--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > GL responds to Cornel: > Yes Cornel, Mario and others, Goans like everyone > else are entitled to their own opinions. But they > are not entitled to their own facts. Some of these > may be based on fictional novels on Goa written by > third parties, that are now given a fake stamp of > legitimacy. > > As some of you may well know, DISTORTING the facts > on purpose is a polite way of stating it is a LIE. > And when this is done in an academic context, it is > called a scientific FRAUD. > > I'm glad you've elected to move your discussion on > Goa's caste discriminations to another, perhaps less > educated forum.
Mario responds: Gilbert In your response to Cornel you seem to be confusing personal insults, invective and snide remarks about other posters with rational debate. As far as I can tell, you have not made a positive or coherent contribution to this discussion for quite awhile now, and the post I am responding to is a good example. You are constantly claiming distortions by others while blythely distorting facts yourself, as when you refer to Fr. Jerome and his role in India's Constituent Assembly, which I have clarified in detail in another post, for the umpteenth time, and Cornel has as well. I don't know if you are doing this on purpose or not. If you are, then we may have to judge you by your own definitions. You correctly say that people are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. So as to get back to whatever point you are trying to make and away from insults and invective, why don't YOU list the facts as you know them, rather than demanding facts from others and then classifying them as distortions, lies and frauds? The bottom line is that if you do not believe that caste exists among Catholic Goans, you are entitled to this erroneous opinion and there is nothing more to discuss.
