An Indian cognitive scientist came to one of our talks in Portland and told the panel how he'd been accused of being racist and sexist for talking about science to his students.
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I have kneejerk disdain for the term orientalism. Primarily because in my opinion, the people complaining about it are the worst offenders when it comes to treating asians as quaint noble savages.
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I think the original "Orientalism" is one of the most bizarre accusations ever. Assiduously study civilizations different from your own and get called an agent of colonization.
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I haven't read Said so I can't say how the term was originally defined, but it's being used as a catchall-phrase to cover virtually any opinion or attitude one could possibly have on the Orient, from contempt to admiration.
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For Said, Orientalism was a pejorative term meant to discredit European scholarship of "Orientals" as a deceitful effort to rationalize imperialism.
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I'm not surprised. Replace "imperialism" with "capitalism" and you have the orthodox marxist position, where science is irredeemably infected by bourgeois thinking and exists merely to prop up existing systems of exploitation.
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This should be a position one could either agree or disagree with, explaining his reasons for doing so, but what is happening is that disagreement is demonized. The urge to hunt witches remains intact, the witches just changed.
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Well obviously* anyone who would disagree is also an anti-social self-interested capitalist pig. If one accepts this pseudo-marxist paradigm, demonisation of the out-group is pretty much a prerequisite. You can't be a moderate radical. *
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Identity mattering?! Wtf...
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To say nothing of Japanese and Chinese. Or are they now honorary whites?
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Our biggest problems is that we don't train enough of our own. Essentially our elites have given up on the people.
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We've reached the point where most production jobs have already been outsourced, and now increasingly IT work and scientific research are being shipped to Eastern Europe and Asia. Why maintain the western education infrastructure when you need educated employees in Bangalore?
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