--- On Tue, 19/5/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009, 10:14 AM
> On Monday 18 May 2009 7:01:05 pm [email protected]
> wrote:
> > In other words, some citizen wants to explain why
> murdering Muslims doesn't
> > really matter, against the greater good of the greater
> number, and other
> > citizens with a narrow mind call him or her a
> Hindutvabadi and shut off a
> > proper reasoned argument on why and under what
> circumstances murdering
> > Muslims should be permitted.
>
> IG I have already sent a verbose response to another post
> of yours but this
> one is too tempting.
>
> In the original post that defended Modi's actions I do not
> recall Bharat
> Shetty describing himself as either "Hindu", or "Hindutva"
> or
> even "Hindutvabadi" (Hindutva-baddie" :D )
>
> If you would like to retrace the sequence of events, Bharat
> Shetty defended
> Modi, but, as I stated did not identify himself as either
> "Hindu",
> or "Hindutva" or even "Hindutvabadi"
>
> That "identification" was made by SRS as "playing the
> Hindutva card" and that
> identification is being endorsed by you. Why not simply say
> that Bharat
> Shetty is defending Modi the murderer? Why pull all
> supporters of Hindutva
> into this?
>
> What you are doing in effect is to smear all people who
> represent Hindutva and
> being representative of a murderer.
>
> You need to ask yourself if you believe this to be true. No
> harm if you do
> believe it to be true. It is a viewpoint. But recall that
> when all
> Hindutvadis can be dubbed as apologists or representatives
> of murderers, the
> same argument can be conveniently applied to other people
> in other contexts
> to reach equally spurious conclusions.
>
> Why not allow all viewpoints to be aired?
>
> shiv
Shiv,
I have the following situation:
The bus has broken down and will not proceed further;
I will lose a large sum of money if I do not make it to my next stop;
that will not be possible until an alternative vehicle is encountered; there
are none for hire;
the moment such a miracle happens, there will be the proverbial scramble for
seats, and although I am assured of a seat due to the respect given to age and
to spectacled age at that, I will have to move my arse.
This could be the theme of an ironic book. I can think of the title and the
contents already - Answering Shiv.
Please bear with me as I try to remain alive in choking dust, keep an eye on my
relatively expensive 'luggage', and remain prepared to leap off to the good
seat on the expected Trekker; my reply may be oddly truncated.
I wish to reply your two posts separately.
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