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