Re: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read]

Robert Jung wrote:
>
> On 1 Dec 2003, Roger Mills <romilly@EGL.NET <mailto:romilly@...>>
> wrote:
>
>  > I somehow ended up on the home page of the site, before
>  > finding the anti-S
>  > screed.  There is much mention of Sudra this-and-
>  > that, and even more anti-brahminism, so I assume the
>  > thing is the product of some Sudra politicking.  (Sudra, as
>  > we will recall, is the Caste Formerly Known as
>  > Untouchable.)
>
> My response was to say that anti-Untouchability [anti-sudraism] (and
> anti-castism) are good things; cast systems are another form of
> discrimination. That was my point.
Nobody was saying they weren't, so your post sort of came out of the
blue. The criticisms of that page centered on how the claims seemed to
be based more on the author's political agenda than linguistics.