My First Post of the Day: I hate Asante

I’m going to respond to James Arnt Aune’s “Cultures of Discourse” because the postcolonial article was boring, I’m sick of feminism, and Asante is a racist. But before I start in on Aune’s piece, I would like to rant about Asante’s ridicules article and how it should never have been published. There is really nothing in his article other than a flat out rejection of Western thought. He makes strong statements that are not cited. Here are a few that I plucked from the beginning of his paper: “social science seems near its end,” we have a “limited view of reality,” Hegel argues that society only exists if all men are free “meaning, essentially, all whites,” “we so easily fall into the trap of believing that what is will always be,” we should “place communication squarely in the middle,” “we get strange social science from African-American and Chinese-American social sciences,” “we cannot see the problem,” “they embarrass themselves,” “unfortunately, this means that you probably know very little about the nature of humankind.”
So what about this communication person that has a broad world view endowed upon him through his connection to African culture? “Unlike other profiles of humanity, that of the communication person reveals the human being as a singularly master of all he or she surveys without becoming a dictator over others; although the communication person possesses the power of information, he or she is checked by a creative belief in the human personality” (557). He later criticizes ethnic foundations of criticism but never argues whether there should be some kind of unified base or no base at all. He has no clear focus, makes inaccurate statements, and preaches about a more collective view while hypocritically stating that the Afro centric view encapsulates this ideal. Maybe the discourse he is preaching against has become so prevalent because it doesn’t rely on “a creative belief in the human personality,” to keep in check, but instead uses intellectual discourse that is constantly building upon and correcting itself.
“The methodological posture which the communication field must take is that all sectors of a society and all societies can be explored, analyzed, and questioned on the basis of their contribution to the human personality” (559). Can someone tell me how this is practical at all? This is a great encompassing view for a field as a whole, but this doesn’t work from one academia to the next. So, that is my rant on Asante. I have to go to an honors club party right now, but I’ll be back with a more conducive response to Aune.