unsubscribe On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:25 PM, ss wrote:
> 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 >
