wontcha reconsider this?

you are not welcome in this house. your comment stands, for posterity. as for you, see you later alligator

When I was told off on the Kaavya thread, slightly but still, I dealt with it and moved on. The question didn’t come up of getting rid of the post or the poster. Ah can’t be dealin’ with too much censorship.

I have no trouble accusing you, Jan Jani, of being neither brilliant nor clairvoyant, but rather a dimwitted hothead.

Amen!

1. For the record, Jan Jani, I was NOT accusing ANNA of being a hypocrite, and don’t for a second think that she is one. She might very well regard the two situations as different, which is entirely within the realm of reasonable possibility. Or alternatively, perhaps upon reflection and in dialogue with people in this discussion she might come to have a different view of one or the other situation, which would simply be a sign that she is thoughtful individual capable of listening and reflecting upon her positions, and learning from new situations. I was simply inviting her to elaborate upon where she was coming from, and while I intended to do so playfully, it obviously wasn’t stated in the best way because it was misinterpreted both by her and by you — although curiously, your misinterpretation has come after my clarification. I fully trust that she now understands what I intended. Whether or not she chooses to respond to the issue I was implicitly raising — now, later, never — is entirely her prerogative, and I don’t regard her as a hypocrite if she chooses not to. Life is short, and there are a lot of other discussions in this blog to pay attention to.

2. Also for the record, I have no trouble accusing you, Jan Jani, of being neither brilliant nor clairvoyant, but rather a dimwitted hothead.

i know this is in bad taste but i’d prefer to call it an IED — improvised editorial device!

peace

Siddhartha:you are not welcome in this house.

Dude Jan Jani, Seems like you stepped on a landmine!

nicely done dude. you’ve called anna arrogant and a hypocrite, informed me my head is up my ass, called the commenters here spineless, called comments that criticize you “enemy” and announced you are “dynamiting” them, insulted several of our valued regular commenters, and generally made a nuisance of yourself. you have no arguments, merely invective, and apparently some anger issues you might want to look into. you are not welcome in this house. your comment stands, for posterity. as for you, see you later alligator.

peace

Vivek

I was too timepressed to deliberate in my post and thus preempt your trite arguments, like the one below:

Guess what! While we are all part of this South Asian group, we are also individuals with our own opinions and sensibilities

I had meant to say most browsers ( other than regular commenters here ) would just glance at the original post and move on without discovering the diversity of comments in the thread that follows the post. The bloggers’ on this site I am afarid to say usually don’t show much diversity of opinion on such issues.

Offense is often taken when it was not intended.

ANNA

Just because your hypocricy and arrogance get such a freepass from the mostly spineless commenters, you have indeed begun to believe your posts and comments to be foolproof.

I note with much interest that you didn’t make this brilliant statement on either Abhi’s or Manish’s posts on THE SAME INCIDENT, in which they take the SAME position that I did.

Manish is no longer with SM. If Abhi had already said what you mostly wanted to, then why write a redundant post? That’s because Abhi had not taken the SAME position as you did later:

Abhi Please donÂ’t start an email or letter writing campaign . This may have just been a very poorly executed joke on BidenÂ’s part.

And this is what you demanded ( implicitly ):

I keep waiting to hear a “sorry”, “my apologies”, “oops” or even a “dude…my bad”, but he’s got nothing useful like that for us, which is too bad

Not too long ago you continued to cling to shameless Kaavya’s defense even though one damning evidence after the other kept piling up against her. But you couldn’t give the benefit of the doubt to a man who has consistently been friendly to Indians? With your self declared interests in Congressional politics you ought to know at least half of what Ash58 knows about Biden. I know someone before me pointed out your Kaavya-Biden hypocricy but the charge is worth pursuing because you so callously ran away from it the first time:

Hmmmm…. What happened to compassionate, benefit-of-the-doubt-giving Akka-ANNA? Wow…you really got me. I’m such a hypocrite. I’ll go cry now.

How do you explain the following?

May some nice desi 7-11 worker get down on her knees and give him a big free slurpee. Why not “his knees”?

Does that remark offend you only as long as it’s a ‘she’?

That, Jan Jani, makes you a JERK

I am sure you have several skeletons in your blogboard to qualify you as a superjerk, but I’ll allow others to make that judgment.

Siddhartha:

Where do I even begin with you man. If anyone ever argues that ” Minority Head Up His/Her Victim Ass ” is a myth, he or she should first read the following golden words excerpted from your soccer post: Last year, severe riots and disturbances in the squalid working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities reminded France and the world that the daily lives of people of color in France are fraught with obstacles and discrimination; not that the complacent political class and intellectual elite seem much interested in doing anything about it.

or this nugget: the underlying problem is that the political establishment is overwhelmingly white

and the piece de resistance was his post about the Whitey visiting a Temple in Delhi. A text book case of taking offense where none was intended. I can’t find it. If someone does, please link it.

Tashie

(If only more people, cough Jan Jani cough could do the same) Just speak for your (apologist) self.

AK

Anyone who can definitively make sense of what Biden was trying to say is indeed either brilliant or clairvoyant.

A big thank you!

Thanks for having the patience to read my (and similar ones)comment carefully and make sense of it.

Quaker 09 Thanks for explaining Senator Biden’s possible motivation. I still think that he is a windbag – albeit a non-malicious one. I don’t base my opinion only on his silly quip about Indians and Dunkin’ Donuts.

I believe that anyone who ventures to characterize a large, diverse group of people by assigning narrow attributes (good, bad or indifferent) to its members, does so at his/her own peril. The result is often a demeaning and infantilizing one for the group and an embarrassing “foot in the mouth” for the speaker. Unless people explicitly define themselves as in the case of political or religious groups, we should not automatically presume anything about their interests, capabilities or their philosophies. Having seen this stereotyping game from both the negative and positive ends of the spectrum, I am convinced of its perniciousness. I would invite anyone who cares to look at yet another blog, to read my commentary on this matter which I posted a few months ago where I was actually responding to a Jewish co-blogger who was happy about positive Jewish stereotypes.