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You confuse the author's identification of this impulse with his holding that view. He identifies one reason why a large chunk of people might feel pride for t

You confuse the author's identification of this impulse with his holding that view. He identifies one reason why a large chunk of people might feel pride for their ancestors' subjugation of others. Should he not shine a light on it?

zzzeek 6y ago
certainly not a favorable light! the lack of ethics in this community is just depressing to me
- haecceity 6y ago
  I think he was being charitable. Not wanting to offend anyone. He ended like this So for British teachers wondering how to teach the subject, it is important to cite various perspectives, including, crucially, the perspectives of the colonised; not in a wholly arbitrary manner seeking to buttress this or that grand narrative, but in a way revealing the complexities and contradictions of Britain’s colonial encounter with Africa. which suggests he doesn't agree with their views. I think he is pretty neutral.
  - zzzeek 6y ago
    > Not wanting to offend anyone. he failed! suggesting the psychological appeal of knowing that I grew up in a town that was violently ripped from native americans makes me feel AWFUL, what kind of psychotic asshole do you need to be to actually know about the genocide you live on top of and then to feel pride in that? People are generally not bothered by their own colonialist history because they're shockingly ignorant of what it actually means to go somewhere and eradicate an entire culture. But to suggest that these people are actually intimitely aware of such conquest and that it there is "undeniable appeal" to feeling "proud" of that is revolting.
    - haecceity 6y ago
      But I don't think he's suggesting he's reporting his experience with Britons. I'm pretty sure they evade the bad parts of empire in their education. Just like the Civil Rights Movement is sanitized in US.
haecceity 6y ago
OP likes to feel the rush of shooting the messenger.

zzzeek 6y ago

certainly not a favorable light! the lack of ethics in this community is just depressing to me

haecceity 6y ago
I think he was being charitable. Not wanting to offend anyone. He ended like this So for British teachers wondering how to teach the subject, it is important to cite various perspectives, including, crucially, the perspectives of the colonised; not in a wholly arbitrary manner seeking to buttress this or that grand narrative, but in a way revealing the complexities and contradictions of Britain’s colonial encounter with Africa. which suggests he doesn't agree with their views. I think he is pretty neutral.
- zzzeek 6y ago
  > Not wanting to offend anyone. he failed! suggesting the psychological appeal of knowing that I grew up in a town that was violently ripped from native americans makes me feel AWFUL, what kind of psychotic asshole do you need to be to actually know about the genocide you live on top of and then to feel pride in that? People are generally not bothered by their own colonialist history because they're shockingly ignorant of what it actually means to go somewhere and eradicate an entire culture. But to suggest that these people are actually intimitely aware of such conquest and that it there is "undeniable appeal" to feeling "proud" of that is revolting.
  - haecceity 6y ago
    But I don't think he's suggesting he's reporting his experience with Britons. I'm pretty sure they evade the bad parts of empire in their education. Just like the Civil Rights Movement is sanitized in US.

haecceity 6y ago

OP likes to feel the rush of shooting the messenger.