[Reader-list] shuddhabratas response

[Tapas Ray]

PS to my earlier post:

Even though Ms Jogi is probably happy with the way her posts have turned the 
Sarai list from a very imperfect approximation of a public sphere type space 
of rational critical discourse into a hate space where identities are being 
attacked (by Ms Jogi and Emma, for instance) or asserted and defended (as I 
have done just now), I cannot help thinking that she has reason to be 
unhappy, too - she can see that there are plenty of list members who will 
not accept in silence her proselytizing efforts in aid of certain primitive 
points of view.

And yes, I stand with Shuddhabata in "understanding" Abhit's outrage, even 
though I think, like Shuddha, that his language was wrong, and probably 
misogynic - even though he merely referred to copulation while the original 
sin - spreading hatred against Muslims - is often accompanied by rape and 
murder on a large scale, as in Gujarat, and is not limited to mere verbal 
references to sexual intercourse ... I should add that I do not know whether 
Ms Jogi has personally taken part in that sort of mayhem, but she does 
defend those who indulge in these for breakfast.

In law, there is something called "mitigating circumstance". A murder who 
kills under grave provocation, gets a lesser sentence than one who kills in 
cold blood. Abhit wrote what he wrote under grave provocation from Ms Jogi. 
Hence our "understanding".

Hope this helps.

Tapas Ray



> Alright guys enough is enough! This is not to condone the outrageously
> content of the blog Vedvati wanted us to visit, or to condone Abhik's
> response to the same (makes me wonder what kind of a background he comes
> from), but Shuddhabrata you really take the cake. A pseudo like you seems 
> to
> "understand" Abhik's posting! Even pimps have more dignity than some Bong
> men, some Bong men like you!