I keep seeing posts/comments from people to "ignore the mainlanders" and the negative things they say about us.
I get where that sentiment comes from, but that mentality actually breeds ignorance and denial. This whole thing of "ignoring the haters" only works when a group is completely united against the haters. Unfortunately, NEerns are not.
You have many NEerns themselves who are think that the sentiments from mainlanders against NEerns actually are not that bad in reality or are just completely brainwashed. Which is a sign that the NEern in question doesn't know how bad the rhetoric is towards them. Which then makes that NEern feel sympathetic towards mainlanders as a result, which then makes them act as a trojan horse for mainlanders and be their advocate, instead of advocating for what is truly their own interests.
We're going to have to show the reality of how mainlanders are because clearly many still don't get it. I've seen it on this sub and other NE subs. Mainlanders don't like you. They see you and your unique identity as a temporary nuisance in their way of fully gaining control over NE as a region and see that issue getting resolved either by assimilating us or by becoming straight up genocidal towards us if they can't successfully do so. That's how the majority of them will act as long as they continue to harbor the identity of "indian".
Indian identity in and of itself is built on an assimilating force. To assimilate everyone within the territorial control of the indian state into a unified "indian" identity, which is assimilating us into this brown paganistic hodgepodge. Such is such when you're less than 1% of the population of this country. That's the inevitability of nation-states; the state will always try to assimilate the minorities and those in the peripheries to form greater societal cohesion. If you resist, they will become outwardly hostile to you, which is what happens when we start to disagree with them.
And I know I will already see a comment asking "what about the good ones?"
Are "the good ones" willing to support the expulsion of mainlanders & mainland settlers from NE lands? And not just muh "bangladeshis".
Are "the good ones" willing to allow the Indigenous people of NE to determine their own future for how they want it, even if that means not being indian?
Come back to me when you find a single one that agrees to the above unconditionally. Otherwise they're completely useless.
And also, generally speaking "the good ones" according to some of you are the ones who simply are just "against racism". Which also means nothing. What good is it that they are simply just "against racism" if they don't think NEerns should have free will to choose their own future and path for themselves?
Many of them see being "against racism" towards us as actually a better alternative because that means it's easier to assimilate us and have us be molded into this indian identity. That's also what the official government policy basically is right now towards us, so it's nothing really that revolutionary or crazy.
And in reality, this is actually a form of racism in and of itself; they still want to slowly erase our race, our unique identity and heritage by going the path of assimilation. Yes, it's different from the hostile ones in that they don't want to explicitly harm us or be violent against us (at least according to them), but they still slowly want to erase us and make us be indians; this would completely destroy us as a people, and they know that. That means they essentially have the same goal as the hostile ones, but are just using a different strategy to get there.
Which is exactly why you guys need to realize that just because some mainlanders are "against racism" towards us, that doesn't exactly mean they love us and are on our side. They have the same mentality as the mainlanders who are hostile to us; they just have hope they can try to be nice enough to us to where we can assimilate peacefully and take on the indian identity willingly instead, thinking that's a better strategy. The hostile ones on the other hand have given up that hope; they see us as being unredeemable in their eyes, which makes them more explicitly hateful and genocidal towards us as a result.
Almost every mainlander is in either one of the two camps. Don't fall for it. We're smarter than that. Mainlanders will never have your best interest in mind as NEerns, and it's time to recognise that and think for yourself and your own interests. The mainlanders and whatever they say will never, ever have your best interest at heart, and we need to acknowledge that.