Excellent piece. I too have been concerned about this attitude as a continuation of orientalism which requires the East to act as foils to how western liberals like to see themselves.https://twitter.com/quillettem/status/958645312293289989 …
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When we are having a crisis of lack of interest in STEM and are reliant on attracting, doctors, engineers and scientists from India, Pakistan and Nigeria is absolutely breathtaking. I'm so embarrassed we're still still doing orientalism.
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I said this about it which agrees with Imran Shamsunahar but I was looking more at intersectional feminism & women's rights in the UK. https://conatusnews.com/western-centric-intersectional-feminism/ …pic.twitter.com/iFVGJmdz4m
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Instead of using other frameworks to critique Western science, "decolonizers" merely employ one saying "The West is bad!" without much in the way of particulars (Mostly they bring up historical errors in judgement that were or are being fixed… wait for it… by Western science)
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