--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That's true. I do believe that religious fundamentalism and
> bigotry (of all shades, and multiple religions) sometimes
> influences us in more ways than we are even aware of. This
> is the reason why I raised the point of skin-deep
> secularisation and polarisations happening in today's
> society :-)
>
Frederick is now trying to find new post-hoc rationalizations for his
neologisms, and invent new meanings for them. It is a convenient excuse to call
anybody a bigot, a Hindutva sympathizer, a defender of violence against
Christians or some other such epithet. Ironically, this is a marriage between
cultural relativism and self-righteousness, where slandering people is no
different from praising them. There is no right and wrong, but secretly he
believes he is right. Everybody is a bigot, so he is justified in using that
epithet against those who disagree with him. Facts don't matter. It is all
about feelings and hunches.
The use of the word polarization best illustrates this tricky political
gimmick. It allows him to say that he too is polarized, but hide his
self-righteous belief that he is polarized towards the good side.
Cheers,
Santosh
