Pompous Baitability
IMO a better word than izzat is “pompously baitable”.
Many Indians feel the need to clap back at any perceived slight to their honour, without picking their battles or any sense of proportion, which makes them trivial to “bait”—and not only that, they are pompous about this baitability, calling any Indian who doesn’t behave like a dehati coalposter a “coon” and a “sepoy”.
The most consequential example of this was how easily Muslims psy-oped a good chunk of the Indian RW into becoming anti-semitic. All they did was:
- created a bunch of fake “Israeli” accounts shitting on Indians
- kept confidently asserting “Israelis literally hate Indians lololol” (in reality data shows Israelis have a higher favourability of India than any other country does; but that’s not even the point)
- repeatedly brought up isolated accidents like the UN peacekeeper killed in crossfire in Israel
Indians immediately felt obliged to clap back by saying “we hate Jews too!!!” or make memes showing an Indian Yes Chad saying “I hope you both die” to Jews and Muslims, and a bizarre image of Jews screaming “have mercy” as Paraśurāma kills them for some reason.
And now as a result the dumbest Indian RWs are a fertile audience for “26/11 was Israeli and RSS ki saazish” conspiracy theories literally straight out of Congress/Muslim league’s mouth. And the best part is nobody even gives you any “izzat” for this behaviour. You look just as pathetic as you are.
Compare this to Muslims responding to “why don’t you talk about Xinjiang?” Complete discipline and strategic silence, because they have a sense of proportion and know which battles to pick.