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To: carranza2 who wrote (34007)	7/9/2002 10:23:50 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Said never acknowledges the freedom he has in the US to utter his broadsides. Of course not. I don't mind his living here and attacking us as much as I mind the fawning acceptance of him by our Academic Intellectuals.

To: carranza2 who wrote (34007)	7/9/2002 2:02:28 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Carranza, I hope you don't take this essay too seriously. If you take this as a defining view of Said, you are doing worst than the equivalent of taking Said's view of Lewis as your defining view of L. This writer has taken the worst possible interpretation of each of these moments, refused to investigate context, investigate the source of the charges, investigate anything, bundle all those worst possible interpretations together and then offered them up as "the truth." I've said far too often that Said is someone one can argue with. I would hardly wish to defend all his positions; for one I know only a few. Ditto for Lewis. But, to repeat, if one is serious about making up one's mind about who Said is in the world and what his intellectual and political contributions are, this is not even a start. As for your comment that Said "never acknowledges the freedom he has in the US. . ." that's a bit of a dramatic overgeneralization. Said is extraordinarily prolific. I've read some stuff of his that praises the US quite highly. And I've read some stuff that criticizes it, quite strongly.