If a traditionally liberal (read: paleoliberal) magazine like The American Prospect can publish an obit that is mildly critical of the excesses of Edward Said-why is it that the majority of culturally “sensitive” liberals can not do the same??? To see the extreme case, check out this report of the push toward criminalization of “Islamophobia”. I am not asserting that most latte liberals know much about the details of Orientalism, but the terror of criticizing and critiquing non-Western culture that the Said’s of the world enforced has now spread horizontally far into the “cowboy” culture of the Right-note G.W. Bush’s consistent refrain that Islam = Peace.
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