[lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Mar 6 16:24:48 PST 2006


Chris wrote:


> I dislike her for:
>
> 1. overblown rhetoric
>
> 2. a childish view of the world
>
> 3. a perceived attempt to pander to Western leftist audiences,
> leading to e.g. apparently deliberately lying about Indian public
> opinion
>
> 4. often seemingly not knowing what she's talking about
>
> 5. India-bashing so extreme it makes me suspect she has an agenda,
> like so many Russians who write Russia-bashing absurdities in
> places like the Guardian

Those are just your claims. You, like Ulhas, Mike, etc., are simply stating your opinion as if it were self-evidently correct and obviously superior to whatever Arundhati Roy has said. I'm sure that it gives you a nice feeling to have such a high opinion of yourself, but I remain unpersuaded of your claim to intellectual superiority to her. To my way of thinking, the way you write about her just looks, well, mean-spirited. You can simply disagree with her and leave it at that, without accusing her of lying and pandering, for which you really can't present any evidence.

Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org>

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