What do MAGA Americans Have in Common with “Orientals”?
A Saudi journalist was on the radio the other day commenting on a striking familiarity he noticed about recent media coverage of American Trump supporters. He described it in one word: Orientalism. I immediately understood what he meant. Edward Said gave shape to the concept of Orientalism as a predominantly “western” (European and American) way of “othering” Arab and Asian peoples by exaggerating and distorting exotic differences in ways that suggest iconoclasm, backwardness, incivility, and...
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