<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> 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.<br> <br> Joanna<br> <br> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid2E56EBBB-9328-430E-BDED-A9354EF976D6@osu.edu">Chris wrote: <div><br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> I dislike her for:</span></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none; min-height: 21px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">1. overblown rhetoric</span></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none; min-height: 21px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">2. a childish view of the world</span></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none; min-height: 21px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">3. a perceived attempt to pander to Western leftist </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">audiences, leading to e.g. apparently deliberately </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">lying about Indian public opinion</span></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none; min-height: 21px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">4. often seemingly not knowing what she's talking </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">about</span></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none; min-height: 21px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">5. India-bashing so extreme it makes me suspect she </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">has an agenda, like so many Russians who write </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Russia-bashing absurdities in places like the Guardian</span></font></div> </blockquote> <br> <div> <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>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.</div> <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"> </div> <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"> </div> <div>Yoshie Furuhashi</div> <div><<a href="http://montages.blogspot.com">http://montages.blogspot.com</a>></div> <div><<a href="http://mrzine.org">http://mrzine.org</a>></div> <div><<a href="http://monthlyreview.org">http://monthlyreview.org</a>></div> </div> <br> </div> <pre wrap=""> <hr width="90%" size="4"> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a></pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>