[Austin-ghetto-list] Edward Said

[Jon Ford]

Mike-- there, there-- if you want to slander Said, go ahead--he won't bother 
to sue you-- but, since you consider yourself a scholar and a Harvard man, 
quote me chapter and verse, otherwise I may consider that you've been smokin 
too much loco weed again, ol' pardner!

Jon


>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: RE: [Austin-ghetto-list] Edward Said
>Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 16:37:02 -0400
>
>Wayne,
>
>I am amazed that you would praise Edward Said's
>books. His view that Western scholarship on the
>subject of non-Western cultures is 100%
>distortion and lies (he calls said scholarship
>Orientalism) and that said scholarship is and
>has always been a handmaiden of capitalist
>exploitation through the centuries is total
>nonsense.
>
>Yes, I have read his books. His position is that
>what he says about the Near East is true because
>he is an Ayrab and that your view is necessarily
>false because you are NOT an Ayrab and that you
>or your cousin is or was a capitalist. Yes, that
>is in fact his actual position. If you are in
>favor of Western civilisation, you are ipso facto
>guilty of bad faith and a dishonest scholar. He
>on the otherhand being a Palestinian and a victim
>(despite being a tenured professor at Columbia U)
>is pure in heart as YOU can never be.
>
>Mike Eisenstadt
>
>


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