Fanning the flames of discontent
August 23, 2006
With an illustrated depiction of Angkor Wat turned upside down, is the Phnomenon web site an example of a dumb foreigner too arrogant to grasp the complexities of Khmer culture? Or is it just a case of over-sensitive Khmers suffering from a collective inferiority complex getting their kramas in a wad over some imagined slight?
Is posing such a question just a cheap way for Vireak to juice the number of hits at Khemera’s Corner? Is rephrasing Vireak’s question to be even more incendiary and with the same hope of juicing hits to your own blog just as cheap? Or cheaper?
Who knows? But if the idea is to pose some incredibly inflammatory question with the hope of generating a comment war, requiring people to sign up for an e-mail-verified account before they can post seems like a poor way of fanning the flames.
Afterall, if you wanted to pour fuel on the fire and say something completely foolish, ill-informed and juvenile, you wouldn’t really want to sign your name to it, now would ya?
August 23, 2006 at 12:03 pm
‘The Phnom Penh’ (now in Bangkok and on inactive duty)
http://thephnompenh.blogspot.com
put it best in an email:
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come and sit next to me.”
(Must google around for the cite.)
August 23, 2006 at 1:53 pm
When i posted the article, I had no intention for it to appear in the news. Nor did I want to juice up the number of hits especially from non-khmers. I just wanted to find out opinions from my friends and fellow khmer members. KhemaraCorner is not designed for non-khmers. That’s why we don’t allow free comments.
I don’t put myself into arguing which is cheap or cheaper. I respect other bloggers’ work and opinions the same way that I respect Phnomenon’s researches into Khmer food.
Thanks for your commentary.