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)
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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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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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if one wanted to keep track of new developments in academic history, should one subscribe to this journal? or some other journal? or do some other thing?
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I think jstor website is good about posting topical, interesting academic articles.
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Losurdo covers this well in “Liberalism: a Counter-History” (2006). Carolina constitution etc
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Been thinking re possible link re passive obedience and slavery...wonder if I'll find it here...
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