Sunday, February 11, 2007

Labels

"Once you label me you negate me." I came across this quote by Soren Kierkegaard a few days back. Even though I understood then what it meant, the real significance comes to me only now. Amir Khan is 'anti-dam' and 'anti-gujarat'. And protesting students are selfishly 'elitist' and ‘anti-affirmative action’. Period. Guilty as charged. There's no hiding place. No matter Amir never said anything that could be even remotely considered anti-dam, by people of reasonable intelligence, I mean. No matter none of the protesting bodies has questioned the idea of affirmative action, but all concerned only question the implementation.

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