So let's stop wasting time with so much Idle Chatter About The Imaginary Indian, writes Terry Glavin.

My point is: enough with the fixations on aboriginal hyper-authenticity and play-acting in period costume already. It is less a challenge to the status quo than a retrenchment of the status quo. There’s nothing new about this. It is a panoply of iterations in an Imaginary Indian Complex that is only as traditional as the tradition that white people began when they first started holding up funhouse mirrors for aboriginal people to see themselves in.

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Well, they're not actually "missing". They're dead -- killed for being born without penises.

And this is the result:

Tens of thousands of girls disappear in India every year. They are sold into prostitution, domestic slavery and, increasingly, like Rukhsana, into marriage in the northern states of India where the sex ratio between men and women has been skewed by the illegal - but widespread - practice of aborting girl foetuses.

An estimated 25-50 million "missing" women in India. As well as infanticide and foeticide, childhood neglect is a problem and many women die early in adulthood.

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Liberalism is sooooo passe. So 17th-century. Screw equal rights. The right of every individual to live in freedom is a perverse illusion.

Don't take my word for it. In the Globe & Mail, UBC PhD student David Moscrop appears to be saying that Enlightenment values just aren't a good fit for non-whites and the underpriveleged. Far better for indigenous movements to reject such nonsense (in favor of unequal treatment and racial supremacism, presumably).

"Middle-class, white and privileged at its core, liberalism, from its inception in the 17th and 18th centuries, was a particular way of thinking about the world based on two radical but flawed ideas: that each individual was equal and that each was free."

Interesting take. Unfortunately for Mr. Moscrop, his opinion is getting absolutely killed in the comments. One example:

Bart F.
10:28 AM on January 4, 2013

 

To paraphrase Churchill, the only system worse than liberal democracy is all the other systems.

Especially systems centred around group identity politics such as ethnic nationalism, racialism, radical feminism, and tribalism.

 

Rejection of these corrosive and disfigured concepts is not a "blind spot".

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In Syria; therefore, not really news.

Frankly speaking, in a conflict between a bloodthirsty tyrant and a bloodthirsty genocidal movement that has made no secret of its aim to turn Syria into an Islamist supremacist Taliban state, it's perhaps surprising we're not looking at Darfur kinds of numbers yet.

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