There always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
– Edward Said in Orientalism
h/t Louis Allday
If anyone is wondering what the kind of pro-imperial apologia Said describes looks like: https://t.co/ewGY8nDsYl— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) October 18, 2016
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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