Agreed. I read “true people” the way others seem to, but a missing comma makes sense too. Regardless your original point is still valid.
ISTM that one has to be really trying (to put the worst construction on that post) to parse it that way. For that to work, he’d be implying that he, a speaker of Hindi, is NOT a true person.
Just consider it as a punctuation fail. It’s so much simpler.
(Full disclosure: I found the sentence jarring myself for a few seconds, before I thought to mentally add the comma.)
Maybe. But I think smapti, myself, and others are taking into account his full posting history not just that one post. And the truly damning part isn’t the ‘true people’ remark, it’s the use of the word ‘brown’.
Consider this: if a random American citizen came up to you and described themselves as a ‘white Christian’ what would be your first assumption about that?
They’re voting for Trump.
You’ll get no argument from me that he’s a whackadoodle segregationist, and very likely a bigot to boot. I’m only pushing back on the notion of that one sentence being a supporting data point for that analysis.
Fair enough. I will agree with that.
Mine goes right in the spam folder. Take that, Cecil!
In the United States I’ve generally seen “brown” being used to distinguish from “white”. I thought the poster was trying to say that they’re not generally taken for white, and to claim that they’ve been discriminated against for being “brown”. But I have no idea what the usage is in India.
There was plenty of other reason to ban that poster, though.
Can you really call it a hive mind if you have to use memos?
Clearly, we communicate using a figure 8 waggle dance.
FWIW, Gujurati is the predominant language in the north-west province of Gujurat. This was where Mahatma Ghandi’s ashram was. He, himself, probably spoke Hindi but dual language in that area would be rare, and tend towards English.
India is a complex country, in many, many ways.