Everything you point out in this post has concerned me for a while, with the exception of the BJP stuff. (I really did think it was a tiny little crackpot group, nothing more, but then I'm not exactly up on India goings-on.)
These men and women start from the premise that whatever comes from Western culture is ideologically imperialistic and racist and therefore certainly wrong - wrong without need to debate it or to disprove it, wrong because it is the essence of Western culture to be wrong.
I know so damn many academics and others hereabouts in my little relatively backwater area of the U.S. that fit this description exactly. It really is quite frightening.
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Date: 2006-12-14 05:48 pm (UTC)These men and women start from the premise that whatever comes from Western culture is ideologically imperialistic and racist and therefore certainly wrong - wrong without need to debate it or to disprove it, wrong because it is the essence of Western culture to be wrong.
I know so damn many academics and others hereabouts in my little relatively backwater area of the U.S. that fit this description exactly. It really is quite frightening.
Our work is cut out for us to curb their efforts.