On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Adam Peake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:13 AM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Anyway, why this pre-occupation with one perhaps infelicitous turn of <br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> (journalistic/diplomatic?) phrase ...<br>
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</div>Because it's not true, and anyone who has been on this list and/or<br>
read one or two news articles would know it's not true. Or, someone<br>
could go to the transcripts of the meeting and it would be perfectly<br>
clear. Parminder makes the claim throughout the article, so hardly<br>
an accident. As we know from his usual bile against anything<br>
"northern", it looks pretty deliberate.<br>
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This is an OpEd in a major newspaper. The Indian government said they<br>
will hold a public consultation about the outcome of WICT and whether<br>
the country should sign etc. Clearly it's in this context Parminder's<br>
writing. <br></blockquote></div><br>Even if the above strings of inferences regarding Parminder's authorship are assumed correct, those attacking Parminder engage in a form of the same thing Parminder stands accused of: <br>
<br>On one hand, in a "zeal" to attack things "northern", Parminder may have made a factually incorrect assertion, if he is the author. <br clear="all">On the other hand, in a zeal to make a sustained attack the southern Parminder, others strain civility past the breaking point. (I'll not repeat the names used here...)<br>
<br>Of the two, it is easier to correct and repair a factual misstatement than it is to correct and repair civility. Such factual repairs need not consist of hauling someone before a worldwide listserv repeatedly, until some demanded admission of correct fact is publicly made.<br>
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