{"id":493,"date":"2008-02-19T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2008\/02\/19\/political-incorrectness-gone-wild\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:48:42","slug":"political-incorrectness-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/political-incorrectness-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Incorrectness Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Bombay colleges are appealing to their students to refrain from making ethnic jokes, what with the inflamed situation:<\/p>\n

Several colleges \u2014 probably the city\u2019s most multicultural hubs \u2014 have informally cautioned students to go easy on community remarks, which would otherwise mean nothing more than harmless jokes and jibes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students are very young and have no malice. Since we have a huge mix of students, it is important to be careful,\u201d said MB Madlani, principal of Raheja College, Santacruz. \u201cTeachers have informally talked about the issue and our students have responded maturely.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Hindustan Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is all well and good. Especially because this appears to be a\u00a0sensible discussion of risks\u00a0rather than a blanket ban, which is quite surprising for Indian education. But what to make of this quote?<\/p>\n

\n

Sociologist Nandini Sardesai said the caution is demographically defined. \u201cColleges in areas like Parel, Shivaji Park and Dadar should be more cautious. India, including Mumbai, has a tendency to be communal at every level, be it religious or regional.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am enraged. How dare this so-called sociologist draw these invidious distinctions between the various regions of Mumbai? Where does this Colaba-prancing, Marine Drive-promenading, Cathedral-types socialite get off claiming that Goregaon types1<\/sup> are more prone to violence than she is? This is regionalism of the worst sort. Someone should advise her to avoid unnecessary remarks.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>:For the benefit of new readers, IIM-B racism splits Maharashtrians into Cathedral Types (those who live in Bombay south of Mumbai Central), and Goregaon types (everyone else).<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Bombay colleges are appealing to their students to refrain from making ethnic jokes, what with the inflamed situation: Several colleges \u2014 probably the city\u2019s most multicultural hubs \u2014 have informally cautioned students to go easy on community remarks, which would otherwise mean nothing more than harmless jokes and jibes.\u00a0 \u201cThe students are very young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,35,50],"tags":[410,503,599,747,899,976,1338,1365,1447,1478,1479,1499,1619,1688,1795,1802,1838,1948,2023],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlatans","category-racism","category-weirder-than-fiction","tag-cathedral-types","tag-colaba","tag-dadar","tag-ethnic-joke","tag-goregaon-types","tag-hindustan-times","tag-maharashtra-navnirman-sena","tag-marine-drive","tag-mns","tag-mumbai","tag-mumbai-central","tag-nandini-sardesai","tag-parel","tag-political-correctness","tag-raheja-college","tag-raj-thackeray","tag-regionalism","tag-santa-cruz","tag-shivaji-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-7X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}