tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post6493437488136241075..comments2024-03-29T04:21:18.218-07:00Comments on dhamma musings: Making A Monkey Of HimShravasti Dhammikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-47304567698415547562009-11-08T14:16:02.063-08:002009-11-08T14:16:02.063-08:00It wasn't an offense, the monkey was to depict...It wasn't an offense, the monkey was to depict the US Congress as being ran by a bunch of wild monkeys.<br /><br />Anyway, about Obama, which human being is so full of vanity and conceit as Obama? Obama is extremely arrogant, proud and boastful. I am glad he is not doing so well in the job he boasted a year ago as being this great hope who will heal the world as some kind of secular messiah. So much hot air from a politician!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12017893275322150171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-18465675492749550062009-02-20T08:40:00.000-08:002009-02-20T08:40:00.000-08:00Dear Konchog,You are quite right in saying that I ...Dear Konchog,<BR/>You are quite right in saying that I am making light of the matter - but only in the first part of my post. In the second part I am actually attempting (desperately and perhaps unsuccessfully) to salvage at least something positive in the miserable affair. I am 'just a simple monk' but I'm not that simple that I don’t understand the deep offence caused and perhaps even intended. I take full cognizance of your comment about 'timing.' There are times (or situations) where even humor should keep its mouth closed and let seriousness deal with the situation. And you are right in saying that this is one of them.Shravasti Dhammikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-54829618114787535062009-02-20T05:36:00.000-08:002009-02-20T05:36:00.000-08:00Just so everyone knows what cartoon is being refer...Just so everyone knows what cartoon is being referred to here:<BR/><BR/>http://pics.livejournal.com/vegan27/pic/000d8ayyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-60657315858259928702009-02-20T04:26:00.000-08:002009-02-20T04:26:00.000-08:00Bhante-la: I know you're trying to make light of t...Bhante-la: I know you're trying to make light of this, and that we Americans are a constant source of amusement to you, but try to understand that racial sensitivities are still pretty raw in my country. African Americans were constitutionally defined as 3/5 of a person until our Civil War, and civil rights protests as recently as 1968 featured a slogan worn by the black protesters insisting "I Am A Man." Obviously, with the election of Obama and other signs, we're evolving beyond the several hundred years of our history in which most of the majority white population deemed the minority black population somehow subhuman. Unfortunately we still have pockets of white supremacists who promote this dismal point of view.<BR/><BR/>Put the shoe on the other foot: let's say Australia elected its first Aboriginal Prime Minister and The Age printed a cartoon hinting his actions made him seem like some sort of drunken caveman. You think people would just laugh that off?<BR/><BR/>The secret of comedy, of course, is timing. Categorizing an ancient Egyptian mummy as dried fish? Funny (except, perhaps, for the arrogant British theft of other nations' antiquities). Suggesting in a major paper like the New York Post that the first sitting African-American president in an historically slave-holding country, in which its most iconic civil rights leader was assassinated not so long ago, is an out-of-control monkey that needs to be shot? Not so funny.Konchoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520077044824861391noreply@blogger.com