x-posted to my own journal. "Where are the liberal Desis??"

[gayathri]

Have any of you all heard of Dinesh D'Souza? Apparently from Mumbai but moved to the US and became apparently a right wing, conservative neo-con hack.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070205/pollitt

his latest book apparently states that: "9/11 was provoked by feminism, birth control, abortion, pornography, feminism, Hollywood, divorce, the First Amendment, gay marriage, and did I mention feminism?"

My favorite: "As for the veil, he approvingly quotes Sudanese radical cleric Hassan Turabi, who claims it lets women be seen as human beings." um. yea. sure. You men are SO pathetic and driven by hormones, that we women have to hide under ugly sacks so you wont lose control. (Please dont take that to mean I dont think women should veil, but it ought to be their choice, not forced on them.)

Comments

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Hell yes I've heard of Dinesh "No quotas" D'Souza. Where've you been?

He's crazier than a shithouse rat. I fully expect he's gonna get arrested some day for exposing himself to an underaged labradoodle while under the influence of paint thinner.

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

I'd heard of him first when he came on the Colbert Report with his previous book and thought, "Man, we desis have to get our acts together and quit sending the idiots up on stage," but the sad reality is that many of the immigrants who come here are very conservative -- I thought my folks were the norm, but they arent! Its a very small group of Indians who were born in India that are liberal...

In particular, from his website:
Colonialism? D'Souza, an immigrant from India, gives two cheers for British colonialism, pointing out that while it was degrading for the colonized, their sons and daughters are the beneficiaries of Western law, culture, education, opportunity, and prosperity.

so how 'bout, if I promise to be nice to your kids, I take away your culture, religion, land, wealth, government, everything... (and maybe I'll be nice to your grandkids instead.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the phrase that came to mind when I first heard of D'Souza was "house nigger".

(Yeah, I'm white, but I can still recognize the behavior, I don't like it, and I don't in the last like it that white people created the situation that created the breed.)

As a survivor of suck, I can understand looking back on a sucky history and deciding that I wouldn't want to trade my life (I think you have to have been there to get that feeling at all). But that's deciding that for my life. I can't imagine looking back on a couple centuries of oppression of my whole people and saying (considering my own not-too-bad current situation) that it was all for the best.

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the phrase that came to mind when I first heard of D'Souza was "house nigger".

TOTALLY

I can't beleive he'd make such a completely ridiculous statement -- how _dare_ he make such a generalization for the rest of us!? Yes, we as individuals can make our own determinations, but its the height of hubris to make it for 'all our people'.

Grr! argh!