I quite frequently see the 'we' moniker used in this forum in relation to a range of topics, but nobody finds any brahminical conspiracy nor attempts to impose idiosyncrasies in them. Be that as it may, the last two posts remind me of a comment about 'pre-emptive blogging' by a blogger:
1. We criticize X (where X represents a person, a government or a political movement). 2. One or more commenters responds, not with a direct defense of X, but with "What about Y (where Y represents a person, a government or a political movement for which we supposedly have more sympathy), who did something we consider just as bad, if not worse." 3. Despite protestations (of subject-changing, unfair moral equivalence, etc.), the commenters of paragraph 2 believe they have achieved stalemate, if not checkmate. Venugopalan and Ranjit made several wrong assumptions about me, but the most prominent ones among them are that I am a religious Hindu and that I am sympathetic to the 'Y', that is Hindutva. The insistence that everybody prove their secular credentials by bashing Hindutva whenever they criticize other equally pernicious identity politics from other parties, according to me is fundamentally no different from the RSS insistence that Muslims prove their patriotism. Identity politics is bad, whether practiced by Madani, RSS or Narayana Panicker. Best regards, Murali. On 8/5/07, Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Hindu believes what he likes to believe /what he wants to believe. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (The Wall)! - Che Guevara -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
