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Academic and Writer. Author,Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance & British Dissent.

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    Priyamvada Gopal‏Verified account @PriyamvadaGopal 27 Nov 2019

    Why do historians keep pretending that 'both sides' involves parties with equal amounts of power? Left and right, colonizer and colonized, establishment and non-establishment? It's facile but I suppose it helps the discipline's faux agnosticism which underpins faux objectivity.

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      1. Priyamvada Gopal‏Verified account @PriyamvadaGopal 27 Nov 2019

        A real tendency to believe that 'bothsides-ism' is the same thing as 'nuance'. It ain't. The truth isn't always in the middle.

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      1. Priyamvada Gopal‏Verified account @PriyamvadaGopal 27 Nov 2019

        There's no other discipline in which a certain kind of bland European liberalism is not just an ideological but methodological requirement. Along with the pretense that it is not ideological.

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      1. Priyamvada Gopal‏Verified account @PriyamvadaGopal 27 Nov 2019

        I think it's why I ended up being formally a literary critic. Not because I am a relativist--I am not--but because I didn't have to keep pretending that I was above all ideology & constitutively even-handed.

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      2. Tim Back Walz‏ @SAmalgamated 27 Nov 2019
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        honest answer: It is psychologically quite painful to realize you are part of a class benefiting from systemic oppression. nowhere near as painful as being oppressed, but the impulse to both sides comes from a desire to not have your foot on anothers neck despite all evidence.

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      3. Jack Z‏ @stmarnock69 29 Nov 2019
        Replying to @SAmalgamated @ISASaxonists @PriyamvadaGopal

        Racism plays upon the cultivation of a false consciousness that figures the world as white. Acknowledging that one benefits from hierarchies of race, class and gender is the essential step for allyship IMHO 👍

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      1. Afra Raymond‏ @afra_raymond 27 Nov 2019
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        False Equivalence is a bitter brew I cannot get accustomed to...

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      2. Wesley Dolan‏ @WesleyDolan 27 Nov 2019
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        Ireland's revisionists historians generally castigated Irish nationalism and republicanism in the name of "balance". Effectively they acted as apologists for British colonialism and went on to careers in British college's. Funny how that goes.

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      3. Nessa Johnston‏ @johnston_nessa 27 Nov 2019
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        ...aaand, here's a classic example of nuance being mistaken for false equivalence/both-sides-ism, with a side order of sweeping generalizations.

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      1. Claire Higgins‏ @ClarNiUigin 27 Nov 2019
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        Thanks in large part to the Subaltern school at least some of us in Europe got taught beyond the bland post-imperial both sidesism (hat tip to The Rise & Demise of Imperialism section at @EdinburghUni!).

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      1. Jason Davies‏ @JasonPtrDavies 27 Nov 2019
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        It’s that air of not being taken in by appearances. Mimicry of seeing further than others. Drove me nuts when an active historian. See also reviews of really good books: ‘however, when X turns to...’

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