The absolute disclaimer
How do I make sure people don’t accuse me of being biased? Simple! I dispel the notion that I am unbiased; because honestly, I am not.
Like many so-called educated people, I have deluded myself and those around me by imagining myself to be unbiased. But I want you to know, right now, that I am not. In fact, I am quite severely biased in favour of certain ideologies and violently opposed to some others.
I am against those who tell me how to lead my life. I don’t care about their culture and religion. Mine allows me go to pubs, drink, mingle with members of the opposite sex, and celebrate Valentine’s Day.
I am against those who support violence against women. No matter how ‘Indian’ or holy they claim their reasons to be.
I am also against violence as a way of protest. If you need to hurt people in order to have your voice heard, you don’t deserve any attention.
I am not proud of being an Indian or being a Hindu. I am however, very proud of India and Hinduism. Those who don’t understand the difference can either ask me or go do strange things to themselves.
There was a time, when I used to take the above things for granted. I assumed they constituted good sense and morality. Not any more. A line has been drawn and a side needs to be chosen. So here I am, making my stand.
Excellent and refreshing – although I feel the post defeats itself somewhat. The word bias has so many negative connotations – bigoted and discriminatory amongst them – that I think you have proved yourself to not to be biased but rather someone who has taken an intelligent stand AGAINST the common biases of our time. The world needs more Vimohs!
Nik Payton
2 Mar 09 at 9:18 am
and to think of it, what is the definition of bias, it is afterall, someone’s verdict.
brijesh
3 Mar 09 at 9:35 am
Don’t blame yourself pal. There are many people who are biased towards some ideologies that they like. This is the basic human nature. So don’t think about these things
Narendra.s.v
14 Mar 09 at 3:04 am
Rants! Why think of things that others do and promote? Live a good principled life. That’s all there is to it. And offcourse everyone has opinions and views and biases.
Just chill m8
Squid
20 Apr 09 at 1:12 am