When I was talking about the difference between secular and pseudo-secular, I was referring to your use of it in the phrase, "
we are just countering the ideas that you represent, the pseudo secular, conveniently liberal intelligentsia that you represent.
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Those are emphatically not the ideas I represent.
In your anxiety to settle scores with the Congress and similarly minded manipulators of religious differences, you have not bothered to figure out that a Congress-hating person would not have much interest in "representing" the Congress.
Right, explicit enough.
Point to a single paragraph, a single phrase where I have supported Taslima Nasreen's victimisation - even within the last fortnight, I used that as an example of intolerance - or the banning of the Da Vince Code (I did not even know the book was banned) .
Would you mind explaining why, without understanding my position at all, you coolly assume it to be something that you have seen elsewhere, and start attacking me on that basis? Who gave you the right to put ideas into my mind that were never there, to put words and expressions into my mouth that I never uttered?
It is precisely this kind of careless, sloppy reading that I deplore, and will continue to deplore. If you cannot take the trouble to figure out what I have said, and that leads to your making attacks on me which are totally not justified, would I be justified in calling you out on that?
Can we make it simple? I'll do it by numbers:
- I am not the media;
- Don't split your infinitives.
Great, terrific, good for the right wingers in question, whoever "represents" them. How does that virtuous position have anything to do with my views, and what you made gross mistakes in figuring out, and thereafter attacked without understanding it?
Not in one place, but in dozens, I have criticised every religion, including Islam.
Is it then my fault that you have carelessly overlooked those, and think, wrongly, that I am solely anti-Hindu?
Yes, I am an Indian. Yes, I understand Indian society very well, better than any outsider, better than many insiders.
I AM NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF LEAVING INDIAN SOCIETY AND ITS RESIDENTS ALONE.
I believe that it is urgently necessary for Indian society, and for Indians who are typical members of that society, and of those thought processes and social positions, to change. Not TOWARDS a racial stereotype from another society, but towards an ideal of enlightenment and progressive thinking.
Why should I think in a negative way and let the sludge remain?
Your assessment of my views and my position are disastrously wrong, badly mistaken. Do you at least understand this? Do you get that I am not the left leaning Indian intellectual stereotype that you have been apparently looking for?
Where, when and how did I, Joe Shearer, do this?
Get real. You are fighting someone else, and putting my name in front.
Has it dawned on you yet that you have been talking utter rubbish, mischievous rubbish, about views of mine which are non-existent?
This is amazing.
Where did you get me participating in this hysteria?
Second, that is not because I believe that this weird conspiracy theory of yours, about American right wing and "their" Church (as if there is a single church that all Americans belong to) being behind pressure on the government of India. I don't believe conspiracy theories unless there is a thread of evidence.
Excuse me for refusing to belong to either side on this preposterous issue.
And which party have you selected for me? Did you even check this thread, where someone asked me which party I supported? Why don't you take a look? I agree finding out how wrong you are might make you cringe, but then, what is to be done?
Again, what ideology have you selected for me?
When and where did you get that? Facts please, not your confused false impressions.
Modern? What's modern about libel? You are not a modern right winger, whatever that self-glorifying epithet might mean. You are just a sad, confused being who has just been guilty of libel (look it up).
LOL.
Did no one tell you about the birds and bees? Or about the difference between left and liberal?
Of course not!
You imagine me saying things I didn't, thinking things I didn't, belonging to a party that I haven't, owning an ideology that you have identified for me, and then, after all these manipulations, you think that your mistakes can be covered by adding that stock phrase which is so meaningless?
