Comment by skyyler
4 days ago
Do you think there may have been developments in this space since 1978, when Said published Orientalism?
I don't mean to be rude, but do you think it's possible that your understanding of the situation is a bit out of date?
Maybe, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject.
Which part of my critique of post-colonialism do you think had become obsolete?
>Therefore it is common for an adherent of post-colonialism to believe a statement is true if it was made by a person arbitrarily considered oppressed
This part. I'm not sure if it's because it's out of date or just plain wrong, though.
I could give your own post as an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685383 , where you judged a statement as false due to the presumed location of the author in the power/knowledge spectrum.
But sorry, it's hard to discuss when you quote a single sentence from the few paragraphs i've written and say it's wrong, with nothing added. When adding to it your replies in previous discussions we had such as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705166
I feel you are overly emotionally attached to the subject and this is approaching troll/flame territory. It's not that I don't want to discuss with you, but I feel in our engagements a lot of aggression and very little actual passing of information except for short sentences, so let's end it right here
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