[lbo-talk] Indians cope with influx of Western "gayness" thing, which was sort of OK before the Brits

Peter Ward nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk
Tue Jun 30 22:15:50 PDT 2009


If one wants to talk values, the West is probably the most depraved of all (and it is in fact barely tolerant of sexual "aberrations", such as no conceptual incest): what does mass murder, say as the result of the conquest of another's land, get one--oftener than not, a bank holiday.


> --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > "The Hindu view was very, very tolerant," Mr Kidwai said.
> > "If you look at punishments, making love to another man got
> > far less punishment than a caste infraction. Certain people
> > who were known to have lovers of the same sex were even
> > venerated."

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