On Monday 19 Apr 2010 10:56:54 pm Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > Yippee, I'm moving up in the world.
ams - with respect may I point out that it was you who first raised a strawman about "lack of Hindu violence" on this thread which you tried to knock down subsequently. I believe that what I am going to say is relevant to the topic of "unregistening from Hinduism" There is a tendency among some people who fear being identified as Hindu to utilise what I can only describe as "pre-emptive secularism" in order to distance themselves pre-emptively and prophylactically from any Hindu who might speak up in defence of Hinduism. Pre emptive secularism is a uniquely Hindu trait. It only comes out of people who are sensitive and defensive about being associated with Hindus while being afraid of being mistaken for one of them. Long before anyone even squeaked a word in support of anything Hindu in nature you found the need to put up a strawman and knock it down to make your views known publicly. This is IMO one way of unresgistering from Hinduism but I believe it fails because it betrays a deep sense of guilt that one may actually belong with Hindus and that one might be accused of being Hindu. And that called for a pre emptive volley to show that you are not "one of them". You are pre-empting anyone who might say something in defence of Hindus wih a warning shot to tell them of what's coming. At a time and place where that was not even necessary.. The tactic is somewhat like the child who says "I did not do it" to his mother even before she realises that a window has been broken. In other words, a Freudian slip. shiv
