[Reader-list] ..and these newspapers say Australians are racist

[Sudeep K S]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Sudeep
>
> Your explanations and references notwithstanding, I still do not see
> anything RACIST in the cartoon strip.
>
> Kshmendra
>

Ok.. let us try to come to a common platform before arguing over a word.
What do you mean by the word RACIST? According to you, what all would come
under racism?

After listening to your answer, I can try to explain better why I feel this
cartoon (and also many Delhiites' attitude towards 'South Indians' or many
Europeans' attitude towards Indians) is absolutely racist in nature. I would
also like to fight a case in the court, it is just that I do not have enough
money or time for that.

love
sudeep


> From: Sudeep K S <sudeep.ks at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] ..and these newspapers say Australians are
> racist
> To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: reader-list at sarai.net
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 2:23 PM
>
>
> Dear Kshemendra,
>
> 'Racism' is a broad term, and in this context, it refers to the
> cartoonists' definition of 'ugli'ness.
>
> Someone who does not look like 'our women' (the fair, and with whatever
> features that consitute 'beauty' in our people) gets classified as 'ugly'.
> This is not far from the discrimination and disrespect that Asians/Africans
> face for being 'dark-skinned' by fair-skinned people, or the deregatory
> 'South Indian / Madrasi' tag that some of us have to live with in Delhi.
>
> If you want more help on this, there is a cool 'racism primer' avilable on
> the net. Incidentally, this one is also a cartoon strip, and guess what,
> this was pubished by the European nations in their effort to raise awareness
> about racism.
>
> See the complete strip here:
>
> "What? Me? A Racist?"
>
> http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/Veil2000/multicult_france99/cartoon_raciste_en.pdf
>
> Regards
> Sudeep
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kshmendra2005@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
>>   The cartoon could be considered to be in bad taste wherein indirectly
>> the objectifying of women as "pretty things" is being promoted by mentioning
>> Mayawati as "ugly".
>>
>> But, what is racist about the cartoon?
>>
>> Kshmendra
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 9/16/09, Sudeep K S <sudeep.ks at gmail.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sudeep.ks@gmail.com>
>> >* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Sudeep K S <sudeep.ks at gmail.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sudeep.ks@gmail.com>
>> >
>> Subject: [Reader-list] ..and these newspapers say Australians are racist
>> To: reader-list at sarai.net<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=reader-list@sarai.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:21 AM
>>
>>  http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=738
>>
>>
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