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They should be reminded that le epic alpha male marble statues were, in reality, super colorful and gay (in the best way possible)

They don't need to be set up at the top. They already are. Some of them will call themselves "middle class", but that just doesn't exist. In India, anyone earning living above Rs. 25k a month is already in the top 1℅. Their only point of comparison or aspiration is the billionaires themselves, so, bootlicking is just as common here.

Just like with white supremacists, they are at the top of the social hierarchy already, but also have a victim complex with them being supposedly "threatened" by the minorities. In the US it's DEI and Critical Race Theory that fascists are against, in India it's the caste-based reservation system (affirmative action for the oppressed castes and tribes) and whatever small tidbits that are done for women in the name of the government being feminist (but barely) and progressive (like free public buses for women in some cities).

I don't know who to attribute the quote to but it's just the classic "resistance feels like oppression for those who've been long in the oppressor's shoes".

Edit: Also, the caste system doesn't need to be reimplemented. It never went away. Again I'm drawing the comparison to western politics in case this is someone from the west that's trying to understand. Slavery was abolished doesn't mean that there aren't other ways to practice forced labour and keeping people at the bottom of the hierarchy, right? It's quite similar here too. There are laws that say untouchability is not supposed to be practiced, but people still use different utensils to serve water for the domestic workers for example. Manual scavenging (the labour of mostly Dalit men cleaning sewers with nil protective equipment) is banned. But it still happens. Every week we see news that a few more people died from the toxic fumes or complications after.

I think there's a human tendency to believe whatever we're doing is important and morally good, and this creates a huge messy gray area between the hypothetical pure grifter and the true believer. If you or I took up crypto scamming as a vocation, we'd probably justify it to ourselves with a Robin Hood narrative, but believing that cryptocurrency is the correct and just future would serve the same purpose. An Indian guy promoting western fascism because it pays the bills will come up with a reason this is a good idea, but his peers may come up with different ones, and there's no guarantee of any ideological consistency between them, because these are just a pool of people who found ways to justify this particular bad idea to themselves.

They have been colonized by white people to the extent that some of the brainworms have taken root. Plus, we might make them white if they help us against China soon

But the actual ideological "true believers" make my brain hurt.

It reminds me of the Balt countries or like fascist Ukrainians or Croatians during WWII. "You aren't on the team, bro" energy.

you answered your own question, most people are cattle
no further explanation is necessary

Hard to tell which one this guy is from the article. My headcannon regarding your question is just a combination of confirmation bias and delusion. The facsim will align just enough with someone’s “conservative values” so when they see “fash hates X group” they can say “well I’m X but they hate the ones who are Y and honestly i don’t like those guys either. Surely they can tell the difference and are interested in doing so”