Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, kishore patnaik

<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:

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> > For every such incident, I can show hundreds of such incidents
> > happening in Britain and other racist European countries.

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> Coming from a society where racism is an inherent part of society,

We all come from societies where racism is or was an inherent part.
That's an unfortunately inherent trait of humans uninformed by the
Enlightenment.

> you don't have a leg to stand on.

All one needs to have a solid "leg" in such regard is that he not
be racist _himself_, his society not withstanding. Unfortunately
most of the participants in this thread have, with their language,
undermined our confidence that they're not racists.

> I see caste discrimination where I work, where a Hindi-speaking
> Brahmin colleague refuses to speak to lower caste Indians or
> Dravidians --whom she considers as the same as Dalits.

What's her full name? Let us bathe all racists and casteists that
we can find in as much shame as possible, I say.

David