#of people being like oh so all of European art is racist and therefore Fully Bad Not Redeemable? you’re telling me I should kill myself if

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reading orientalism some more and I like that the introduction is mostly Said listing all the caveats to his thesis. like for pages and pages he’s like I’m NOT saying this or this or this so don’t respond to me like I said any of that shit. I love when academics preface their work with “here are all the reasons why you’re not allowed to get mad at me”

#book club #also like on a more serious note I deeply sympathise with what is probably a lifelong form of exhaustion #of people being like oh so all of European art is racist and therefore Fully Bad Not Redeemable? you’re telling me I should kill myself if #I like classical literature? you think I should DIE?