[lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Mar 6 18:56:26 PST 2006


I don't know, Chris gets to have an opinion and his familiarity with Russian bashing does make him sensitive to the phenomenon. I'm willing to bet Roy gets to go on some nice junkets with her anguished shtick. I did think that the article Chris re-posted was very mean spirited, but I also agree with most of the points below.

Joanna

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> 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
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> <http://monthlyreview.org>
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