggest anti-Dalit pogrom within the historical past of India, carried out by the Communist authorities of Jyoti Basu, has largely been forgotten? These crusaders for Dalits and different marginalized teams can’t even recall the Marichjhapi bloodbath as a result of it was dedicated by a godless, secular, communist regime, not by the “forces of Hindutva”. Was the Marichjhapi bloodbath in some way higher, as a result of it was not “communal” violence, simply “communist” violence? Maybe we’d like one other Scroll article to clear this up.