This was a rant which I didn't feel quiet appros, that being said I don't really agree with many of the statements. The biggest one is that white Canadians honestly give a shit, I don't think they do, moreso I think they can openly hate us in many places in the nation and suffer no repercussion. I also disagree that…

Is no one else going to notice the rancid classism of this article? Are you all to busy falling over yourself to complement each other about how great parents you are? Apparently not hitting your kids is a middle class thing, and you know, not a good human thing.

The awareness and injustice of ones own situation and gulf between those who enforce that injustice. You currently rolling around in the shit that you were given yelling at everyone but the people who put there...which is richer white people. That smell you smell, of outrage at the wrong people because your own…

Nothing to do with your colour—all to do with your attitude. Like I said, enjoy the shit, y'all get use to the smell.

I'm from a reservation in Northern Alberta that has a poverty rate of 50%. Myself and my family has gone through a process in which the goal was to erasure of my entire way of life and culture through kidnapping, rape, murder, and general violence. The wealth of my people was plundered by colonial overlords over…

What whitebashing? You think the careful and studious examination of ones privilege in the face of individually uncontrollable societal forces through the art of video games is whitebashing?

The majority of human beings in power in his given nation-state (which given by the vernacular is the UK). Are you daft? Pretty easy to see what he meant.

American is currently the only existing colonial empire the is still occupy it's fucking empire. Like why is this not getting through. It's that America has a terrible past (it does) it's that it's fucking terrible now. From random drone strikes in countries they aren't at war with (Yemen, Pakistan) to the horrowshow…

America is a continued terror for the entirety of your history outside of 4 years in the middle of the 20th century and yet you still ended that by unleashing a weapon in which humans could literally make life on this planet unable to continue. Are you honestly trying to pretend that the Iraq war didn't happen? That's…

*you're education a single child

But my problem is America, outside of perhaps the last 30 years as they rose to world sole superpower, hasn't been unique, not in law, not in language, not in religion, not in philosophy, not in science, or even in culture (outside of the way all cultures are relatively unique but not exceptional). The way German…

Yes, perceived, but not in action or thought. Which is a distinction I believe is important because while America might unique today as the world's sole superpower much of it's past is not. It operated in much the same other colonial powers, and it's law, philosophy, science, and culture was deprived from Western…

I just think Tocqueville is wrong about America whilst also being an important observer of America. And the mindsets of a culture and the actual culture is really not a arbitrary distinction—America believes itself a liberal society that protects the right's of the individual, America is a slave state—mindsets in…

Ah, a difference of interpretation then, for me, while Tocqueville is trying to capture the essence of American culture is in fact capturing the essence of American mindsets. American isn't and wasn't exceptional, it's ideas after all where derived from European thought (British law for instance is the backbone of…

But that isn't even remotely true. The statement has pretty much always been used to describe the way Americans viewed themselves when compared to their European forefathers. That idea of America exceptionalism has always been about how Americans view America as superior, it's how the justified the imperialistic…

Ah, the fashion industry, where white women get live their fantasy of being white men who shit all over colored people.

Which is even more absurd in that taken in any other context if a text was 'too dense' it would be praised for being so. I know a dude who basically reads Foucault religiously and yet couldn't get through a bell hooks book because it was 'confusing'. Literal words out of a mouth of an otherwise intelligent human…

Yeah my world comparative literature teacher spoke 8 languages (most of them from India plus English, Spanish, and French), it was absurdly intimidating. But as I said I know basically nothing about CompLit as my classes focused on fiction (and usually older 'fictions' like the Greek and Indian Epics) rather things…

I'm not overly familiar with Comparative Literature (I've taken a couple classes of comparative world lit as electives and I enjoyed them quiet a bit but assume I know next to nothing) but how is it comparable to philosophy? Aren't they two completely different fields with two different, if somewhat overlapping, goals…

You have to take into the context that this was written (or rather record as it was most assuredly an oral epic before ever being written down) for a very, very different audience in a very, very different time. Most readings try to at least replicate that context when engaging the text. That being said I think there…