Ep 216: Being Muslim in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Preference Cascade
The sociologist timur kuran wrote a book in 19 99 called a, i think, public lies and private truths. He coined this phrase called preference falsification. And one of the illustrations he gave was the soviet union where what happened was that everybody hated the state, but nobody could say it because a neighbor could you now tell on them. But to day, if you look at our politics, er, er, you don't need dog whistles any more. Er, you know, people will openly say things which they could only have alluded to in the past. The overall outcome can be this sort of cloistering of different communities in different areas,. Which exasperates
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