Wednesday, June 11, 2003

"Yek seri javan e ehsasati ye shahrestani"

You may guess where this title is coming from. It is commented from HODER Persian blog. I do agree with the content of Hoder's posting about yesterday's riot in Tehran. It is not the time for these violent activities, the most important reason is that the conservative opponent is the master of that game and the civilized rational people are not. The other thing is that all kind of violent expression is going to damage the reformist cause and ...

Anyway what I wanted to say is that I did not like the kind of insulting language that Hoder had used by saying " Bunch of emotional countryside young fellows". Being Ehsasati or emotional is not bad at all specially for young people, it is their drive for pushing forward and it does not need to end up in violent behavior. I am not seeing anything wrong to be from countryside or a place other than Tehran either, as a mater of fact most Iranians are included in that category. The other thing is that most of the time guys who do not have anything to lose are most likely the ones who do engage in courageous undertakings ( any kind of civil polytical activity these days in Iran) which do not need to be violent at all. If the rioters can be generalized with terms and descriptions like emotional ,countryside and young, we should see these riots in other cities which are full of young emotional non Tehrani fellows. But they are happening in Tehran.
As a matter of fact It is very easy to brand people and judge them based on their background or appearance but it is much more positive to use a respectful language and start to look at things more deeply.

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