Bigotry at silly point
Mukul Kesavan, writing in the Hindustan Times , looks back at the Dean Jones controversy and advocates a policy of zero tolerance.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Mukul Kesavan, writing in the Hindustan Times, looks back at the Dean Jones controversy and advocates a policy of zero tolerance.
The reason ‘kike’, ‘faggot’ and ‘nigger’ are taboo today is because public opinion backed up by social sanction made them unsayable ... Roebuck and Border and cricket’s commentariat seem to think calling a bearded Muslim a ‘terrorist’ doesn’t belong in the same category of proscribed words. Well, it’s up to us to persuade them that it does, through a policy of zero tolerance.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo