Orientalism 101: when you’re a US academic whose taught at a university in the Middle East and make pejorative comments on US similarity to that country vis-à-vis state violence. What you’re doing in addition to highlighting your prejudice is exposing your white privilege.
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Ugh, that fb post was in such poor taste. The rhetoric of travel to a foreign country "preparing" a white man for the antiracist movement back home is so very Grand Tour.
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That’s a generous read. I thought it was more like the chaos of that country and government’s violence prepared him for US government violence under Trump. I don’t even think it was about being anti-racist.
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