Anti Brahminism

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<!--QuoteBegin-Pritam+Jun 25 2006, 11:54 PM-->QUOTE(Pritam @ Jun 25 2006, 11:54 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The vast majority of Tamil speakers, honestly believe that our loyalty is to a vague North, which exists only in our imagination.
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Bullshit! What most Tamil Brahmins feel is not loyalty at all. It is the need to make their careers and lives outside Tamil Nadu. In India, that is mostly to the North. The fact that you are even saying this, tells me you don't know too many Tamil Brahmins. Which is not surprising, considering that the Brahmin population today is between 1-2% of the overall TN population.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Back to the term 'reactionary'. The poor Brahmins, caught in the vice of acute discrimination, look upon to their remembered glories and the Kanchi Mutt, neither one of which will be able to alleviate their condition.
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This basically means - NOTHING. See, the word "reactionary" is an epithet used against their opponents, by people who think their views will inexorably dominate the world in the future. The poor Brahmins look to the Kanchi Mutt, not because it is their political center, but because it is the religious center of their world (not all of them, too! Only to some of them).

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The Kanch Mutt, especially with the previous leader, had a golden opportunity in 1967, when Annadurai was elected. He was from Kanchi and the Mutt lost an opportunity to pay respects to the favourite son.  Just the reverse, had the same CNA been a brahmin, would the Mutt have behaved differently? I leave the reader to answer the question as befitting her/his view.
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Another of your pet peeves, huh Preetam/phantom? Why don't you create a thread about such pap, and we will discuss it on its merits?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One additional point, I may as well bring up. The ones who have emigrated, especially abroad, are among the most reactionary (yes I would like to use the word again). After all, they do not have face they day to day life hinderances.
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I see. So, what does the word "reactionary" mean, in this context? They hate all non-brahmins? They hate the LTTE, that peaceful organization of "freedom fighters" you so love? Why not say what you actually mean, instead of labeling your opponents with such vague epithets?

<b>day-to-day life hindrances</b>, you say? What would these be? Let me guess, government-initiated discrimination, and government's neglect of petty crimes and insults that fall their way. That is why you should be agitating against the government, <b>not blaming the victims or their long-dead forefathers!</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Make peace with your fellow Tamil Hindus and try to get on with it. Instead of whining that an old way of life is dying. Maybe it was based on wrongness of universal inequality in the first place. This would not play in the 21st century.
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Universal, government-imposed unequal treatment is what you have now. That is what you should be complaining now; and you should have been complaining about when it was instituted.