North American intellectuals lack the historical experience to judge occupied people’s choices

Evidence

I’m afraid that much of the debate aroused by these materials has struck me as what Walter Benn Michaels likes to call “handwringing.” For one thing, it does not seem to me that North American intellectuals have generally had the kind of experience of history that would qualify them to judge the actions and choices of people under military occupation (unless indeed the situation of the Vietnam War is taken to offer some rough analogy). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Could connect to Jameson’s broader argument that production-site and subject-position constrain judgment — the world-systems cognitive map theme. — connects to: Exile intellectuals judged homeland and America by where influence was purchasable — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Twentieth-century intellectuals attributed laziness, mysticism, and statelessness to Orientals en masse; American assumptions of natural continuity stem from historical amnesia and isolation. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1027 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exile intellectuals judged homeland and America by where influence was purchasable — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Twentieth-century intellectuals attributed laziness, mysticism, and statelessness to Orientals en masse; American assumptions of natural continuity stem from historical amnesia and isolation. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1027 (+2 more)