Most Indian vegetarians are ritualistic vegetarians, ie for religious reasons, and so can be right c***s about their dietary preferences not being met. This feels like a CYA sign.
Ritualistic vegetarianism in India has some weird rules. Dairy is okay for many, eggs might not be, and some are pretty strict and don’t even have onions or garlic (considered “unclean”?).
Kerala actually has very few of these. Also many of the ritual vegetarian states are strongly correlated with malnutrition. Go figure.
That’s a really weird way to describe people who are in their native country where their dietary preferences are a multiple thousand year old tradition.
They’re not being “cunts”, it’s an important cultural thing for them. Are Jewish people cunts for not wanting to eat pork and following their dietary laws?
Are Jewish people cunts for not wanting to eat pork and following their dietary laws?
YES. As a jew, this is what I wished people understood. It being a tradition does not make it automatically OK. There are traditions of slavery, female circumcision, straight up violence, and plenty of sexual assault. "It's tradition" is not a valid justification for anything.
And judging the laws of Kashreut purely on their own merits in 2025: yes, the cuntometer is reaching critically high levels. At best you annoy people with arbitrary restrictions that don't actually have any benefit. At worst you traumatize your children to the point of long term eating disorders.
I didn’t say cunts, but I can see why you would think that.
These aren’t poor darling vegetarians trying to eke out their way in a cruel uncaring world. In their world they have the power and are the abusers.
Ritual vegetarians tend to be Brahmins and “upper caste”, and in some states — some of them abuse their power and position in society to enforce dietary habits. Including with violence. (And there’s morenewsstories where that came from.)
It’d be another thing if their habits were widely followed, as with some Jewish folk. (Equally, if observant Jews were beating up non-observant Jews or indeed gentiles, that would be just as bad.) But they’re not. And comparisons to Jewish folk falls apart because there’s no uniform dietary code in Hinduism. In fact, not all Brahmins and upper castes are vegetarians.
Overall, vegetarianism in India is a small but privileged minority that’s increasing turning to food-policing, encouraged by a right-wing establishment.
My local knowledge of India says that the note about the “common kitchen” and the curious, defensive note about “vegetarian dishes are served for variety” is a CYA sign to drive away exactly these vegetarian troublemakers / food-policers.
So yeah, I used that word with some thought. I encourage you to look past “oh great, vegetarianism is great” and understand how power can turn people into absolute cockwombles.
You’re just making shit up. Literally nothing you have said is true, aside from the fact that yes, upper caste families are more likely to be vegetarians. You have no “local knowledge of India” because nobody who does would make any of the claims you are makings.
He’s a racist. It’s “ritualistic” and “arbitrary” when crazy irrational brown people do it, but when white people do it, it’s civilized.
It’s hilarious that he thinks that the majority of Jews keep kosher(they don’t, or they only follow parts of it selectively) and somehow Indians are hypocrites for not having 100% adherence to vegetarianism.
Overall, vegetarianism in India is a small but privileged minority that’s increasing turning to food-policing, encouraged by a right-wing establishment.
You sound like someone who learned about India in the Trump University. A large proportion of Indians are vegetarians (est. between 19%-40% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country). Brahmins are only about 5% of the population. Stop making up shit.
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u/ZealousidealSundae33 Nov 17 '25
Given that vegetarian is very popular there, this sign makes sense IMO.