Post by Kal_1993 on Mar 19, 2017 4:16:54 GMT
She was using these sentences in a very different context in her book, The God of Small Things.
But i think they perfectly fit Hindus today after years and years of battering Hindus suffered and yet put on defensive even today.
Hindus may not be victims by today's liberal definition of victimhood but they certainly were not the perpetrators, more times than not.
But i think they perfectly fit Hindus today after years and years of battering Hindus suffered and yet put on defensive even today.
Or purchase, for a fee, some cheap brand of exorcism from a counselor with a fancy degree, who would sit them down and say, in one of many ways: “You’re not the Sinners. You’re the Sinned Against. You had no control. You are the victims , not the perpetrators.”
It would have helped if they could have made that crossing. If only they could have worn, even temporarily, the tragic hood of victimhood. Then they would have been able to put a face on it, and conjure up fury at what had happened. Or seek redress. And eventually, perhaps, exorcize the memories that haunted them.
But anger wasn’t available to them...
It would have helped if they could have made that crossing. If only they could have worn, even temporarily, the tragic hood of victimhood. Then they would have been able to put a face on it, and conjure up fury at what had happened. Or seek redress. And eventually, perhaps, exorcize the memories that haunted them.
But anger wasn’t available to them...
Hindus may not be victims by today's liberal definition of victimhood but they certainly were not the perpetrators, more times than not.