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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Win Smith who wrote (33946)7/8/2002 8:35:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It should be noted that Orientalist learning itself was premised on the silence of the native, who was to be represented by an Occidental expert speaking ex cathedra on the native's behalf, presenting that unfortunate creature as an undeveloped, deficient, and uncivilized being who couldn't represent himself. But just as it has now become inappropriate for white scholars to speak on behalf of "Negroes," it has, since the end of classical European colonialism, stopped being fashionable or even acceptable to pontificate about the Oriental's (i.e., the Muslim's, or the Indian's, or the Japanese's) "mentality."


Notice how Said says outright that white people are no longer allowed to present themselves as experts on "Negroes" or any non-European culture, without giving a single instance of this alleged Orientalist patronising in the book he's reviewing. Notice how he does not make this prohibition conditional on what the scholars do or do not know. If he made the case that the scholars did not have adequate depth of knowledge he might make his case. No, it is western scholars trying to explain the mideast to other westerners that is forbidden; scholarship is now supposed to be totally subservient to group identity politics.

I find this attitude more racist than anything he's reacting against.
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