Author: Vikrant Malvankar
Date: 00:40:20 02/04/05
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On February 04, 2005 at 03:28:38, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On February 04, 2005 at 02:56:26, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>The moderators recently received a post from a young man who made a very >>convincing argument that we should not allowed CCC members to call another CCC >>member "swami". >> >>The argument is that it was degrading and insulting to those members who come >>from India. The question was raised if would we allow other ethnic groups to >>be simliarly harassed. >> >>For example, without going into all the specific examples, would we allow any >>ethnic group to be harras in a similiar fashion? The answer is no. Mitigating >>this somewhat, we did have a member named "swami" who became infamous for trying >>to obtain engines illegally. I believe most of the references were made to >>those who posted like "swami" and not becauae a member was from India. >>Nonetheless, new members do not understand the "swami" history and we should >>stop it. Our members from India find this "swami" name calling degrading. >>Would we allow people to call our members , kraut, nazi, kite, hunky,dago,polak >>etc. The answer is no and we should not longer allow "swami" either. >> >>So I'm asking everyone to simply stop calling any member "swami" - although I >>realize the tempation is there, it is simply not the right way for us to treat >>our fellow CCC Indian members. >> >>Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. >> >>Best, >> >>Michael Byrne > >I've never used the term, but your post made me curious and I decided to look up >the term: > >http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=swami > >I see little indication that the term is derogatory. In fact, rather the >opposite according to the above link. If it is error, how so? without looking at the above link i can say that "swami" means sadhu or a spiritual person or a saint in India. The word here was used at a old user but new members take it as aimed at them(i certainly did and was quite annoyed that the word was used.). Again this morning Madhavan and i both were called swami and they thought we r the same persons nad all this is ridiculous. All I want to say is that u should not comment on something that u dont have proof against.(U dont have any proof that i m the old user who used to ask for illegal copies of engines, i never did that so why u label me "Swami" for no fault of mine's with that name?)
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