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A theoretical framework that distinguishes between pathological forms of decolonial thought (dogmatic anti-Westernism, rejection of all universal standards, performative radicalism, [intellectual] obscurantism) and valid forms that offer genuine [insight] into coloniality and liberation. Valid decolonial theory analyzes how colonialism structured not just politics and economics but knowledge, culture, and consciousness itself—and argues for the decolonization of all these domains. It draws on Indigenous, African, Latin American, and other non-Western [intellectual] traditions not as alternatives to rigor but as sources of rigor themselves, not as rejections of truth but as expansions of what truth can mean. Valid decolonial theory doesn't claim that Western thought is worthless; it claims that Western thought has been hegemonic, that this hegemony has impoverished everyone, and that genuine [understanding] requires centering perspectives that have been marginalized. It's decolonial theory as intellectual liberation, not intellectual closure.

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