You're just mad because you never heard of the Chuvash. :) By the way, the entire Slavic population of Eastern Europe was destined for the gas chambers.
Nobody here knows anything about women's struggles in Iran. None of us have been to Iran and none of us speak Farsi. We are interpreting thing through many levels of ignorance. In other words, we are slinging bullshit.
--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Roma history
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 9:44 PM
> I bet there were other people who
> were a bit irritated that you knew next to
> nothing about feminist struggles/women's politics in
> Iran... what's your
> point?
> In any event, do you really put this on Hugo? Why not
> Cher? Keerist. Did
> the the Chuvash, Kalmyks, Buryats, Cossacks, Tyvans,
> Bashkirs" migrate
> across _Western_ Europe as tinkers for centuries
> experiencing various forms
> of oppression the whole time - including some time in the
> gas chambers?
> Westerners, whoever the hell they are, know all sorts of
> selective, biased
> and messed up crap about the rest of the planet... why be
> pissed about this
> more than the fact that 95% of my undergrads - despite
> knowing soldiers who
> are there - can't find Iraq on a map and claim the war
> doesn't affect them.
> Dude, filter your Enter key.
> A
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > BTW, I find Westerners' obsession with the Roma, of
> all of the billion
> > zillion fascinating Eastern European and Eurasian
> ethnic groups, to be
> > extremely annoying. Victor Hugo wrote a book with them
> in it that was made
> > into a Disney movie, so they're in the popular
> consciousness, unlike all the
> > other billion zillion Eastern European and Eurasian
> ethnic groups, such as
> > the Chuvash, the Kalmyks, the Buryats, the Cossacks,
> the Tyvans, the
> > Bashkirs, etc. etc. etc. It would be pretty damn hard
> to find a Westerner
> > who knows that the Chuvash even exist, despite there
> being two million of
> > them, with their own language, which is quite
> beautiful:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4ME10Hgho&feature=related
> >
> >
> >
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