From: ck@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Chandrasekhar Kambhampati)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Tastelessness or shear hypocracy
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:30:19 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


Strange things happen to otherwise intelligent people. Perhaps I am
stretching the meaning of intelligent here. BUt what the heck.

A mere suggestion of deportation of people, innocents perhaps, for their
support of terrorists and terrorism, has enraged many. Charges of
tastelessness, and many threats even. But guys take a step back and have a look
at yourselves in the mirror.

SL TAmils can abuse Indians, their culture, their mores, their
Democratically elected leaders, assisinate their leaders, introduce gun
culture and the culture of the hoodlum onto the streets of otherwise
safe towns. This is  according to them their birth right. Sure enough it
may be. But what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the.......cliched 
perhaps - but very true in this context.

One Mr Kumanan (kumanan@ug.cs.dal.ca (poovai  kumanan)) writes:

>Mr. Vishnu has not posted anything on SCT to indicate that he is
>a terrorist. If you cannot present a meaningful debate, then refrain
>from calling names and posting tasteless articles such as the one
>chandrasekhar posted.

To him and to others I say:

	Terrorist sympathiser = terrorist.
	Sympathiser of terrorist organistions = terrorist
	Funder of terrorist organisation = terrorist

If terrorists maim kill people, then they are guilty - along with them
people who support and provide succour to these organisations  are also
guilty.
Meaningful debate can only happen when people are not like the
one-legged man who can only go 'Left, Left, Left....' or 'RIght,
RIght,...'. You need to march with both feet. If your only slogan is
India is bad, crap etc you are loosing sight of your own aims and goals.
If you heep abuse on its culture, you are loosing sight of your own
culture, and again your own aims and what you want to achieve. 
Heaping abuse on its leaders, shows your own confidence in your
leadership. You are again loosing sight of your aims, and what it is you
are fighting for. Perhaps this it may be the case that you guys donot
know what it is you actually want to achieve. It is lost in all that
bile, venom, and vitriol. 

You guys have the gall to comment on tastelessness of postings. 

Just as it irks you guys to be called terrorists, it irks us Indians
when we see abuse and insult being heaped on India, its DEMOCRATICALLY elected
Leaders, its culture, and its mores. It is for us, if we want to abuse our
leaders, to do so. You are outsiders, who been given safe haven. 
If we want to remove our leaders from power it is for us to do so. ANd
we do it democratically - no ones threathens us, and no one kills them.
Outsiders, who have been given safe haven should keep out of this. And
not introduce their gun culture, cyanide culture, and hoodlumism. 

You lot can insult, and call names of all the people you like - its in
good taste. But giving it back to you in the same vain is tastelessness.
It is not me or anyone on the net who has to refrain from calling names. ITs
guys like you and your ilk who have to stop it first. Stop insulting our
intelligence.

So before calling postings tasteless, please have a look at the postings
emanating from your end. They are equally tasteless. Here is a sample:

One K. Sritharan (sri@stan.xx.swin.oz.au) writes 
"Thanks god you are not SL tamil!!! "

Am I to take it as a threat. If I was a Sri-Lankan Tamil, perhaps I
would not be writing this piece - for I would be dead, or sometime
equally bad would have happened around me. This is tastelessness in the
extreme. Perhaps it just shews up your lack of taste. Another cliche
people who live in Glass houses..........

It is precisely because of this kind of an attitude that the SL-Tamils are
loosing support and sympathy in India. A lot of people sympathised with your
cause. But now after the antics of many SL-Tamils, all there is left is
pity and sorrow.Yes pity for the way you have squandered chances, pity
for the way hell has been created in Sri-Lanka. Sorry for the way in which you
have degraded life (not only yours but also others), sorry for your
pettiness, sorry for your lack of understanding, sorry for your lack of
constructive imagination and your trust in armed violence, sorry for
your blind hatred.

Good day and good luck to you guys. But please refrain from abusing and
insulting us Indians. And before you lot start issuing notes on
tastelessness please take a look at yourselves in the mirror.
And stop issuing threats - its crass and tasteless in the extreme.

regards
chandrasekhar
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