Equating being a good person with being one who never rejects other people, no matter how damaging the relationship, is an impossible standard.
It would be natural if it, and other such bodies, now hope that Mr Modi will promote their values (broadly equating being an Indian with being a Hindu).
An intellectual and political bruiser, he had a gift for humour, most famously equating being attacked by his Conservative opposite number and friend Sir Geoffrey Howe to being "savaged by a dead sheep".
His millennial mindset – "never read the comments" is trotted out as a given – and his repeatedly equating being 29 with being old enough to know better made me wonder how the show would strike someone older than, say, 35 – but the crowd present didn't give me the opportunity to find out.
He is equating being gay with being impure, unholy, in need for repentance and forgiveness.
Equating being called antivaxx with a dehumanizing slur that is associated with not just decades but centuries of oppression, enslavement, abuse & death is the most tone deaf, arrogant thing you could do.
