The Enraged Dandy (TED) believes he or she is the best thing to happen to modern ‘leftist’ activism after Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and (for some odd reason), Jerry Seinfeld.
The men among TED spent this year as they usually do, and that is, by repeatedly signing off their arguments by quoting that same Voltaire quote over and over again:
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”
When that didn’t work, they began quoting Rumi. Something about sprit, soul, sky, sea, chicken and egg. They could have just said, ‘Omelettes,’ and been done with it.
The women among TED spent the year exhibiting their radical feminist sentiments, even to the extent of insisting that dahi hoti hai , instead of dahi hota hai . This was the great feminist debate of the year 2015.
Both genders of TED seemed rather confused in 2015. For example, last year they had passionately criticised the military and the government for not launching an operation against extremist outfits.
When the operation was finally launched, TED accused the military and the government for sending the arrested militants to the gallows. They thought it was barbaric to send them to the gallows. But when the authorities didn’t arrest a nut spouting hatred in Islamabad, they criticised the military and the government for not arresting him … and sending him to the gallows.
On Twitter, when finally a perplexed man asked what on earth they exactly want, they responded by saying: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.” They then blocked him.
Nevertheless, there, indeed were many days in 2015 when TED stood up for some noble causes. However, 16 December was not that day.
On that day, as if on cue, they decided to bring up the 1971 East Pakistan debacle. It’s another thing that till they went to college, none of them even knew that Bangladesh was once East Pakistan and East Pakistan became Bangladesh. But no worries, as long as talking about the debacle made them sound ‘anti-establishment’ — just like Jerry Seinfeld.
When confronted by those who saw through the facade, TED was profound in their response: “You ISI stooges, dahi hota nahi, hoti hai !”
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