[lbo-talk] OFFLST -- Re: IWW piece on Iranian labor situation

[B.]

She can't selectively invoke her ex-pat status at her
convenience to say she isn't a part of the US
underclass i.e., yet when working with SEIU while
going to school and being here for years upon years
and living a poverty-level existence claim to also
identify with the US poor (who are tragically a part
of "the West"), when it suits her. She doesn't float
above it all, untouchable.

In any event, I said it reminded me of the old
Romanticist Orientialist literary, but mostly song,
traditions. And if I remember correctly Yoshie came on
here years and years back as a college literature
student, back then quoting literary passages before
endless Googled stuff was the order of the day. I know
19th century lit. for one -- Byron, etc. Vathek,
Romanticist stuff, was filled with decadent sultans,
opium dens, etc. I'm not saying this is what's going
on in Yoshie's head, but she is Westernized, and her
fixation on Persian angels and princes reminds me of
Western Orientalism, which now really no longer exists
in pop. culture like it did in the 1910s and 1920s.
I'm just reminded of it by her obsessiveness about
this one country and its culture.

-B.

Chris Doss wrote:
> OK.
>
> For all I know Japan may have had a similar
> Orientalist phase with respect to the Middle East as
> the West did.
>
> --- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Aware of that, and how she employs her technically
>> expat status in debate when it suits her -- that is
>> why the first time I mentioned the orientalist
>> fixation, I said she was "westernized," which I
>> should
>> I have done here. Because she indeed is, expat or
>> no.