From: banerjee@hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Welcome to SCI....where xenophobia and hypocrisy rule the netwaves
Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:13:10 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana) writes:

Actually your style is quite commendable too....you know the self righteous
cry baby, help!-administrator charade that you have perfected.

>Demagoguery:Smacks of demagoguery,a label you apply rather casually to others.

As far as I recollect, I have never used (nor do I intend to) SCI as
a bully pulpit to get my message across to the 'ignorant masses'.  I am
a scientist Aayush, not a USENET evangelist and I use reason to convince
people to see my side of the story. I do not claim divine intervention and
unlike you do not go through the rigmarole of being pretentiously dogmatic. 
So please cut the pontificial and moralistic pedagogy that you seem to take
a perverse delight in. 

Notice also, that you have switched rather adroitly from 'me' to  'us' in a
blatant and transparently obvious attempt to pander to the 'silent masses',
whose 'plight' has suddenly become that much closer to your heart and who 
you claim have suffered 'inferiority seizures' as a result of Ed Crick and
my attempts to increase the literary level of this newsgroup. Do you honestly,
need a better definition of hypocrisy?

>Xenophobia:	There is no real `Keep Out' sign in SCI and there
>		on SCI.  It can be argued that if useful cultural

Culture on SCI? Get a reality check done Aayush. 
SCI attracts the kind of readership it does and it's share of riff-raff too
because of it's potential for chaos, unmitigated anarchy and inconceivable
flame wars. I doubt if any other newsgroup can lay claim to such a wide
array of recreational oppurtunities or bizzare characters.

SCI in that sense is no better than your average supermarket check out
stand tabloid...the National Enquirer of the USENET community. As for
keeping people out, the Nimmala/Mustafa/Doki clones who come here to roost
do not seem to have a problem getting their inane and arcane posts through.
Wether they have anything useful to say is another matter altogether.
 
>Hypocrisy:	By constant use of metaphors/allegories/analogies
>		which are thinly veiled insults and cheap shots in

I have always believed and lived by the "survival of the fittest" rule.
It is my prerogative to flame intellectually depraved or mentally
incapacitated individuals and if they cannot defend themselves, they have no
business posting to SCI in the first place. This is not the place that
caters to the entertainment needs of the weak-at-heart or publicity shy
individual.

>Your Rights:	

As a serving member of the net police you should know how to read somebody
his rights. "You have the right to remain silent. Should you choose to
give up that right, anything you say can and will be used in a report
to your systems administrator and if need be repeatedly until you are gagged".

>What to Do:	When the concept of free speech becomes a masquerade

This undoubtedly is the punch line of your entire post. Free speech can 
never be a masquerade (as somebody else also pointed out) and by saying 
that you expose your callousness and overall ignorance of the Bill of Rights. 

As Ben Franklin quoting Voltaire once said,

"I may not agree with anything you say but I will give up my life defending
to right to say it, nonetheless".

Let me answer that "What to do" part for you. You have two alternatives

(a) Hit 'n' and move on
(b) Make kill files for those people whose postings you do not wish to read.

What not to do?

Dont rush to the system admin at the drop of a hat. 
Dont change to the cry-baby, help!-administrator mode unless you have to.

Samit
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