■今日の動画：PBS News Weekend April 20, 2024

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[06:15] Yeah, so in the past, there was an election in 2014 and another one in 2019. At various points, the company has pushed back pretty aggressively. And when the company has not pushed back aggressively, the local political leadership has. At one point in 2019, the governor of Tennessee came and addressed the workers on the factory floor and essentially told them why unionizing would be a mistake. Other politicians in the state told them that they could threaten the ability of the plant to grow in the future and receive state subsidies. This time, the climate was a lot more subdued. The company was pretty tame, really more or less stood down and let the workers make the decision.

[** to stand down = (in this context) to refrain from active involvement, or cease aggressive behavior ]

[12:47] The economy shows great signs of improving at the macro level, but at the individual level, especially among the less skilled population and the rural population, job distress remains high.

[** job distress = hardship or insecurity related to employment, such as high unemployment rates or job instability ]

[16:52] How troubling or how worrying is the religious violence we've seen in India lately?
Tremendously concerning. India's great contribution to democracy over the last 70 years has been a model of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious country that manages to still have peaceful elections on a regular basis. And so, any encroachment of religious tension and religious violence into that public domain is very sad, but also makes you worry as to what the future might hold. There has been a rising majoritarianism within the Indian population that has now really been manifested by the BJP, the ruling party. So there are open appeals on the grounds of religion. Prime Minister Modi inaugurated a massive temple in the city of Ayodhya in February to great fanfare, but one that really saw a political figure crossing a line into religious authority in a way that we haven't seen before. There is rising attacks on Muslim minorities and other minorities, Christian minorities in India. There is a reason to be worried about rising violence and increased impunity on the part of religious vigilantes who really act quite, you know, boldly to attack anyone that they don't see as conforming to their vision of what India is. A world in which 200 million Muslims and another 50 million religious minorities are worried that, at any given moment, they might be attacked without any protection of the state machinery of law and order, the judicial system, is one in which those citizens become second-class citizens in their own country. That is not what we imagine for a functioning democracy.

[** majoritarianism = A form of democracy in which decisions are made by a simple majority;
a political approach where decisions and policies are primarily determined by the will of the majority, potentially neglecting the rights and interests of minorities. //
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majoritarianism ]

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