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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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Agreed. That said, some true foreign policy experts are--carefully, while checking their privilege, and not at all in a pejorative way--making comparisons.https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/04/george-floyd-protests-arab-spring-parallels-tahrir-square/ …
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @Eronusis ja @DrDadabhoy
The author of that piece is a distinguished scholar on Middle East policy and Egypt's political history. I post the link only to show that there is a careful and informative way to compare these things, a way that benefits the antiracist movement.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Eronusis
This is a thoughtful analysis that isn’t punching down on Egypt in the way that I observed one of our colleagues doing on FB. You’re right, one can spot affinities in the fight for global justice. This is an example of that.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
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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