starting Edward Said's Orientalism and the preface he wrote in 2003 is an absolute fucking stunner

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def colored by Current Events but I'm noticing a lot how much this summarizes the dichotomies, syncretism, and chauvinistic imagery that define Israel as a constructed nation and ethos in the post-WWII era - hard to not see their self-definition as an assertion they're the Occident of the Orient

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this thread is going to be even more painfully white and american than me having strong opinions on anime piracy

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like obviously fetishization of the Other is a key facet of orientalism but I'd just somehow never connected the way that it's used to implicitly reinforce that western culture is dominant and masculine

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like six pages in it brings up the conception of "Orient" being a nonconsensual definition used in order to assert the implicit classism of the Western hierarchy along gendered lines and i felt my brain expand in real time. no doy of COURSE it's all gender

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