--- "D'Souza, Avelino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario, > The caste system, in your own words, has been around 5,000 years. I think it does have legitimacy and respect from people who practice and who are keen in keeping it alive. On the other hand, you don't want to explain to me "the pros and cons of the caste system" for reasons best known to you. BTW, your Arab friends particularly the Palestinians are admirers of Nazi-ism. They are waiting for the second coming of Hitler. Are neo-Nazis capable of helping the cause of Palestinians?
Mario replies: Avelino, do you even understand what you are writing? The 5,000 years refers to Hindus. Christ preached that everyone was the same. Did you even get this part of your catechism? Goans have been Christian for up to 450 years or so. There are NO pros to castism, man, unless you can find "pros" in discriminating against people for reasons they cannot control like color and caste. What is the matter with you? Since you are such a proponent of castism maybe you should tell us the "pros" that you see in it. I have Palestinian friends and business clients, but I oppose most of what their militants believe about their "rights" in Palestine, other than what they can peacefully negotiate with Israel. It is only their extremists who have something in common with the Nazis, which is to commit genocide against Jews. And what does Palestine have to do with the Goan Catholic caste system? All we anti-castists want is for Catholics who still follow the caste system to realize how wrong and destructive and anti-Christian this system is. Avelino writes: > Your remark "I am headed in the opposite direction" baffles me. Are you saying you are running away from caste system? Mario replies: Since you are "baffled" with our opposition to discrimination, there is little that will not "baffle" you. You seem chronically baffled. I am NOT running away from anything, including the caste system and some crazy Goanetters. I am confronting it and it's apologists and trying to get those who are not baffled to oppose it as I do.