Hindu supremacists wield state power, unlike marginalized Western white supremacists.
Evidence
Again, for Modi and his swelling following of Hindu nationalists, Indian identity is fundamentally a matter of “blood and soil.” A familiar phrase to the lips of white supremacists in Europe and the United States, and in India, Hindu supremacists who view India—despite its unrivaled religious diversity—as the exclusive homeland of Hindus. … But instead of carrying tiki torches through college campuses like white supremacists in the United States, Hindu supremacists hold federal power in India. And, with that power firmly in their grasp, they are exacting their vision through the might of state policy and mobs of private extremists, forming a violent dialectic that punishes Muslims at every turn and actively seeks to push them out of the country by way of political and legal dictates and mobs given license by both to accost Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 467
Categorization
- XREF: Directly the reader’s guiding lens: states using privation and fear of covetousness, mobs.