In India, alongside the prestigious globally-recognised universities that produce well educated graduates every year, a handful of brain washed graduates, regardless of age, are manufactured through Whatsap Universities every day. The dichotomy of both lies in their very existence. One is publically acclaimed, while the other is an underground third rate business. Though the former might look like an unorganized propoganda-driven sector from the outside, it is not. It's just as organized as its counterpart.
The WU (Whtsap universities) are owned and run by various communities( it could be those with religious foundations, a political alliance or other agendas) with the help of their hyper active IT cells comprising youngsters who work 24x7 to propogate their agendas. However, it's not them who decide what to propogate and what not to. These communities mostly follow a hierarchical structure. The leaders on the top provide their subordinates with informations which is further passed on to their secret IT cells, and later to the group admins who spread the messages to their whatsap group members. The messages however will be in the form of memes or misleading statements that either target opposition parties or promote community accomplishments. Though this might seem less problematic, the real issue arise when an extra ingredient is added to it; Hatred.
The main agenda of a whatsap group is to manipulate it's members within the circle. By doing so, one might have to point out some of the shortcomings of the party which seems unlikely. Hence, to avoid such practices, what they do is, they start blaming their counterparts for their shortcomings through which they conceal the real issue and deviate their members's attention elsewhere. Here's where hatred gets it's turn. They wrap the events in a communal angle or victimize their oppositions as if they are the root cause of all their problems. By doing so they get the sympathy from their own people which eventually helps them in further polarisations. This is how, hate filled memes and messages lay the basement to whatsap universities. Hence it is very difficult to talk someone out of something, to tell them the truth, nowadays because they are relentlessly brain washed almost on a daily basis
Recent events taught us that, we are living in an era in which our governments are censoring the virtues of secularism, integrity and fraternity in broad daylight light. With the whatsap universities working overwhelmingly alongside, the coming generations wouldn't have a clue about the wisdoms one must carry along. Instead their little brains will be filled with toxic to its brim. So before neglecting the influence such practices could have, think over it. As a matter of fact, it is high time we bring this frivolous looking practice to the eyes of the judiciary and urge them to ban these hate mongering whatsap groups with immediate effect
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