--- 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.
>
> I'm just fed up with idiots who defend Things Indian
> just because they're Indian. 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.
>
If I had to carry all assumptions you are making here, I'd break my
back.
