<!--QuoteBegin-sureshmoorthy+Mar 5 2008, 12:11 PM-->QUOTE(sureshmoorthy @ Mar 5 2008, 12:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Put simply, rather than say foolish things like, "There should be no racism, racism is evil," and other such old, hackneyed phrases, our attitude should be: Let there be racism, let the Aussies be racist, let the world be racist. We'll be racists too, and give them a taste of their own medicine.[right][snapback]79311[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This must be a joke. A particularly <i>un</i>funny one.
It's like saying "if they're doing drugs, we'll do it too. That'll teach 'em (how???)" Or: "if they behave like nazis, we'll show them by nazying back at them." Wah? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Racism is a debilitating mental disease that people can't shake. No one wants to catch it. Don't try it.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->let the world be racist<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Can't be serious. That's an ultra-nihilist statement. Why would anyone <i>ever</i> wish for that. It'd be kinder to humanity if you wished a meteor to bang into the planet and end all life. (Am not encouraging such fancies by the way)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Given the fact that these white cricketers from Aus. have been racist, why is it Indians tend to fawn over them, and instead pick on the non-white Symonds? Am I the only one to find this bizarre?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Didn't watch the cricket match(es) concerned, but it's rather straightforward. Symonds behaves little better than the others in his team. But Indian crowds see him as more at their own level, precisely because of his background/appearance (not 'white') - which puts him on an equal footing, and so they feel they can yell at him and reprimand him/get their own back. In other words: Indians are still intimidated by Europeans; it's the colonial mentality - don't dare to respond to them.
But the opposite - arrogance - won't solve this problem either.
The only solution I can think of is to make Aus learn that offending others to score cheap points is not sport and no one wants to play with such losers. Competitive sports are a different kind of contest altogether: they're not about who's the most foul-mouthed. SA was stood up by several countries before, because of apartheid. If I were in charge of our nation's cricket team, I'd boycott any game if there's been racist nonsense. So should SL and any other countries. Else they're selling self-respect very cheaply (but it's hard to expect anything of cricket when the example of our own 'esteemed' government is so glaring: selling India to TSP, internal islamoterrorists, China, internal communiterrorists, missionaries and internal converted christoterrorists.)
Why would you play with people who've offended you <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Let Aus learn that playing alone isn't fun. Else - assuming that UK and others will still be eager to play with Aus - they can keep it just between western countries like in the 'good old' colonial days. That way they can always pretend they're the best <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> And the non-colonial world can also play with each other and hopefully take part for actual sports.
It's like saying "if they're doing drugs, we'll do it too. That'll teach 'em (how???)" Or: "if they behave like nazis, we'll show them by nazying back at them." Wah? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Racism is a debilitating mental disease that people can't shake. No one wants to catch it. Don't try it.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->let the world be racist<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Can't be serious. That's an ultra-nihilist statement. Why would anyone <i>ever</i> wish for that. It'd be kinder to humanity if you wished a meteor to bang into the planet and end all life. (Am not encouraging such fancies by the way)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Given the fact that these white cricketers from Aus. have been racist, why is it Indians tend to fawn over them, and instead pick on the non-white Symonds? Am I the only one to find this bizarre?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Didn't watch the cricket match(es) concerned, but it's rather straightforward. Symonds behaves little better than the others in his team. But Indian crowds see him as more at their own level, precisely because of his background/appearance (not 'white') - which puts him on an equal footing, and so they feel they can yell at him and reprimand him/get their own back. In other words: Indians are still intimidated by Europeans; it's the colonial mentality - don't dare to respond to them.
But the opposite - arrogance - won't solve this problem either.
The only solution I can think of is to make Aus learn that offending others to score cheap points is not sport and no one wants to play with such losers. Competitive sports are a different kind of contest altogether: they're not about who's the most foul-mouthed. SA was stood up by several countries before, because of apartheid. If I were in charge of our nation's cricket team, I'd boycott any game if there's been racist nonsense. So should SL and any other countries. Else they're selling self-respect very cheaply (but it's hard to expect anything of cricket when the example of our own 'esteemed' government is so glaring: selling India to TSP, internal islamoterrorists, China, internal communiterrorists, missionaries and internal converted christoterrorists.)
Why would you play with people who've offended you <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Let Aus learn that playing alone isn't fun. Else - assuming that UK and others will still be eager to play with Aus - they can keep it just between western countries like in the 'good old' colonial days. That way they can always pretend they're the best <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> And the non-colonial world can also play with each other and hopefully take part for actual sports.
Death to traitors.