--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Here ya go. I agree with your point, but I also enjoy calling > > > > > Richard Gere a dick. I'm pretty sure this wont help his cause. > > > > > I don't think it would be pandering to lighten up on the "old > > > > > letch" vibe a bit. It really wasn't fair to the chick. > > > > > > > > What I saw (couldn't hear any sound in this noisy > > > > cafe if there was sound) was "the chick" dragging > > > > an obviously reluctant Gere up on stage > > > > > > I saw no reluctance on Gere's part in that clip. > > > > > > > and not > > > > letting him go, all to help her "career" (she won > > > > a silly TV talent contest, ferchrissakes) and him > > > > playing along, and then giving her "career" a bit > > > > more of a boost than she expected. She'll ride this > > > > tempest in a pisspot all the way to the Bank Of > > > > Bollywood. > > > > > > If it does give her career a boost rather than ruin > > > it, I guess the Indians can't be that prudish, eh? > > > > > > Oh, wait, no, it's racism, not prudishness: > > > > > > > Face it -- this furor is because of Hindu racism, > > > > pure and simple. They didn't like seeing a white > > > > guy kissing one of their own, especially one that > > > > they jack off to photos of every night before get- > > > > ting up the next morning and pretending to be pure > > > > little Brahmins. :-) > > > > > > Right, it's *Hindus* who are racist. > > > > There are Hells Angels in Europe, so perhaps Barry could start > > a chapter of the KKK in France. Then all of the 'colored folk' > > could bend over and kiss his lily white ass. > > "I am just observing what I see. If you find what > I said insulting, I am at a loss for words." > - Jim Flanegin, yesterday > > Do some reading, people...this non-event is being > written up EVEN IN INDIA as the work of Hindu > Supremicist groups, and the word "racism" as a > reason for all this hubbub comes up in those > accounts rather often. > > Not all Indians are this stupid and this elitist > and this bigoted, but it appears that those who > chose to make a big deal of this *are*. And those > who defend their actions are, in my opinion, in > agreement with their elitist tendencies and, if > karma worked the way it should, would probably end > up sharing the same shit sandwich in hell with them.
Was anybody here defending those making the fuss? Or was it a matter of criticizing Gere for not having realized that what he did was likely to start a fuss? As well as noticing that some of the comments criticizing the fuss-makers were so broad and unpleasant as to themselves have a distinctly racist tinge? > I'm just fed up with idiots who defend Things Indian > just because they're Indian. Again: Was anyone here doing that? I've met and worked with > and for a fairly large number of upper-caste Hindus > in my life, and although I have met a few nice > individuals among them, as a group i would have > to class them as far more racist and elitist than > rabid White Supremicists I've met in the U.S. > > My point is that there are idiots everywhere. In this > case, in India. And, it would seem, on FFL. >
