Anyone who has seen how, even after thousands of years of oppression, and indeed after (and despite) Periyar and Ambedkar too, the majority of Dalits keep calling themselves Hindus, how women keep being the keepers (and even enforcers) of religious and traditional values in a ridiculously (and openly) patriarchal and misogynistic society like ours, and minorities keep trying to diffuse their identities and cultures, conversations, cuisines, costumes, and even colours into the majority (or at least the majority-mandated) identity, all of who exhibit such behaviour with the hope that their supplication and surrender would be seen as a sign, a gesture, a demonstration of their benignancy and harmlessness, that they would have proven that they do not wish to usurp the positions of the oppressors and only wish for equality (of sorts really, if you don’t mind, with your kind permission, and so on), enough at least to earn them the trust, respect, and maybe even some sort of patronising love from the privileged which they hope will be manifested into some sort of fair and just treatment from their self-appointed benefactors, all of which seems not just weird, but downright stupid to any impartial third party observer (for that is not how justice works), should not be shocked that the unemployed, the underpaid, the oppressed, the persecuted, the poor, the dispossessed, the have-nots, the powerless, and the under- (and un-) privileged keep voting for Modi despite clear evidence that they are, if anything, actively enabling their own oppression.
As you can see, we are possibly the largest case of collective Stockholm Syndrome ever.
