I’m gonna call this sort of thing Ravenous Bugbatter temporality. If history can’t see you, you can’t see history. It’s something more basic than a colonialist mindset. It’s like children at some point come to terms with the idea that there was a time before they were born.https://twitter.com/karmanomad/status/1213863991942033409 …
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I notice this in discussions about India with foreigners who overindex on the English-speaking and British heritage. They’re genuinely surprised when the “ersatz brown Britishers with Apu accents and vestigial funny gods” abstraction leaks significantly.
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