Squeers: you must be sensible of the utter poverty of what you're saying. but you fail to communicate it in a coherent manner.

Cut YEBIGA some slack mate, English is his second language. YEBIGA is more at home reading the Koran, that where he get's his Humanities from, any other reading he does is to find a theory back up the Koran.

He is trying to copy Aristocrat at the moment by swallowing a dictionary, so he can appear to be pseudo intelligent.

It is perhaps instructive to reflect on what [deleted - offensive] may claim as its achievements: equality for women, ethnic tolerance, gay validation.

It so happens that this aligns perfectly to the advantage of globalised corporations. Moreover , the suffragette movement predates [deleted - offensive] by many decades, but it was the need for labour during the Second World War which introduced women to the general work force in number. The economic power which came from work empowered women and surely trumps any influence by theorists.

Moreover as capitalism expands across the globe tolerance of races and ethnicity is a prerequisite. Further, the tendency of gays to be smarter then average, talented, well educated they would always appeal to corporations.

Thus, the great achievements of [deleted - offensive] are the inevitable logic and desire of global capitalism and would occur with or without the aid of theorists and the widespread deployment of compassion.

Another, self appointed project from the schools of [deleted - offensive] is indigenous affairs. Here a great outpouring of compassion is generated to ripple across society ostensibly with the intention of improving the lives of indigenous peoples. The results on the ground however are absent. What has been attempted is the preservation of culture, as if indigenous people were themselves museum pieces, at the expense of lives lived in shameful conditions. Whilst, in cafes throughout Melbourne and Sydney, we feel good about compassion, we censor our language and escape into the realm of complete fantasy with all manner of symbolic gestures and great outpouring of apologies. On the ground nothing changes.

we will find the achievements of [deleted - offensive] no matter how well intentioned, to be either at best serving the interests of the corporate hegemony or downright harmful. From the outset its motivation was to undermine the great enlightenment project. Its enemy is universal human rights. Its first premise is that there is no universal truth, no common human experience. It is a misanthropia born of 2 world wars, a depression, holocaust, Stalin's purges, the threat of nuclear annihilation - entirely understandable but born of this sickness it is itself a disease.

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SQUEERS and others,

to anyone who believes that the LEFT and therefore the majority of influence in the Humanities, is actually a truly self-critical, open and honest movement and culture of critique . . . .

. . . . . WHY do I never hear a feminist discussing women and oppression in most of the non-western world and how often culture and tradition of an unenlightened and unreasoned people is responsible?

. . . . . WHY is it utterly TABOO to discuss in universities and school generally issues such as non-western, non-white societies and RACISM and other prejudices of a tribal origin?

. . . . . WHY does the mostly left media and academic circles ONLY ever criticize western governments in situations of war and/or people/refugee flows such as in our region with Indonesia and their role in refugees coming here?

That is why are all the criticisms and questions only directed to white-western communities and their leaders? A truly critical person would also be scorning Indonesia for not in any sense treating refugees and other vulnerable groups with basic human decency and rights,

If one still PRETENDs that all non-western nations are poor and so cannot help, what about the extremely wealthy Arab Gulf states and also Japan, South Korea, and more and more these days also China and India who each have the population of the USA of a well-off middle class and these people allow their own poor (other half of nation) to be used and abused and robbed and to remain poor and in squalor.

Why doesn't the left EVER seems to be interested in these issues and be engaged in them.

If you take a glance at most books, journals and Course contents at any university in the west it is clear that the primary and overwhelming interest and focus for the left and their so-called critique crusade is to attack the flaws in the western society even though human rights, discrimination and gender abuse etc. are almost non-existent at least when compared with places such as Saudi Arabia, China, India etc.

"WHY do I never hear a feminist discussing women and oppression in most of the non-western world and how often culture and tradition of an unenlightened and unreasoned people is responsible?"

So you have your ear cocked for all the world's discourse?

Jottiikii, you have to harden yourself to the possibility that your perception of reality, overall, is conditioned by your localised experience, in other words that you're deluded..
But take heart, you're not alone.
For a start, I don't believe in the LEFT, and the Humanities is a diverse spectrum of scholarly interests and prejudices that's hardly changed since Hume. But since, presumably, you know nothing about Hume, I'll have to talk on your level about what Hume called the "passions". These are that very incapacity of thought that you evince in such abundance; the passions militate against reason.

"WHY do I never hear a feminist discussing women and oppression in most of the non-western world and how often culture and tradition of an unenlightened and unreasoned people is responsible?"

Well unless you have your omniscient ear cocked, around the globe, for this kind of discourse, you're unlikely to. Where do you get your information btw? And remember that the places you allude to are lorded over by men (or a poor excuse for such a venerable designation).

"WHY is it utterly TABOO to discuss in universities and school generally issues such as non-western, non-white societies and RACISM and other prejudices of a tribal origin?

It's utterly not. Being an experienced tutor, I find conservative resistance far more prevalent. Intolerance is alive and well.

"WHY does the mostly left media and academic circles ONLY ever criticize western governments in situations of war and/or people/refugee flows such as in our region with Indonesia and their role in refugees coming here?"

A recent study found the ABC is not biased, whereas we know the rest boast a right-wing bias.
Has not the media been critical of North Korea, Siria, Iran etc. etc?

In short, you are but the aeolian harp of the shock jocks and discursive noise of your ignorant generation.

I didn't consider my post offensive, but I guess YEBIGA did. The I wasn't the one fixated with, Well it IS blanked out.

Jottiikii: If you take a glance at most books, journals and Course contents at any university in the west it is clear that the primary and overwhelming interest and focus for the left and their so-called critique crusade is to attack the flaws in the western society even though human rights, discrimination and gender abuse etc. are almost non-existent at least when compared with places such as Saudi Arabia, China, India etc.

I've been saying this for years. The Humanities Studies are purely concerned with a Western orientation & Western or European peoples. So where does this leave ME & Asian peoples, or is this one of "Terra Nullius." What Studies have been done on ME & Asian Philosophers & writers in Humanities. Or, are any recognized as worthy of being included in Humanities by a Western oriented or Biased Faculty.

I often wonder why the Left always protests vigorously over any mistake, accident, bad behaviour or atrocity committed by Western Armies & NEVER complain about the deliberate atrocities committed by the people they are fighting on their own people.

How do the Humanities explain that, or will they. Is it a form of Racism?