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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The sheer arrogance of British identitarians saying that science needs to be decolonised because it is western & imperialist & represses other ways of knowing which we must embrace from the east...
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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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