Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > I for one would definitely like to know what my history was, in its > purest form. >
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:17:23 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]> The best way to learn it, I submit, is to learn ALL or as much of it as possible. The other (bushy aka stupid) way of learning it - is to learn the history of ONLY one Uncle and that too - based on selective stories by selective priolcars. I leave that for the ones who claim to be "the only ones who are fair and balanced" and the ones who rush to 'zuz' based on their own faulty or non-existent intelligence. Mario observes: What Jose is trying to do here - in the context of his previous comments - is to counter-intuitively suggest once again that Saddam Hussein should have been allowed to continue to brutalize his people and menace his region and the world, because other nations, specifically the USA, had previously done something, without proper context and perspective, he selectively considers bad. Apparently, according to this peculiar theory of how history MUST be obfuscated, no atrocity can be discussed without discussing every other atrocity, or at least the ones Jose chooses to include. We saw this in action when Sapna Sahani asked her question about the Inquisition in Goa. Instead of addressing Ms. Sahani's question on the Inquisition we were asked to consider "...the Gory past of our entire subcontinent", specifically sati, caste, female infanticide and bride burnings. The precise conclusion was, "So I say to you: If today is the day to wash clothes, and the washing machines are not being used, Let us wash ALL the dirty laundry - in public." Jose wrote: I repeat my position (slowly - for those who might have difficulty understanding the lingua) a: Grown-up debates is for grown-ups. If it is too hot for you, stay in high school b: If you want to wash laundry AND make assumptions of laundry (in general) at the same time, wash ALL the laundry. Mario responds: Indeed. The slower and more often you repeat it the more absurd it sounds. Your response(s) to Ms. Sahani could hardly be described as "grown-up".
