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Do you think there may have been developments in this space since 1978, when Said published Orientalism? I don't mean to be rude, but do you think it's possibl
by skyyler 1y ago
Do you think there may have been developments in this space since 1978, when Said published Orientalism?
I don't mean to be rude, but do you think it's possible that your understanding of the situation is a bit out of date?
- breppp 1y agoMaybe, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject. Which part of my critique of post-colonialism do you think had become obsolete?
- skyyler 1y ago>Therefore it is common for an adherent of post-colonialism to believe a statement is true if it was made by a person arbitrarily considered oppressed This part. I'm not sure if it's because it's out of date or just plain wrong, though.
- breppp 1y agoI could give your own post as an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685383 , where you judged a statement as false due to the presumed location of the author in the power/knowledge spectrum. But sorry, it's hard to discuss when you quote a single sentence from the few paragraphs i've written and say it's wrong, with nothing added. When adding to it your replies in previous discussions we had such as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705166 I feel you are overly emotionally attached to the subject and this is approaching troll/flame territory. It's not that I don't want to discuss with you, but I feel in our engagements a lot of aggression and very little actual passing of information except for short sentences, so let's end it right here
- skyyler 1y agoThat isn't a response to what I was asking. You just sent links to me without acknowledging the conversation we were having at all. Very, very strange.