shag wrote:
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> i'm tired from having[clip]
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> i guess i didn't explain myself. i know how orientalism is normally used.
You were tired when you wrote this. What you had trouble noting was that _Chris_ had not the slightest idea how "orientalism" wwas "normally used" -- I suspect he had never heard of Edward Said, and just used the word to indicate what he thought was a mere infatuation with things "oriental."
Carrol