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Bigot's New Look
Yes sir, what this country needs is another burst of that good oil' fashion bigotry that made the U.S. what it is today. It might have been anarchy, but at least it was sincere!
Most likely you haven't burned a barn or wrecked a newspaper press this week. No one seems to have the oil' fire any more. Why once Americans would dress up like Indians and dump tea in Boston Harbor or lynch a Negro from a lamp post. Not any more—alas America!
It's called—"Well I know they're right, but would you want one living next door to you?"
BUT, YOU SEE, the roots of that glorious bigotry are still here, but it has taken a new, twentieth-century form.
It's called—I think that they are just naturally better musicians and athletes—comes naturally from their heritage."
It's called—"Why certainly we ought to have one in our club. Everybody will see him and we won't need to let in any more."
IT'S CALLED BY many names, but its most prominent symptom is found in people who are fond of making easy generalities. It's a prejudice against thinking things through logically because of the siren song of a generality that just naturally seems true.
Today people are afraid of the label "bigot" because it has its own uncomplimentary stereotype of the red neck, the red man chewing tobacco, and the shotgun.
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Yet it is a classification that should be broadly extended beyond just the volatile civil rights area.
Bigotry is found in most of the do-good, think-little groups and societies all over this nation who are always trying to do "right." In other words, they're trying to categorize and simplify, not to understand. Woe unto all of those who stand in the way of their "right."
ALL THESE IDEAS are probably rooted on those solid American rock-throwing, clubwielding mob instincts that most people have, but manage to subdue.
Neo-bigotry is different than its older, more sincere form in that it has certain positive features that the older form missed.
A neo-bigot is a sucker for both positive and negative generalities. He trusts the man who eats bagels, pizza, or hominy grits—whichever the prejudice may be.
He is always on the lookout for heresy. To uncover a heresy is more important than to solve a problem. Yet his bigotry is of a special, good natured kind.
He votes for the man who mouthes what is comforting to his ear—about God, mother, the flag, apple pie, and puppies with long, floppy ears.
IT DOES NOT BURN buildings. It does not seek the violent act, it simply acts as a brake to progress. This kind of bigot has been told that all worthwhile things are deceptively simple. If something is not simple, it must not be worthwhile. If there is no ultimate answer, there is no answer for him.
His biggest weapon is the blank expression and the words, "Well, that's not the way it should be done because I don't think it seems right" or "That's not the way we used to do it." His is a sin of omission, not commission like his father and grandfather.
Bigot is an ugly word. Perhaps I am grossly over-using it, but what else can be used to describe the people who hold up social progress? They are more dangerous than the honest reactionaries who preach on the street corners, because they are more numerous. Their view is also much more respected than the undignified un-reason of rabble-rousers.
POLITICIANS AND ad men are responsible for pandering to the stereotype devices which win over the bigots by capitalizing on their lack of reason, but can we really blame them? Generalities are probably older than Coca-Cola or the Cabot-Lodges.
But all you folks out there really don't need to worry none about the onslaught of a little bit of plain ol' Americana. This good ol' motherlovin' journalist behind the keyboard of this here typewriter has your best interest in mind.
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make ye free." And I've heard that anybody that doesn't believe in truth and a free press—well, he'd probably plead the Fifth Amendment before The House Un-American Activities Committee or something.
Terry Joslin
University Forum Pakistani View
India and Pakistan are engaged in a war over the disputed territory of Kashmir—a war that the world press has unanimously called a war of "mutual destruction." This indeed it is. However, this suicidal conflict is not of Pakistan's choosing. It was imposed on her. The question why India should have attacked Pakistan at this time is a pertinent one and demands an answer. Happily, the answer is not difficult to find.
1. AFTER THE DEATH of Nehru, India has not been able to find its political moorings. The present prime minister of India is one who could not possibly replace a Nehru. Shastri appears to be a weak, indecisive man who has succumbed to the blandishments of extremist groups in India—and in that unfortunate country there are many such groups. What can one expect from a "leader" of a country who tries to solve complicated problems by weeping?
2. ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES of India do not require much elaboration. India has always been presented as a classic example of poverty and human degradation. In this country of lean men, fat cows, and well nourished monkeys, street demonstrations by the teeming millions simply for the purpose of obtaining food are a common phenomenon. The Indian rulers find it easy to control their hungry, illiterate, and disease-ridden masses by diverting their attention toward a supposed external "enemy." This is the familiar whipping-boy technique.
3. WE ALL KNOW that in 1962 the Indian army was humiliated by the Chinese. For the Indian war lords, the brief encounter with Pakistani soldiers in the desolate Rann of Kutch was, at least, less than flattering. An army of one million men, which for 18 long years had been sapping the meager resources of an extremely poor country, had to justify its parasitic existence. An attack on Pakistan became a necessity.
4. EVER SINCE ITS existence, India, despite her sermons about peaceful co-existence and non-violence, has persistently used force to settle disputes. It seems as if war and brute force are an instrument of Indian national policy. Examples of Junagadh, Hyderabad, Goa, Kashmir and now Pakistan are too obvious to need emphasis here. It may be indicative of Hindu mentality that India becomes increasingly belligerent when confronted with small neighbors, such as Ceylon, Burma, Nepal and Pakistan, but sheepishly preaches the virtues of non-violence in the presence of Big Brother from the north.
5. INDIAN RULERS have not yet reconciled themselves to the existence of Pakistan as a sovereign state. For these—the Mahashas—, vivisection of Bharat Mata was sacrilegious. They would like to see Pakistan eliminated from the
world map. Akhund Bharat (United India) is a slogan for several political parties in India.
The immediate pretext for Indian attack on Pakistan was provided by a popular uprising in occupied Kashmir against Indian oppression. The people of Kashmir—their leaders in Indian jails, their liberties crushed with Indian bayonets, promises of plebiscite made to them by the U.N., India, and Pakistan, completely broken by India—have had enough of Hindu tyranny. The Indian reaction against the forces of freedom in Kashmir quite easily reminds us of the Russian brutality in Hungary in 1956.
THE INDIAN AGGRESSION against Pakistan on September 6 may have been as sudden, cowardly, and treacherous as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Pakistan has all along thought that one day India would attack her. That has now come to pass. Besides the reasons for Indian attack indicated earlier, one more can be added. The Indians were trying to draw a lesson from their own experience with the Chinese. They were aiming to deliver one major blow, thereby humbling Pakistan and exacting her acceptance of India's forceable occupation of Kashmir. But have they been successful?
India's attack on Pakistan has only strengthened the determination of the people of Pakistan and Kashmir to press for a plebiscite. India has dishonored her pledge to the people of Kashmir, and to the world community. Pakistan shall honor it.
One shudders to contemplate the long range results and implications of India's war on Pakistan. Smaller countries are no longer safe from attacks of larger neighbors. India has given a shattering blow to the artificial facade of Afro-Asian unity. Diplomatically, India stands isolated. One might wonder whether any country in the world supports her imperialistic adventures in Kashmir. One fruitful outcome of the India-Pakistan conflict has been that from now on the world may be spared the incessant Indian moralizing about non-violence and peaceful coexistence. The world has now seen India in her real garb.
Pakistan's future path is clear. She will continue to support the forces of freedom wherever they exist. She will defend her independence with increasing confidence and courage. She will fight Indian tyranny in Kashmir; if necessary for years and if necessary alone. The struggle for Kashmir's liberation is not over; it has just begun.
— Rab Malik
Pakistan graduate student
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