I didn’t see any reference to the Ahmedabad crowd being called uneducated or there being an issue with the religious chants from him though which is why I said you were stretching a bit. I find the whole “knowledgeable Chennai crowd” shtick incredibly grating from my perspective as a native since we have our fair share of idiots here and I was facepalming when Doull made a reference to that in today’s game.
There is a difference between those two chants beyond the mere swapping of godly figures given the intent behind them. It’s classic weaponising of a fairly innocuous cultural thing to mean something more in a wider context, I’m pretty sure you’d be aware of it given the American right wing culture’s numerous attempts at it including them turning Christmas and New Year greetings into a political thing.
They were also showing Say and his daddy numerous times on live TV being in the crowd. The stadium is named after an active political figure. There was a special programme before the game which wasn’t even done for the opening fixture. Some of the audience reactions did not feel natural either. It was designed as political showpiece alongside being a sporting event, I’m not sure why you would dispute that when it’s an open secret here. I’d rather not resort to a lower level from others to justify poor behaviour either but that’s just me. At the end of the day though what’s happened has happened and I don’t think anybody has real issues after it, it’s just funny that Gambhir is playing both sides here for some reason.
I don’t know what ‘WOKE’ means either so I suppose we could end this discussion here?
