Whatsapp and lynchings!

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Should whatsapp be held accountable for lynchings?

Over the last three months the nation has witnessed lynching of many individuals, all who have been wrongly projected as a child-lifters to the people over there. In all these cases it was Whatsapp-a social messaging app which acted as a medium in circulating this bogus and fallacious news around the village. But is it right to hold whatsapp accountable for the naivety of people? No!

Consider the Assam lynching case- A man after getting to know that his fiend is visiting a village nearby, served up his intention of killing the person by just sending an image of that person with a tag of Child lifter, to a member of that village. Soon the message proliferated across the village and suddenly everyone was aware about the person. So, when that person entered the village, the people immediately pounced on him and killed without giving a sense of thought or chance for that person to present his case.

What do you observe in this case? You are wrong if you believe that whatsapp is complicit in that person’s death. What actually happened is that stupidity prevailed over commom sense. The weakness of people had been cleverly exploited. There wouldn’t have been a lynching taken place, had if the people stopped for a second and contemplated on the credibility of source. Blaming it on whatsapp is only to shift the blame from the people who were devoid of nous and acted irrationally. Do you think the act would not have taken place, had if there is no whatsapp? I highly doubt that because the perpetrator might have chosen the conventional way of spreading through the word of mouth or some other way and the same fate would have been received by the lynched person.

Let me take you into another example of lynching where in a woman got beaten up, mistakenly, when she was giving chocolates to the children who helped her by giving directions to her destination. Is it wrong to show love to these children? This clearly explains the ignorant and ill-mannered behaviour of the people. As the Chief justice of Supreme court, Deepak Misra rightly said “People have lost tolerance and affection towards one another”, which had always been the hall mark of our Indian society.

Its time to stop blaming whatsapp for all of this and work on ways to educate the people and to inculcate some common sense to them.


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