We did go thru in our minds, “Well Eve was student body president…a more prominent position than a typical student, so perhaps that’s why she got more coverage”. But I can’t help but think there was some bias, that may have also effected the police’s efforts in capturing the killer. Perhaps if they had put more effort and if more attention had been given the Indian Duke student, than Eve’s untimely death could have been avoided too.

Yes, but you should know that your commenting on the thread helped bring it to our attention. If stuff like that stays up, often it’s because we don’t know about it.

I have to agree – great metaphor, JJ. And oops on the ABD thing. Though I’m a 1.5 too and I guess that if you’ve been raised for the most part on the U.S. sometimes you pretty much are an ABD.

Are Reality Check’s/Prema’s comments going to be deleted?

You questioned whether guns could have protected Jews from Hitler, calling it a “silly claim”. The Jews in Warsaw were from that point of view indulging in a “silly” exercise then weren’t they ? I didn’t make any exhortation, merely pointed out what would have quickly happened if they had been convinced their rebellion was silly, since they were resorting to a poorly armed, doomed fight against a heavily armed enemy. Apparently the sacrcasm in my statement was missed.

Ok… using the logic of criminal gangs use of guns(who are anyway banned by law from gun ownership) as a reason ban legal access to guns for defensive purposes is like banning cars because illegal high speed street racers kill themselves and bystanders with their extreme actions. Do you think the 100 million or so car owners who mostly use their vehicles for commuting/business should have all their driving privileges/cars taken away because of what those street drifters do ?

What was the personal insult in my earlier response ?

Reread my comment, and see if you can refute that, not your paraphrase of it which calls Jews silly, exhorts them to be gassed, and ignores my question about gang violence.

I do accept your apology, though, but I am not going to get into a further discussion with you, since you seem to be more interested in personal insults than actually making your case.

184 · Jangali Jaanwar said

183 · Roger said For the Indian government to issue a ‘warning’ is ridiculous

In future when the difference between living in US and India becomes less and less, current demands of higher standards from the world in terms of travel warnings for US citizens, health check-up reports etc for visitors to US, will be replicated by India in the areas of safety of living, human rights ( religious freedom, racism ), quality of life in US etc. This will be an inevitable effect of equalization of standard of living. Very long you may very well see “Amnesty International of India” poking into US. You can see it very well happening wrt to global warming where the US has poor record.