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**finnmontserrat** · 04-09-2007, 01:39 AM

Dear baimaami:
Please, I wasn't upset nor will I ever be; after all, all this is in the family, so to speak! If I gave you that idea, that only goes to show my inadequacy in expressing my thoughts in writing.

I don't exactly remember the details of that posting about us joining the christians - as a matter of fact, I took it as this member was suggesting sort of with a tongue-in-cheek! It is so preposterous that I didn't think whoever wrote it would mean in a serious way.

I don't try to speak for Praveen, Ramki or Chintana. Ok, guys! it is your call!

Maami, you talk about being disillusioned! Right now, I am in Chennai and I see what is going on with Mr. MK's regime. He has recently spoken about providing reservations to Christians and Muslims!! What then? Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs, maybe? Who else is left? As someone said, maybe Tamil Nadu should be called 'Reservation Nadu'!!

Anyway, right now, our priority is to set up a trust and help out those needy youngsters in our community for education.

Dear SilverFox,

I did not seek to upset you with my post. But here is what I feel:
(a) This site is "tamilbrahmins.com" . We are here because we are dwindling in numbers, we are scattered, and our identity is under siege. I presume we are here because we take pride in our identity (religious,social,& cultural) and hope to preserve what is left of it. Now, along comes some smart-alec and suggests that we obliterate our identity altogether through conversion!!
Does this not defeat the very raison d' etre of this web-site? Why do you give voice to those who wish to bring about the destruction of what you seek to preserve?
(b) I think the Tamil Brahmin community is being put upon precisely because we espouse free-speech, liberalism, and progressive-politics. If I did not believe in these values, then I would be at one of those right-wing, realpolitik sites - although lately I am beginning to wonder whether I should move elsewhere. Why waste time at a site that espouses the destruction of my identity, as even-handedly as the preservation of it? If we don't stick-up for what is ours, here, then where? Who speaks for us?
Would the Jews/Americans/French take very kindly if they were asked to relinquish their Jewishness/American values/French traditions ? The ADL would be all over the place !!
(c) I believe in collective responsibility (that is our tradition), and so I certainly don't intend to hang everything on the administrators (and certainly not you) - but I think there are bounds even to free-speech. When free-speech borders on the inflammatory, and questions our very existence - then we should have the freedom to protest, editorialize, and SQUELCH!
I am sorry too, SilverFox - but I grow very disillusioned ...

04-09-2007, 01:39 AM	#7
finnmontserrat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	Dear baimaami: Please, I wasn't upset nor will I ever be; after all, all this is in the family, so to speak! If I gave you that idea, that only goes to show my inadequacy in expressing my thoughts in writing. I don't exactly remember the details of that posting about us joining the christians - as a matter of fact, I took it as this member was suggesting sort of with a tongue-in-cheek! It is so preposterous that I didn't think whoever wrote it would mean in a serious way. I don't try to speak for Praveen, Ramki or Chintana. Ok, guys! it is your call! Maami, you talk about being disillusioned! Right now, I am in Chennai and I see what is going on with Mr. MK's regime. He has recently spoken about providing reservations to Christians and Muslims!! What then? Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs, maybe? Who else is left? As someone said, maybe Tamil Nadu should be called 'Reservation Nadu'!! Anyway, right now, our priority is to set up a trust and help out those needy youngsters in our community for education. Dear SilverFox, I did not seek to upset you with my post. But here is what I feel: (a) This site is "tamilbrahmins.com" . We are here because we are dwindling in numbers, we are scattered, and our identity is under siege. I presume we are here because we take pride in our identity (religious,social,& cultural) and hope to preserve what is left of it. Now, along comes some smart-alec and suggests that we obliterate our identity altogether through conversion!! Does this not defeat the very raison d' etre of this web-site? Why do you give voice to those who wish to bring about the destruction of what you seek to preserve? (b) I think the Tamil Brahmin community is being put upon precisely because we espouse free-speech, liberalism, and progressive-politics. If I did not believe in these values, then I would be at one of those right-wing, realpolitik sites - although lately I am beginning to wonder whether I should move elsewhere. Why waste time at a site that espouses the destruction of my identity, as even-handedly as the preservation of it? If we don't stick-up for what is ours, here, then where? Who speaks for us? Would the Jews/Americans/French take very kindly if they were asked to relinquish their Jewishness/American values/French traditions ? The ADL would be all over the place !! (c) I believe in collective responsibility (that is our tradition), and so I certainly don't intend to hang everything on the administrators (and certainly not you) - but I think there are bounds even to free-speech. When free-speech borders on the inflammatory, and questions our very existence - then we should have the freedom to protest, editorialize, and SQUELCH! I am sorry too, SilverFox - but I grow very disillusioned ...
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