1. Worth looking at @jbouie's feed for today as he deals with nimrods & knuckleheads who can't grasp simple historical connection (attested to by many historians) between ideological racism & Enlightenment.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1002913913476874240 …
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13. Completely agree here. The point is not to jettison Enlightenment (impossible in any case since it is too formative) but to improve by critique:https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1003029377423032320 …
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14. * Footnote on Locke: this is the paper that is revising consensus on Locke & slavery. Linkage of slavery with monarchy is very interesting & suggestive:https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/122/4/1038/4320238?redirectedFrom=fulltext …
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15. I want to say one last thing about the way this Enlightenment business played out on twitter. What seems to have sparked this off is this thread by
@jbouie which offended@bdomenechhttps://twitter.com/jbouie/status/984813256345780224 …
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@jbouie original thread was a response to a David Brooks column which claimed Locke (or, cagily "a story we tell about Locke") "paved the way for human equality, pluralism, democracy, capitalism" etc.pic.twitter.com/LZctq03F7k
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17. Now, Brooks claim might be defensible if it at least acknowledged all the ways Locke was not a champion of "human equality" etc. (he denied natives had land rights, was complicit in slavery, had very hedged view of Catholic civil rights, etc.)
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18. Brooks himself seems to know grand claim he's making is, in scholarly terms, bullshit. That's why he had hedge: "That belief, championed by John Locke, or a story we tell about Locke, paved the way for human equality": "a story we tell about Locke." LOL
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19. Now,
@jbouie is an extremely careful & conscientious writer with a much better grounding in scholarship than most journalists. The stuff he tweeted out was very mainstream intellectual historyShow this thread -
20. The guy who went after Bouie is Ben Domenech, a very dubious character, who was able to send chittering flying monkeys, almost all of who argued in bad faith or ignorance, to harass Bouie for a whole day. That's twitter for you.
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