Um, the other options were Nazi Germany (tight connections there with the Mufti) and their famed love of 'multiculturalism'....the Turks continuing centuries of anti Arab oppression...Russia and their glowing Communist glories....or maybe another Arab power controlling Palestine.
Poor place, no power. You get what you're given. The Liberal Global Order is the only reason you have educated Palestinians all over western universities and fools like Said shaping a whole generation of deluded teachers.
Until Hamas murdered 1000 innocents, the status of Palestinians was, well, what you get in a global world order. Does anybody care about the many others oppressed today on earth? Apparently not.
This analysis is exactly about all oppressed people on earth today, and how this oppression is rooted in a system that wants to perpetrate that oppression. The Liberal Global Order is the current form of unbalanced power relations that keeps privileges for a part of the world oppressing others. The comment, with reference to Palestinians, is very Orientalist and racist, showing no knowledge of Arab history and global history too, superficial in its assessment of what power relations and historical developments have been, with no acknowledgment of people agency, very paternalizing, perfect example of Eurocentric colonial arrogance.
As if all oppressed people had anything in common. What about all the oppressed people in industrial Europe? Eastern Europe (skin color?)...in the 19th 20th centuries today? Only poc had it hard. What a joke. And the elites in the MidEast etc? Same elites who today live in the West enjoying the coke and comforts while not daring to go near their 'homelands.'...
This binary view is ahistorical, undergrad fervor lacking depth or honesty.
Edward Said made it all up. Those poor cultures colonized, oh they were so joyous before....and that noble savage myth..that utopian pre European past?? My lord. They were lucky anybody wanted to study them and luckier it wasn't the Russians or Chinese or local marauders. Couldn't even get the oil out of the ground, so advanced! Yes, some nice architecture made by slave labor for the lords and rajas and sultans. How impressive!!
If you actually look at the Ottomans, Persia, Arab world, India pre and post the white man...all were impoverished, desperate, patriarchal, illiterate (except for the 1%), violent and equally aggressive as Europeans, and certainly not letting people name Miriam in on the debate, ever.
Its because I'm an expert in Arab history I point this out.
Your binary view is Foucault, Said, Derrida. Its about as historically accurate as their theoretical works of fancy were. Or American students on campus typically are...
Study Arab, Muslim, Ottoman, Persian, South Asian history. Get back to us...
Um, the other options were Nazi Germany (tight connections there with the Mufti) and their famed love of 'multiculturalism'....the Turks continuing centuries of anti Arab oppression...Russia and their glowing Communist glories....or maybe another Arab power controlling Palestine.
Poor place, no power. You get what you're given. The Liberal Global Order is the only reason you have educated Palestinians all over western universities and fools like Said shaping a whole generation of deluded teachers.
Until Hamas murdered 1000 innocents, the status of Palestinians was, well, what you get in a global world order. Does anybody care about the many others oppressed today on earth? Apparently not.
This analysis is exactly about all oppressed people on earth today, and how this oppression is rooted in a system that wants to perpetrate that oppression. The Liberal Global Order is the current form of unbalanced power relations that keeps privileges for a part of the world oppressing others. The comment, with reference to Palestinians, is very Orientalist and racist, showing no knowledge of Arab history and global history too, superficial in its assessment of what power relations and historical developments have been, with no acknowledgment of people agency, very paternalizing, perfect example of Eurocentric colonial arrogance.
As if all oppressed people had anything in common. What about all the oppressed people in industrial Europe? Eastern Europe (skin color?)...in the 19th 20th centuries today? Only poc had it hard. What a joke. And the elites in the MidEast etc? Same elites who today live in the West enjoying the coke and comforts while not daring to go near their 'homelands.'...
This binary view is ahistorical, undergrad fervor lacking depth or honesty.
Edward Said made it all up. Those poor cultures colonized, oh they were so joyous before....and that noble savage myth..that utopian pre European past?? My lord. They were lucky anybody wanted to study them and luckier it wasn't the Russians or Chinese or local marauders. Couldn't even get the oil out of the ground, so advanced! Yes, some nice architecture made by slave labor for the lords and rajas and sultans. How impressive!!
If you actually look at the Ottomans, Persia, Arab world, India pre and post the white man...all were impoverished, desperate, patriarchal, illiterate (except for the 1%), violent and equally aggressive as Europeans, and certainly not letting people name Miriam in on the debate, ever.
Its because I'm an expert in Arab history I point this out.
Your binary view is Foucault, Said, Derrida. Its about as historically accurate as their theoretical works of fancy were. Or American students on campus typically are...
Study Arab, Muslim, Ottoman, Persian, South Asian history. Get back to us...