[lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 17 08:53:25 PDT 2007


As w/ my earlier post on the Orientalist fixation -- the "Persian angels and princes" stuff -- I said "westernized," the term I should have applied here -- not Westerner.

In any event, the haughty dismissal of the piece in question, whichv voiced an admirale sentiment, is still kinda insufferably obnoxious, regardless of where/who it came from. Thankfully it wasn't appended with multiply-Googled artucles attached end on end.

-B.

Chris Doss wrote:
> Just pointing out that Yoshie is not a Westerner,
> she's a Japanese expat.
>
> --- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Doug Henwood >
>> I dunno, the talk about "Persian angels" and
>> "princes"
>> still leads me back to Western
>> exoticization/fetishization of the "Orient" a la
the
>> old pop songs "Rebecca from Mecca," etc. where
there
>> was an equal fascination with all things Arabian
>> and/or Persian, with blemishes on reality
blissfully
>> overlooked. Persian culture is fascinating. But we
>> could also hope to tease out the inner socialists
of
>> folks in places like Latin America, or, hell, the
>> US,
>> too. Not just obsessively with Iran.



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