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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      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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      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      apropos some angry replies in my mentions right now, there is often a disconnect between historical and popular understandings of ideas and events, but that gap seems especially wide with the Enlightenment
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      2. There are a few details you could quibble with in @jbouie (new scholarship* has complicated our understanding of Locke & slavery) but what he's articulating is the overwhelming mainstream consensus of historians of Enlightenment.

      3 replies 12 retweets 131 likes
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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      3. This thread is good & the scholars recommended are super-salient. Key point is there is distinction between venerable phenomenon of xenophobia (distrust of other cultures) & ideological racism (posited hierarchy of humanity in age of global imperialism)

      4 replies 28 retweets 158 likes
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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      4. Here's the relevant thread with excellent recommendations:https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1002932017678422016 …

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      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      Oh, so Ben is responsible for these replies. Well Ben, my sincere advice to you is to read Nell Painter or Charles Mill or Emmanuel Eze or Cedric Robinson or George Frederickson or literally any academic work on the intellectual lineage of “race” and “racism.” https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1002705917614231552 …
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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      5. One interesting thing here is that @jbouie is looking at Enlightenment as historian does (as a complex, evolving, time-bound thing). His right-wing critics are treating it as an etherial, ahistoric talisman offering perfect wisdom on individualism, freedom, democray

      8 replies 39 retweets 320 likes
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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      6. There is a fetishization of the Enlightenment similar to way fundamentalist believers treat sacred texts: it was perfect so can't be challenged or seen as complex, ironic, paradoxical, etc. "Racism is bad," implicit logic goes, "So Enlightenment can't be racist."

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      If by racism we mean a systematic hierarchy of human difference, then proto-Enlightenment & Enlightenment did in fact event.

      2:47 PM - 2 Jun 2018
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          You're moving the goalpost

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