[lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jun 28 10:52:42 PDT 2009


On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:40 PM, ravi wrote:


> Fine as far as that goes, but it is not an act of exoticising for
> someone to say that perhaps your "ideas of justice", even if its
> shared by a "lot" of Iranians, may neither be universal nor shared
> by the majority. Rather, I suspect, it is the assumption that indeed
> your ideas of justice are universal that is driving this accusation
> of exoticisation i.e., you seem to be suggesting that if X does not
> agree that a majority of Iranians share your idea of justice, then X
> is exoticising Iranians (correct me, if wrong).

Quoting Slavoj Zizek from memory: During the struggle against apartheid, the ANC spoke of universal values, and Buthelezi, in the pay of the CIA, always talked about special African conceptions of human rights.



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