A school teacher in India has subjected a seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom, asking his classmates to slap him and asking for him to be evicted due to his religion, a video now viral on social media has revealed.

The video, which surfaced on Friday, showed Trapta Tyagi, the teacher at the school in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, making Islamophobic remarks in addition to encouraging other students to slap him harder.

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    2 years ago

    One might come to the conclusion that all of India is just a comically evil racist, classist, sexist and a lot of other bad -ists society while reading news about it.

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        2 years ago

        Are you a brahmin or why would you describe talking to someone from a lower caste as ‘not great’?

        Just kidding.

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          2 years ago

          I guess they are saying that if you speak to a person of lower caste, especially of dark skin you will understand their struggle. (But I am a naive person so my explanation might be hopelessly optimistic about people)

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      2 years ago

      There’s also the 2nd level of hell that is being born in the right sub-caste in a specific caste.

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      Going out on a limb here to guess that “Hank” has never been to India?

      There’s a whole lot of crazy bad but also an incredible amount of absurdly beautiful. I think unfortunately the worldview in India accepts both equally and generally believes, in the words of Bruce Hornsby or Tupac, that’s just the way it is.

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      I imagine most stories of people helping old windows, adopting children, and being best friends with another race don’t make the international news.

      Man bites dog.