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Third World Quarterly publishes "The Case for Colonialism" leading to censorship demands
BLUF:[LI] Rather than celebrating the open mindedness of the journal’s publishing a piece challenging some of the central paradigms of their discipline, and taking this challenge as an opportunity to refute the piece, numerous academics have cried ’foul’ and are calling for the retraction of the article and for sanctioning the author and the editors. Members of the editorial board have threatened to resign. Some have threatened to boycott the journal entirely (even not to cite it). Cries of racism and ’white supremacy’ dominating academia have naturally followed. It is ironic that those outraged are so blinded by their own self-perceived (and frequently self-serving) victim status that they fail to see that it is precisely the overwhelming success of their own anti-colonial orthodoxy, rendering the defense of colonialism so marginal, that makes it possible for a journal like Third World Quarterly to view publishing such a piece as unthreatening in the first place. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-21 |
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