"Rajan P. Parrikar" wrote: > I feel no urge at all to be defensive when talking about or inquiring after a person's caste. All this cringing anytime "caste" is mentioned is more about political correctness gone haywire. > CORNEL DACOSTA cornel at btinternet.com Wed Jan 30 04:50:02 PST 2008 > However, I do take strong exception to your view that caste discussion on Goanet is about "political correctness gone haywire." I say this because I am totally opposed to any form of racism that emanates from caste, semitism or any other derived ideology and to be found in lots of places besides India, including America, the UK/Europe and in recent active form in places like Rwanda, Bosnia etc. > I understand that you lived in the USA previously and therefore assume that you would have been opposed to white racism there. Why then do you not feel the same about brown on brown racism implicit in caste and casteism? Or for that matter, black on black racism as in several parts of Africa? I'm afraid I find your expressed stance rather strange and feel the need to assert that anti-casteism has a long historical dimension including anti-casteism among the Catholic Goans and does not rely on "political correctness" of more recent vintage. On this kind of stance, I support Selma strongly. > Mario adds: > Perusing Goanet for posts I missed while pre-occupied with other priorities I found this interesting exchange, including Rajan Parrikar's curious comments suggesting that objections to caste are "political correctness gone haywire". > Political correctness gone haywire? Whoa! Is that what it is? Does this mean that Rajan Parrikar is supportive of and sympathetic to the abomination of caste? > I was unable to find any answer from Rajan to the trenchant questions raised by Cornel. >
