White Fear of Savage Reprisal in the Course of Decolonization |

27.5.16

White Fear of Savage Reprisal in the Course of Decolonization |: [onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com] That he attempts to indite me further by claiming that the line i put forth would further include the expulsion of East Asians, Middle Easterners, and Indians (by which i assume he is referring to subcontinentals) is again attempting to forcibly insert something into the text that isn’t there. Indeed, you’d think that someone such as he, who would claim to be quite well versed in academic marxist and critical theory type politics, would be well aware of the distinction increasingly being made within that particular milieu between the concepts of settlers and “arrivants”—his apparent lack of awareness on this point, i would note, is a pretty searing indictment of his own theoretical myopia.

Again, i believe that Wolfe is taking his own uninterrogated fear that the We, the Red Indian Savage Folk and our old Afrikan allies, are coming for him and his ilk and mapping it onto others in such a way as to try and make anti-colonial politics (not just my own, but the entire radical indigenist stream of thought and practice) seem patently ridiculous. Again, perhaps Wolfe is being intentionally disingenuous in an attempt to obfuscate the issue, but if he is, it is linked to something deeper.