nah that i can live with, but when youve got stuff like this on literally page 2
The key to the puzzle is that Theirstory (imperialist Euro-Amerikan mis-history) is not incomplete; it isn’t true at all. Theirstory also includes the standard class analysis of Amerika that is put forward into our hands by the Euro-Amerikan Left.
it really starts to feel like a ranting polemic from some student-group newspaper rather than a serious scholarly work, which is fine if you just want to be entertained by some ranting but then when he starts throwing out statistics etc its very hard not to question whether the sources were chosen because theyre the most accurate or because they align best with the story, and frankly the whole thing felt very very flimsy to me
like yeah maybe theres some unexamined ideological baggage of scholarly authority coming from a very white and classist approach to using the right words to show youre in the club, but it is literally physically impossible to read that paragraph without rolling your eyes
nah that i can live with, but when youve got stuff like this on literally page 2
it really starts to feel like a ranting polemic from some student-group newspaper rather than a serious scholarly work, which is fine if you just want to be entertained by some ranting but then when he starts throwing out statistics etc its very hard not to question whether the sources were chosen because theyre the most accurate or because they align best with the story, and frankly the whole thing felt very very flimsy to me
like yeah maybe theres some unexamined ideological baggage of scholarly authority coming from a very white and classist approach to using the right words to show youre in the club, but it is literally physically impossible to read that paragraph without rolling your eyes