On Monday 10 Dec 2007 6:51 am, Thaths wrote: > 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.
But Thaths that is not a reply to my question. Sidestepping, (or even goose stepping) does not alter the fact that group smearing or profiling is being done. One of the problems I note with Indian, particularly Hindu society is this characteristic. But when you combine group smearing and profiling by Hindus with a similar action by Muslims we get a deadly cocktail. Each side sees justice in the act of smearing an entire group and fails to recognise that they are doing the very typecasting that they are accusing the other side of doing. Blaming an entire group and banding a whole group together under one odious banner is fundamentally tribal law, which exists unofficially (but based on literature) among Hindus and as coded law among Muslims. This is less of a problem in the West because of the powerful implementation of laws and the separation of individual from group. But it is rampant in India and extends to the government, quite apart fro the attitudes being commonplace among the citizenry. shiv
