Cite your source please. My impression is that the analysis stretches an equivalence beyond the limits and doesn't seem to fully appreciate European history. I'm not going to comment on Indian history because it's not an area I've studied. m Sources without footnotes or inline references are not go...

Please share your thoughts on this analysis: While the origin of the caste system appears to be racial (as mentioned above) it subsequently developed an altogether different basis according to the needs of the feudal society in India. In other words, the caste system, though originating in race, su...

We get those Indian marriage sites in Brazil too m BTW What is caste ? India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on their karma (work) and dharma (the Hindi word for religion, but h...

I just read William Deresiewicz's piece, " On Political Correctness: Power, class, and the new campus religion " in The American Scholar . He highlights the code of self-censorship that has infested academia. Twenty years ago it was worth discussing the ideas that are now ascendant. Back t...

I keep tabs with both places open and post wherever I feel like. I also lament the loss of so much of the old WS content. We were perfectly content to upload the content back to the community under the wikipediasucks "community" brand (we estimate we have 50%+ of WS-1) but unfortunately s...

Softlavendar manages to insert herself in wiki-drama constantly. I don't know if she's still documenting her drama-to-do-lists in drafts on WP or not.

Is this forum going stale? I think this place is more secure and less liable to be shut down by a capricious service provider like Proboard. I wish the some of the old stuff from the suck board could have been saved and put here. Any rate... just my thoughts. I keep tabs with both places open and p...

It's been widely reported that the original source for Trump's wiretapping lie was a piece in Louise Mensch's website HeatStreet , itself quoting two anonymous sources in US counter-terrorism (ironic given Trump's complaint about anonymous sources). It's curious therefore that Mensch's Wikipedia BL...

It's been widely reported that the original source for Trump's wiretapping lie was a piece in Louise Mensch's website HeatStreet , itself quoting two anonymous sources in US counter-terrorism (ironic given Trump's complaint about anonymous sources). It's curious therefore that Mensch's Wikipedia BL...

It's been widely reported that the original source for Trump's wiretapping lie was a piece in Louise Mensch's website HeatStreet , itself quoting two anonymous sources in US counter-terrorism (ironic given Trump's complaint about anonymous sources). It's curious therefore that Mensch's Wikipedia BL...