Some sensible points relating to current debates on terminology in this thread here, fwiw :)https://twitter.com/DrLRoach/status/1184428446144978944 …
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And El-Tayeb discusses that imagines that Europe has no history of empire where such terms were used for global violent domination. It’s a pre-1945 convenient historical amnesia that allows Europeans to imagine they are innocent. And thus terminology is innocent.
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And also, history of the English language point, the term has been a problem for a long time in multiple global English empire locations. The term is also used by contemporary UK pro-Brexiters to justify xenophobia and racism and some pure white UK nonsense. If you want to go w/
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