06-17-2007, 09:22 AM
This is a delicate topic, and my view is somewhat unfashionable, but, here goes...
<!--QuoteBegin-Capt Manmohan Kumar+Jun 17 2007, 08:41 AM-->QUOTE(Capt Manmohan Kumar @ Jun 17 2007, 08:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->For the much discriminated manual scavengers of Paliyad, the graduate student researchers will bring a ray of hope. The ecological sanitation toilet, being developed by them, will change the life of this downtrodden community. It could actually be the beginning of a social change.
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"I was touched when a person told me that she thought of herself not as a human but rather an animal, 'something' outside the caste or human race.
This person internalised the oppression," says Joel Campos-Alvis
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The final report that they came up with recommended a modified design of ecosan toilet.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That is it?! The development of a kind of toilet that will not involve a human carrying the faecal matter, will remove all oppression?! This probably means that the scavengers were not "oppressed" in the first place.
The use of the word "oppressed" and "human rights violation" has been broadened to include virtually all actions that left-wing idiots don't like.
If in fact, there was oppression, as in the use of power to cause harm to their persons or property, how could these ecosan toilets cure it? From the article, nothing else was done anyway!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Paliyad, the scavengers are an unusually active lot, having litigated the state before and having been sensitised by NGO Navsarjan to the violation of their rights. Thus, they are somewhat easier to bring on board," says Rajagopal.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, of course, Navsarjan, run by the Dalit "activist" Martin Macwan, indoctrinated the scavengers into believing they were the victims of human rights violations. Now, the other people of that area, having tasted new innovations, the scavengers will be out of jobs. The jobs are not the kind that I would like to be paid for, but they are jobs nonetheless. The fact that even the scavengers had to be "brought on board", means they were reluctant to lose the security that these jobs offered.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The team is also looking at creating alternative jobs for the scavengers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is the one thing that could have moved these poor folk from their previous jobs. If they had done this one thing alone, the rhetoric would have been unnecessary.
<!--QuoteBegin-Capt Manmohan Kumar+Jun 17 2007, 08:41 AM-->QUOTE(Capt Manmohan Kumar @ Jun 17 2007, 08:41 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->For the much discriminated manual scavengers of Paliyad, the graduate student researchers will bring a ray of hope. The ecological sanitation toilet, being developed by them, will change the life of this downtrodden community. It could actually be the beginning of a social change.
...
"I was touched when a person told me that she thought of herself not as a human but rather an animal, 'something' outside the caste or human race.
This person internalised the oppression," says Joel Campos-Alvis
...
The final report that they came up with recommended a modified design of ecosan toilet.
...
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That is it?! The development of a kind of toilet that will not involve a human carrying the faecal matter, will remove all oppression?! This probably means that the scavengers were not "oppressed" in the first place.
The use of the word "oppressed" and "human rights violation" has been broadened to include virtually all actions that left-wing idiots don't like.
If in fact, there was oppression, as in the use of power to cause harm to their persons or property, how could these ecosan toilets cure it? From the article, nothing else was done anyway!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Paliyad, the scavengers are an unusually active lot, having litigated the state before and having been sensitised by NGO Navsarjan to the violation of their rights. Thus, they are somewhat easier to bring on board," says Rajagopal.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, of course, Navsarjan, run by the Dalit "activist" Martin Macwan, indoctrinated the scavengers into believing they were the victims of human rights violations. Now, the other people of that area, having tasted new innovations, the scavengers will be out of jobs. The jobs are not the kind that I would like to be paid for, but they are jobs nonetheless. The fact that even the scavengers had to be "brought on board", means they were reluctant to lose the security that these jobs offered.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The team is also looking at creating alternative jobs for the scavengers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is the one thing that could have moved these poor folk from their previous jobs. If they had done this one thing alone, the rhetoric would have been unnecessary.