On Sunday 20 May 2007 6:29 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > It is not your charactierzation that is at issue here - though that > in itself is highly overdone and arguable. It is what you claim is > being done *to* Hindus. And it is *there* that I take issue with the > claims that you're making. I'm not sure just what rhetorical stunt > you're trying to pull here, but the most obvious explanation - > setting up a martyrdom argument - is not convincing to me.
Sorry - I don't understand what you are talking about wrt the "martyrdom" business. I am asking a simple question. Do you agree with the characterizations or not? You say they are highly overdone? I don't buy that. I have said it like it is and will retract and apologize if you can point out what is overdone about my characterization of Hindus. As far as I can tell they are *perfectly* accurate. Accuracy sounds like "overdone" to you and that is part of what I am trying to point out. Hindus ARE like that. It's just that Martha Nussbaum has been shielded from this fact and believes that "right wing Hindus" are somehow peculiar and different and do not want to live with others in peace and harmony. How are right wing RSS/BJP Hindus different from the description of "normal" Hindus that I have made? Martha Nussbaum gives no indication that she knows and that is a question that I would like to ask her. I am doing that in a separate email to her. As for your "rhetorical stunt" statement - it is a needless accusation which I would characterise as an ad hominem. Please don't do that. shiv
