I write this with incredible sadness & disappointment.

There’s a video circulating since 3 days calling for some of us (incl. journalists) to be hanged to death because we were mentioned as “accounts to follow” in Greta Thunberg’s toolkit supporting the farmer protests.

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The shitty & violent conspiracy video was taken down by YouTube but tweeted out by BJP leaders including Kapil Mishra.

The website @ThePrintIndia even legitimized the video since the journos mentioned are @ShekharGupta’s competitors.

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And yet, there’s barely even been a murmur condemning them. There’s barely anyone who’s even spoken about it.

This same pattern repeats every year. No one speaks up unless someone is framed or they’re killed.

We light candles for the dead but ignore the lead up to it.

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Whatever legal action has to be taken will be taken.

But it’s kinda sad to know when the govt hatches a conspiracy targeting people & its left to them alone to fight it out solo.

While BJP leaders promote that video, Opposition leaders haven’t said a word about it.

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We’ll face this & battle the threats to us eventually. It takes more than an IT cell & their fanatical cowardly political masters to scare us.

But as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr said “in the end, we’ll remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends”.

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PS: Here. There’s already sanghis calling for “public retribution in the streets” against us.

#NewIndia where you can get lynched only because someone recommended your account as being one that supports the farmer protests or for reporting about the protests. https://twitter.com/pcheppudira/status/1360550128428347396
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