According to Gilbert, Mario Goveia wrote: > a "system" of institutional discrimination to prove something about yourself at the expense of someone else. > Sun Dec 2 10:08:29 PST 2007 >From Gilbert Lawrence gilbertlaw at adelphia.net > After "being beaten" by Mario, he pays me a great compliment by adopting my definition of casteism .... as his own. > Mario responds: > Gilbert, > I see you are still digging. Isn't the hole deep enough yet? :-)) > Here was my un-truncated sentence, "Shame on you if you need a "system" of institutional discrimination to prove something about yourself at the expense of someone else." > I see you have now re-defined "Shame on you" to be a compliment:-)) > To begin with, my appeal, and that of a very few others on Goanet, is hardly "institutional" right now, nor is it universally accepted either. Who knows what the "silent majority" on Goanet think? > For me to adopt your upside-down definition would mean that I was suggesting ending the abomination of caste at the "expense" of the caste-supremacists. > According to this rationale, South Africa abolished apartheid at the "expense" of the white-supremacists. The US adopted full civil rights for all at the "expense" of white Americans, and on and on. > However, when even YOU seem to have given up the ghost and are finally calling for ACTION - which here means to quit using caste in your own decisionmaking -then I see this as a small step forward. It may be too much to expect you to join the movement to exhort others to do the same. > However, you also took a small step backward by classifying the responses to Basilio's apologetic comments as "cheap shots", which makes me wonder whether you have really turned the corner. > Only time - and your own ACTIONS - will tell. >
