I am offering a place in the space I have created for you to say what you want, in your own voice. This is consistent with what our newspaper "NOISE" did in Vancouver back in the early 1990s, when I started into this research project: instead of reporting upon First Nations issues, we simply gave over space to members of the First Nations so that they could report from their perspective, and write upon issues that involved them (issues we were the only outlet giving coverage to) — such as a land claims trials that had been decided against them, due in part because (to paraphrase the judge) 'they had no written language that would establish a continuity of ownership or land, such as recognized in these courts.' That decision was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada — but the decision was not reversed, it was simply negated. So I've continued to work on this project.
You can take my offer to say what you want on my website, or not.
I am interested in what you might say, for a number of reasons; one of which is, that I have come to realize the dynamics which drive the "Social Justice Warrior" movement in North America are a strange mixture of the Continental post-structural critiques I have worked with all my life — which are grounded upon the analysis of specific circumstances regarding any specific set of circumstances — and the universalist approaches of the human rights movement in North America.
It's an issue I have long encountered, having had to argue at length that the specific rights of the First Nations do not abrogate the universal rights of others who try to claim that their rights are somehow curtailed by the rights of others; but it is an argument that is never won on the grounds of universalism, since in any case there are no rights that have not been hard fought for an won in specific circumstances.
So yes, I will look to any reply you might have in that context.
If you don't feel comfortable saying what ever you want to say about my research to my face in front of others who might look at what I am doing, then I won't post your assessment on my site.
I also won't take what you might have to say very far into consideration.
