So last night I was reading the what civilizations practiced human sacrifice thread, when I can upon TygerBryght’s little bit of speculation. His (I’m assuming TygerBryght is a he and if I’m wrong I honestly don’t care) post seemed to be born out of genuine concern, but had some major factual errors and was in my opinion quite wrong through and through. This seems to be a topic he considers important (read: will likely run at the mouth about it in some future, more sensitive situation- perhaps with his Hindu “best friends”) and I figured it’d be good to at least give him the resources for making an informed argument.
So I spent half an hour researching the names of two very good books on the subject that I read years ago. His references to student term papers and a broken link to a Pakistani news site (which is going to be about as objective as a Palestinian observation of the nature of Judaism) were frankly an embarrasment- especially given that there are countless good sources out there on the net.
I wake up this morning to this little gem
Okay, bub. So what your saying is you are ignorant and intend to stay that way. That doesn’t cut it around here. I’m sure you are going to come on and say that you got a masters in “gender relations in India.” Well, you still know jack about the subject. Hey- thats okay, I barely know jack either. I don’t even have any “Hindu best friends.” So if someone corrects me or leads me to more information, I thank them for teaching me something.
Frankly someone who feels like blabbering about a subject while refusing to actually learn something because of some personal beef isn’t a good PhD candidate.
I love the last part though. I mispelled his name as TygerBryte. Hey, maybe I like the idea of a tygerbryte- like a lite-brite but more dangerous. I’ve been called all kinds of mispellings on this board- “even seven”, “even steven”- and never once did it ever occur to me to be offended. I’m sorry, Mr. Bryght, if you are so increadable lame that a mispelling offends you. Your life is bound to be a hard one full of frusteration.
You have learned a valuable lesson. At last count, there were 8,268,351 places on the internet where you can spend valuable time on a well intentioned explanation, only to have some doofus shrug it off because they can’t be arsed to question their own viewpoint. Great Debates is just one such place. Be thankful it only cost you half an hour.
So, TygerBryght posts something that, according to the OP, “had some major factual errors and was … quite wrong through and through.” And instead of correcting those major factual errors in the thread, where everyone reading it could learn something, she just links to a book?
Yup, after reading the posts in question, I’m going to have to say you’ve got your sensitivity meter set a little too high today, even sven. I don’t even know what you two were “arguing” about - you both seemed to be saying the same thing, that sati is indeed practiced in India and it’s bad.
Nevertheless, the spelling comment was slightly snarky, as there was no sign that even sven misspelled his name on purpose. If you name yourself “*tygerbryght” or whatever, you have to expect the occasional misspelling.
I didn’t want to pull a GQ question in to GD territory. TB said he knew his position was controversial and I respect that that thread wasn’t the place to argue about it. But overall it was so condenscending (“I think Hindus are civilized…really I do! Some of my best friends are Hindus!”) and ill informed and I hoped that maybe TiggerBrioche could learn something- and the complications and nuances of another cultures are something that it takes more than a webpage to learn. Anyway, he could have just ignored my suggestions. But instead he decided to tell me why he doesn’t research the stuff he’s talking about and snark on my (self-admitted) horrible spelling. I still think he’s an ass.
