by Nadeem Sarwar
In May 2023, YouTuber Ranveer Allahabadia, better known by his internet moniker BeerBiceps, interviewed an infamous Hindu, right-leaning lawyer. BeerBiceps asked J. Sai Deepak to name three people who should leave India and never return.
Deepak mentioned two prominent intellectuals of India and a journalist.
Following the release of the episode, which garnered over 4.1 million views on YouTube, all three faced relentlessly online harassment and cyberbullying.
The nearly hour-and-a-half interview is rife with conspiracy theories, false claims, hate speech, and religious discrimination toward Muslims.
At one point during the interview, Deepak states that India will be safe only when there is a Hindu majority.
It’s a shocking, Hindu nationalist message from one of the country’s biggest content creators.
And because of it, BeerBiceps’ channel is now the go-to platform for officials in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to push its message.
In the past couple of months, Allahbadia interviewed numerous high-ranking officials of the Indian government including external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, Union Minister for Women & Child Development Smriti Irani, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and Minister of Consumer Affairs Piyush Goyal, with the videos garnering over 11.1 million views.
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