This one is queer.
Racial slur for the asians is a known, accepted fact. Recently some one in US made a comedy with Mahatma Gandhi. And there are countless offences to Indian Gods. Sometimes they have them on the shoes, napkins, comods and what not. Then why the recent slur on Shipa Shetty has attracted so much of attention ?

Is India Rising and no more the meek contender who would take things lying back ?

Opinions are invited, besides I am an Indian .

So my views are here.

Shilpa should be more proactive in action rather than words. If She says she is only asking for respectfully talking to her, and if someone doesnt, what need is there to act nice in front of these racist people. aah.. if its for money, she is fit to be called dog.

regards

This post has been edited by saneax: Jan 18 2007, 05:49 AM

The very first line in your post could have offended multiple people who are lesbian/gay. Since I don't know anything about the even that you're talking about, I can't really comment on it. I just think it's weird that you want to discuss people's reaction to racial slurs, etc., and you started your post off with saying something that could have been taken offensive by a whole different group of people.

@Leafbunk, though it might be offensive, I'm not sure he quite meant it that way. I myself never knew queer had this other meaning; I always thought it meant "weird" and used it as so until some people told me otherwise.

As for saneax, perhaps you could link to an article talking about this Shilpa Shetty's actions? Perhaps that way I'd be able to comment a bit more, as you're current comments don't really provide enough information for me to elaborate.

According to what you say about her "being nice towards racists", I suppose there really isn't anything wrong with. What's wrong with her being nice? Does she have to be utterly angry and hurt others with her words? I really don't think hurting others will get anywhere. Racist people will just get more angry and think even lower of your race as a whole (because they're used to generalizing). If she wants to be nice, that's a good thing as that shows she's better than the rest of them--she has lofty ideals and is willing to sacrifice her pride to achieve them. Insulting her for being nice is really not justified.

Oh, and by the way, I'm not really sure if that offense to Indian gods is really an "offense" so to speak. It may be just that those film makers no absolutely nothing about the traditions of India and the amount of respect with which they treat their gods. If you don't know a culture well enough and try to make a movie off of it, you're obviously going to mess up at some point or another. In that movie's case, it just happen to take a turn for the worse and become offensive.

EDIT: Alright, I've just read a Wikipedia article on Shetty, and yeah, the racism directed against is quite horrible. But her reaction is truly honorable. Even if she did it for money--it still helps others set things right. If it had been me, I'm sure I would've performed random acts of violence against those who insulted me. But she's obviously not so unforgiving. Hate begets hate, no? The less hate the better, and she's directing us that way.

@ leafbunk..



I did not try to mean in the sense you have understood. Queer is also meaning strange. So my reference was for the strange event.. (here are the links 1, 2, 3, 4)

here is youtube video

on the word 'queer' here is the wikipedia, I too came to know that it also is a slang towards gay/lesbians. so I am sorry

The point is an underlying feeling by asians and blacks, against racial abuse. I don't know if people who are native to the place and are white feel the same.. but asians with colored skin do have a problem. There are countless abuses, violence against the Asians, however, since most of us come over to the western world to earn, there is an underlying fear.

@arbitary

thanks for the explaination, I was bombed to hear I was abusing ..