/int/ - certified time wasters

Can't cope with humanities, especially not orientalism. It's the most interesting field, but due a complex historical-academical process, the most revolting flavor of celebrating and enforcing tropes of Asiatic exoticism in ways that are reminiscent of the most stereotypical 19th century orientalists has won. They cloak their essence with pseudo-leftist terminology, but it's the same field with the same people. Was Said right all along? Is this field fundamentally irredeemable?

>>23240
Sayeed is literally just for people outside Oriental Studies/Asian Studies who want to be mad at the field. His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative. It’s a theoretical blind alley. A black hole of effort. Much like every Palestinian, only destruction follows in Sayeed’s wake as leftist academics seek to stiffle intercultural dialogue and learning from each other as something that will “infect” things with “biases”. Well, duh. That’s what the humanities are. Working around your biases or utilizing them to make something new.

Maybe once the Chinese century starts I will write a book titled “Occidentalism/西方热” that will mindkill generations of Asian scholars.

>>23241
>His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative.
So, a regular postmodernist?