On Dec 9, 2007 4:51 PM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 09 Dec 2007 10:06 pm, Thaths wrote:
> > It is when one gooseteps in khakhi shorts down
> > the road, when one claims that the Hindu civilization is 10,000 years
> > old, when one thumps on Herr Hegdewar's books and goes around burning
> > Christian families, etc., one gets identified as right wing. There are
> > millions of people who identify themselves as Hindus that do not do
> > any of the things I just mentioned that identify them as right wing.
> Thaths group guilt and group responsibility get smeared around so easily.
>
> My statement was in response to the identification of "BJP/RSS right wing
> kooks" editing Wikipedia. Could I safely assume that those "BJP/RSS right
> wing kooks" who are editing wikipedia are all fall into the category of
> people who "claims that the Hindu civilization is 10,000 years old, when one
> thumps on Herr Hegdewar's books and goes around burning Christian families,
> etc., "?
Interesting you should opt out of re-using the "gooseteps (sic) in
khaki shorts" bit. I suspect a vaster majority of right wing kooks do
that than any of the other example characteristics I stated.
Thaths
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