...to keep me safe from some of my respondents these days who are keen to point out that since I am a white Western guy enslaved to reason, I am imposing my imperial mind trip on the other in the form of scientistic factoids. You know—the other: the ones condescendingly allowed to be non-reflexive.
This is particularly sucky when I'm talking about global warming. Many many people have told me that non-white non-Western people couldn't or shouldn't or couldn't because they shouldn't give a toss about it.
This is despite the fact that some of the most imaginative 350.org protests come from ahem non-Western countries. Like the group in the Maldives who did a cabinet meeting underwater to protest the fact that their island was going to be flooded.
Because the sea water doesn't read critiques of the Enlightenment.
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