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I disagree. Like other aspects of human life, religion too should have
its role on Goanet (though personally I don't subscribe to it). As a
journalist, it makes no sense to say we should keep off discussions
which a (signficant, I guess) section sees as relevant to them.
It's not religion that I'm worried about. It's what we in India call
"communalism" (hate-speech, masquerading as religiosity or loyalty to
a religion ... actually having nothing to do with it).
If we don't want relgion discussions on Goanet, why should we also not
ban recipes (too female-oriented), race (offensive to some), caste
(offensive to 'lower' castes and embarassing to 'higher' castes),
sports (only male-oriented), politics (too disgusting, specially in
its Goan avatar), environment (too depressing for most), and even Save
Goa (too many pre-election time hidden agendas).
If we accept all this, where would we stand? Goanet would not be able
to discuss Goa!
FN
On 15/12/06, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Roland is saying makes sense (the religious bit, not the political,
> if that were banned, what would be left to talk about :-). Not that
> posts on religion are necessarily non-secular, in the sense of being
> communal -- the recent posts on Jesus were pretty unexceptionable in
> that regard.
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