Historicity of Jesus - 2

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Orientalism was a categorically legitimate enterprise in the last century, such that (I’m sure) even Tilak would have referred to themselves as orientalists, and, in all earnestness, would have declared that ” we are the real orientalists, we love the orient more than the orientalists,” oblivious to the exact nature of the orientalists’ “love” for their “subject”. Today, Orientalism is defunct because the ideological basis of the discourse has been made unbearably plain to everyone. The same need to be accomplished with the “Modern” and “Liberal” rubrics behind which the colonizer is currently masked. AIT, a major cornerstone of the colonial project (most developed by the liberals), has already been successfully assailed.