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Hi Cornel
Your anti-Catholic writings are seen on the subjects but not confined to: Caste
among Goan Catholics; Your atheistic leanings; Building of churches in Goa;
Goan "Catholic" Inquisition, Hitler's "Catholicism" etc. Sure, the small group
that consistently sided with you on these issues will now come to your defense.
If you think I am going to go through your verbatim transcripts of your past
posts, you are dreaming. I have better things to do. But here are my thoughts
to your recent writings.
Your statement, "I am anti-caste among Catholic Goans" is along the same vein
as your past writings on Goan caste. As stated in my last post, and by many
others in prior posts, "caste-Catholic" is an oxymoron. And your "Anti-caste
among Catholic" is a pleonasm (a redundant expression), yet a sneak attack
(diversionary, abusive and circumstantial) on Goan Catholics and the Church.
In your recent post on Hitler, you (rightly) soften your remarks on his faith.
Yet, you still state, "Hitler was a Catholic Fascist" (see below). For a
bright English academic in London, and in the modern (21st century) world, is
this right? Or to be correct, should it be, "Hitler was a fascist who happened
to be Catholic"? To those not familiar with this nuance, "Is Cornel a
Goan-Catholic English professor or is Cornel an English professor of
Goan-Catholic origin / background? This ties in with the questions Chip is
repeatedly asking of Santosh on another thread and he (another fellow traveler
of yours) has elected to repeatedly duck.
You both as individuals have outstanding credentials, and I am proud of you for
those achievements as Goans. Yet your writings, drawing the Church into the
above topics is nothing more than naked demagoguery. Those Goenkars not
familiar with the nuances of this term can read the following and make their
own judgement of my characterization of your writings and those of others.
Sure some may not agree with me, especially those who habitually use
demagoguery. Some use lies to demagogue and when their falsehood is exposed,
they call it "satire". Frankly even when the demagoguery is exposed, Santosh
refuse to apologize, though amazingly he accepts his statement as demagoguery.
There is hope.:=)). The master demagogue - Hitler - never admitted he was a
demagogue. Did he?:=))
I hope you and others take my comments in a positive spirit. Too many Goan
posts are borderline or blatant demagoguery. We use exceptional situations to
make blanket statements. As I have written in the past, there are exceptions
to every rule. Yet the exception does not make the rule. Many of us expect a
higher standard from seasoned and otherwise well-qualified and educated
posters.
Kind Regards, GL
Extracts From Wikipedia:
Demagogy refers to a strategy for obtaining and gaining power and prestige by
appealing to the popular prejudices, fears, and expectations of the public —
typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using
nationalistic or populist themes.
Demagogy does not require the use of lying and falsehoods. Skilled demagogues
often need use only special emphasis by which an uncritical listener will be
led to draw the desired conclusion himself, seeding a belief that is
self-reinforced rather than one based on fact or truth.
Demagogues make use of logical fallacies, though persuasion may require no use
of logic. While it may not rely heavily upon outright lies, the use of
half-truths, omissions, and distortions are what define demagogy — it is, in
essence, giving bad-faith arguments for the purpose of political gain."
------------ Cornel wrote on Hitler:
I had of course gone beyond your description. From the historical evidence--
his declared belief in God, Jesus and Catholicism is very clear even though we
can never truly know, as with anybody else, what exactly he believed within his
Catholic faith. I am however well satisfied that he was misguided in his faith,
just as Osama bin Laden is, with regard to his stated devotion to Islam.
While some Goanetters are happy to refer to Bin Laden as an Islamo Fascist, I
am in absolute agreement with Aristo that Hitler was a Catholic Fascist and in
good company with other WW2 Catholic Fascists like Franco (helped greatly by
Hitler in the Spanish Civil War), and Mussolini.
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