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

--- david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, kishore patnaik
> <kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:
> >
> > > For every such incident, I can show hundreds of
> such incidents
> > > happening in Britain and other racist European
> countries.
>
> - edit -
>
> > 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

The person is on the way out, about to retire but if
you were to ask the non-Brahmin Dravidian Indians at
Delaware State, they would tell you in more detail. A
friend of mine, a Telugu named Reddy told me about a
bizarre experience when he was introduced to her and
she looked at him and walked away without speaking.
And Reddy, from what I understand, is a mid-level
jati.