07-31-2008, 08:18 PM
Husky:
If an author writes 10 pieces, and 8 out of them are nonsense; one can conclude that the author does not have any sense. But we can not ignore that even in those 8 pieces, there might be one or two items that the author could have got it right.
What happens when we ignore is that those assertions remains unchallenged, and they become the talking points for the cherry-pickers.
There is danger in ignoring and retaliating, we ought to do them both judiciously. We can not just ignore everything or attempt to retaliate every point - a balance must be reached.
For example in the not-to-be-named place, a question was posed
"do you see any other religion devaluing and denigrating their
fellow human beings more than Hindu religion?"
As you can imagine, a lot was said before this, right from the favorite casteism, to pouring lead into the ears thingy that we so often hear, manu smriti yada yada.
We ought to step up against the smear campaign.
If an author writes 10 pieces, and 8 out of them are nonsense; one can conclude that the author does not have any sense. But we can not ignore that even in those 8 pieces, there might be one or two items that the author could have got it right.
What happens when we ignore is that those assertions remains unchallenged, and they become the talking points for the cherry-pickers.
There is danger in ignoring and retaliating, we ought to do them both judiciously. We can not just ignore everything or attempt to retaliate every point - a balance must be reached.
For example in the not-to-be-named place, a question was posed
"do you see any other religion devaluing and denigrating their
fellow human beings more than Hindu religion?"
As you can imagine, a lot was said before this, right from the favorite casteism, to pouring lead into the ears thingy that we so often hear, manu smriti yada yada.
We ought to step up against the smear campaign.