Minorities are labeled as backwards and no one digs any deeper to see if that individual person might be the real problem. For most, the ethnicity or race itself becomes the “root” of the person’s flaws. On the other hand, the “All-American” criminals/bad guys are victims of their environment, troubled childhoods, psychological issues, financial stress, etc.

I don’t like Dharun Ravi and find his actions repulsive and appalling. But the way the media treated him was equally appalling to me, as an Indian-American.

You yourself ADMIT there’s no justice or fairness, so why so defensive against minorities that stick together? Against whites? Umm, of course since YOU are the majority now, aren’t you? For someone who enjoys s much power, you sure do whine a lot as if you’re some victim of sorts, don’t you? If your rules and ways of dealing with minorities wasn’t biased against us – you’d actually have a reason to rant against us – c’mon dude, you guy don’t even play black musicians on Rock radio stations while black stations WILL play white artists who rap so quit playing the ‘PC canon’ card – start actually behaving impartially and treat others fairly and maybe you’ll actually have a point about us ‘swallowing the PC cannon’ then. Oh, and your ‘the browniez are howling’ bit said more about YOU than anything else you posted.

P.S. For the record – there is NO confusion to my opinion – Dharun Ravi is a voyeuristic jerk who deserves ALL the punishment he gets. It’s amazing that someone who claims to be ‘homophobic’ will videotape a gay dude having sex – I mean, isn’t he supposed to be turned off by that sort of thing?!! Sounds to me like the court isn’t the only thing he’s trying to fool – and the biggest fool is the man who fools himself ……

The suggestion that tormented gays should just suck it up and move on, because that’s what tormented Indo-Americans have always done, has a very dubious factual premise.

“My daddy, he made sure me and brother seen it. Hell for all I know, he done the job.”

Bias intimidation turns on whether concludes that Clementi “reasonably believed” DR was trying to intimidate him. It is a close case factually–could have gone either way with the jury. As for the other crime, he did spy or try to spy on TC. There is no reason to believe that this is an ordinary prank. If you knew your child’s roommate was taping him during intimate acts and inviting others to watch it, would you be so sympathetic? This is not a typical college prank that one feels compelled to give DR the benefit of the doubt. He was given an exceptionally generous plea bargain (I speak that as someone with both prosecution and defense experience). He should have taken it.

the challenge with immigrant communities lies when there is a large concentration in a small space, like central nj, where its just EASY to mingle with people like you. there’s no reason to branch out when there’s dozens of Desis everywhere, even in public school and that kind of thing happens with all groups.

but i do not think it is “asking for the moon” to encourage people to push their own limits and be open to those who are different from them.

the painful component of the dharun ravi case is as i said before, the focus on the fact that “he’s not a bigot”, but what about the fact that when confronted with something that confused him, his reaction was rejecting & fearful, and he acted in a way to directly humiliate or shame somebody else. to me that is directly related to being raised in a relatively closed environment with little exposure to people who are different from him. i dont think this only happens in desi communities, im just saying that overall insularity and narrowness of experience contributes to the problem at large.

On this point, you are really asking for the moon. How many Americans, particularly ethnic Americans from, say, Poland, Ukraine, Brazil, Puerto Rico or Philippines, have friends outside their community, and moreover, friends who are gay AND from a different class background. Don’t expect ultra-idealism and angelic behaviour from Desis. It’s not fair to them(us).