Comments on: Oppression All The Way Down http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mills http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-212157 mills Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:31:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-212157 <p>For once, I am so glad to find someone in this website who stands up for herself and the truth, and not follow the crowd like cows in a herd. Prema, keep up the good work of highlighting about child slavery in India. I personally know many sordid stories of Indian child exploitation, kids even young as 5 or 6. Persoanlly, I think writing about them here won't help much as you would only be branded as anti-India, racist, culturally insensitive, not brownie....and whatever terms some people will think of. I suggest you channel those postings in Human Rights and Amnesty Int'l sites. They will be more appreciated there (and hopefully, more productive).</p> <p>At the same time, I am sad and ashamed to know that a lot of Indians born and raised in the US could still be so biased and racist in their remarks. I have been reading SP for a few days, and I can't tell the no. of times I have come across words like "kala", "gora", "whities", "ghetto dwellers" while describing others, and at the same time highlight the "India Shining" "we earn lots", "We're educated" lines. I think some respect for people of other races (whether they acn hear you or not/whther they read your words or not) and a little humility will go a long way. After all, wealth and education is not synomymous to decency, just like it's not in this couple's and their children's case.</p> <p>Lastly, for those condoning Indian child slave labor with reasonings like "500 teenagers die in US every year at their work places", "US had slavery 150 years ago" are so lame. Those "500"/year (which is a staggering no) are of legal age to work. Teenagers, Ok, but 16 is okay to work and they are doing so out of their consent. They can leave anytime they don't want to, and NOTE: they are paid prevailing wages. And oh yes, the slavery in US "150 years" ago is so relevant, like you're admitting that India is 150 years behind US.</p> <p>Bottom line is love your country of origin, but don't let it become your sole identity that you have defend its wrongs.</p> For once, I am so glad to find someone in this website who stands up for herself and the truth, and not follow the crowd like cows in a herd. Prema, keep up the good work of highlighting about child slavery in India. I personally know many sordid stories of Indian child exploitation, kids even young as 5 or 6. Persoanlly, I think writing about them here won’t help much as you would only be branded as anti-India, racist, culturally insensitive, not brownie….and whatever terms some people will think of. I suggest you channel those postings in Human Rights and Amnesty Int’l sites. They will be more appreciated there (and hopefully, more productive).

At the same time, I am sad and ashamed to know that a lot of Indians born and raised in the US could still be so biased and racist in their remarks. I have been reading SP for a few days, and I can’t tell the no. of times I have come across words like “kala”, “gora”, “whities”, “ghetto dwellers” while describing others, and at the same time highlight the “India Shining” “we earn lots”, “We’re educated” lines. I think some respect for people of other races (whether they acn hear you or not/whther they read your words or not) and a little humility will go a long way. After all, wealth and education is not synomymous to decency, just like it’s not in this couple’s and their children’s case.

Lastly, for those condoning Indian child slave labor with reasonings like “500 teenagers die in US every year at their work places”, “US had slavery 150 years ago” are so lame. Those “500″/year (which is a staggering no) are of legal age to work. Teenagers, Ok, but 16 is okay to work and they are doing so out of their consent. They can leave anytime they don’t want to, and NOTE: they are paid prevailing wages. And oh yes, the slavery in US “150 years” ago is so relevant, like you’re admitting that India is 150 years behind US.

Bottom line is love your country of origin, but don’t let it become your sole identity that you have defend its wrongs.

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By: HMF http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-175056 HMF Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:00:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-175056 <p>These two miserable excuses for human beings are going on <a href = "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBr01Uk1hYUWVPqB_-Us4SEM-UBAD8SJ2QBO0">trial</a> today.</p> These two miserable excuses for human beings are going on trial today.

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By: HMF http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-141152 HMF Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-141152 <blockquote>You really are hopeless. Whats the point of including an irrelevant, absurd remark whose only purpose was an idiotic attempt to save face? That remark does not even make any sense. You stupidly mangled future tense with past tense.</blockquote> <p>Umm.. the truth?</p> <blockquote>Just deal with the fact that you did make a "huge fool" out of yourself with such impressively "human being like discussion"</blockquote> <p>I have. It seems like you can't.</p> You really are hopeless. Whats the point of including an irrelevant, absurd remark whose only purpose was an idiotic attempt to save face? That remark does not even make any sense. You stupidly mangled future tense with past tense.

Umm.. the truth?

Just deal with the fact that you did make a “huge fool” out of yourself with such impressively “human being like discussion”

I have. It seems like you can’t.

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By: Prema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-141151 Prema Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:27:28 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-141151 <blockquote>Honesty, as in quoting completely, without the use of ellipses, to alter the subtext of the quote? You can't make this kind of irony up: "You're absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you (assuming you're capable of human being like discussion) I had a made a huge fool of me."</blockquote> <p>You really are hopeless. Whats the point of including an irrelevant, absurd remark whose only purpose was an idiotic attempt to save face? That remark does not even make any sense. You stupidly mangled future tense with past tense.</p> <p>Just deal with the fact that you did make a "huge fool" out of yourself with such impressively "human being like discussion" as : "<i>what the f*ck is "condemnation" going to do........ America didn't give a flying #()$@# what the rest of the world thought</i>" and then finding out that you were completely clueless after all :)</p> Honesty, as in quoting completely, without the use of ellipses, to alter the subtext of the quote? You can’t make this kind of irony up: “You’re absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you (assuming you’re capable of human being like discussion) I had a made a huge fool of me.”

You really are hopeless. Whats the point of including an irrelevant, absurd remark whose only purpose was an idiotic attempt to save face? That remark does not even make any sense. You stupidly mangled future tense with past tense.

Just deal with the fact that you did make a “huge fool” out of yourself with such impressively “human being like discussion” as : “what the f*ck is “condemnation” going to do…….. America didn’t give a flying #()$@# what the rest of the world thought” and then finding out that you were completely clueless after all :)

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By: HMF http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140838 HMF Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:14:29 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140838 <p></blockquote><i>You're absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you......I had a made a huge fool of me.</i> Hope you learned an important lesson from this humiliation: honesty is the best policy :)</blockquote></p> <p>Honesty, as in quoting completely, without the use of ellipses, to alter the subtext of the quote? You can't make this kind of irony up:</p> <p>"You're absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you <b>(assuming you're capable of human being like discussion)</b> I had a made a huge fool of me. Silly Rabbit. Trix are for kids."</p> You’re absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you……I had a made a huge fool of me. Hope you learned an important lesson from this humiliation: honesty is the best policy :)

Honesty, as in quoting completely, without the use of ellipses, to alter the subtext of the quote? You can’t make this kind of irony up:

“You’re absolutely correct, the moment I decided to engage you (assuming you’re capable of human being like discussion) I had a made a huge fool of me. Silly Rabbit. Trix are for kids.”

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By: hema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140803 hema Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:26:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140803 <p>Heh. Well, anyone who can end a discussion with a Python clip is alright by me. :)</p> Heh. Well, anyone who can end a discussion with a Python clip is alright by me. :)

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By: Al_Chutiya_for_debauchery http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140802 Al_Chutiya_for_debauchery Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:25:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140802 <p><i>so why are you arguing with me? Bored, are you? </i></p> <p>I am not <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05EmK66Gsk">arguing</a>.</p> so why are you arguing with me? Bored, are you?

I am not arguing.

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By: hema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140799 hema Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:21:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140799 <p>(1) Well, in that case we're not talking about the same thing, so why are you arguing with me? Bored, are you?</p> <p>(2) I'm suggesting that there is, in fact, not a huge disconnect between what the Court does in fact and what the Court is supposed to do. The empirical evidence tends to bear that out too, especially if you extend observation out to all appellate courts in general, and not just the US Supreme Court.</p> (1) Well, in that case we’re not talking about the same thing, so why are you arguing with me? Bored, are you?

(2) I’m suggesting that there is, in fact, not a huge disconnect between what the Court does in fact and what the Court is supposed to do. The empirical evidence tends to bear that out too, especially if you extend observation out to all appellate courts in general, and not just the US Supreme Court.

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By: Prema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140798 Prema Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:18:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140798 <p>This exchange is amusing and a very good example of how to expose slippery, lying, con artists like hema and HMF:</p> <p>hema: you can stuff your sorries in a sack. I wasn't actually wrong about the procedural due process issue, and certainly nothing on the level of stupendously wrong.</p> <p>acfd: Oh really! Now you say you were not wrong. I digged up your email. This is what you said to me at the end of the email: <i>At any rate, in conclusion, you are right, I am wrong. Mea culpa and all that other good stuff. It's a good thing I don't practice constitutional law! -hema</i></p> <p>hema: I was just being nice in my e-mail...ending the discussion quickly and painlessly. In truth, I don't believe I was "stupendously" wrong. That's it. You can trot that same e-mail out over and over again, and I'll just keep saying the same thing.</p> <p>acfd: I figured that airing this in public will embarass you but I guess I was wrong. Apparently, you just admitted to being wrong because you are nice.</p> <p>LOL. She really should be embarrassed. Its thick-skinned, ignorant hucksters like her who give lawyering a bad name.</p> This exchange is amusing and a very good example of how to expose slippery, lying, con artists like hema and HMF:

hema: you can stuff your sorries in a sack. I wasn’t actually wrong about the procedural due process issue, and certainly nothing on the level of stupendously wrong.

acfd: Oh really! Now you say you were not wrong. I digged up your email. This is what you said to me at the end of the email: At any rate, in conclusion, you are right, I am wrong. Mea culpa and all that other good stuff. It’s a good thing I don’t practice constitutional law! -hema

hema: I was just being nice in my e-mail…ending the discussion quickly and painlessly. In truth, I don’t believe I was “stupendously” wrong. That’s it. You can trot that same e-mail out over and over again, and I’ll just keep saying the same thing.

acfd: I figured that airing this in public will embarass you but I guess I was wrong. Apparently, you just admitted to being wrong because you are nice.

LOL. She really should be embarrassed. Its thick-skinned, ignorant hucksters like her who give lawyering a bad name.

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By: Al_Chutiya_for_debauchery http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/15/oppression_all/comment-page-7/#comment-140797 Al_Chutiya_for_debauchery Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:17:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4440#comment-140797 <p><b>Oooooo. Should I be frightened?</b></p> <p>VERY.</p> <p>Ok, SM Intern wants me to get a room for you. So I am going to go book a room at Motel 6.</p> Oooooo. Should I be frightened?

VERY.

Ok, SM Intern wants me to get a room for you. So I am going to go book a room at Motel 6.

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