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    1. 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)

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    2. 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 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      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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    3. 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

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    4. 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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      8. One paradox is that contemporary right, by fetishizing mythical Enlightenment, cuts itself off from rich, still-pertinent conservative tradition of criticizing failures & limits of Enlightenment.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      9. Some of the earliest & sharpest observations on hypocrisy & limits of Enlightenment came from Tories & reactionaries. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Samuel Johnson owning Jefferson, 1776.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      10. In fact, a large part of what's valuable in conservatism comes from comes from reactionary critics of its false claims to universality (think of Burke contrasting abstract "rights of man" to concrete "rights of Englishmen")

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      11. (This is tangential but the discovery of the value of cultural difference & contingent identity came from the reactionary right. It's not an accident that visiting Hindus in 18th century England found hospitality in the house of Edmund Burke).

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Michael Brendan Dougherty

      12. Speaking of smart reactionaries, this is a good tweet by someone who knows what historical (as opposed to fetishized) Enlightenment was all about:https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/967226685115502592 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Michael Brendan DoughertyVerified account @michaelbd
      “He says he believes in 'Enlightenment principles.' Naturally I thought he meant political absolutism, and the duty of subjects to profess the religion of their political sovereign. But it turns out he just shares YouTube clips of atheists and anti-feminists."
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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      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 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      Replying to @DavidOttlinger @HeerJeet
      speaking only for myself, the takeaway here should be interrogating the extent to which the ideas and ideologies that grow out of the enlightenment contain race thinking (or misogynist thinking or classist thinking) and work to decolonize the ideas we like of those elements
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

          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 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
          [glances at racial domination, native extermination, and the expropriation of land and labor by “enlightened” nations across the globe] hmmmm..... pic.twitter.com/7zUL79Lkpd
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          16. @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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          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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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          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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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          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 history

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

          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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        2. Firepit Jake‏ @Jacob_E45 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @Jacob_E45

          I think jstor website is good about posting topical, interesting academic articles.

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        1. JBaumann‏ @j_baumann 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Losurdo covers this well in “Liberalism: a Counter-History” (2006). Carolina constitution etc

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        1. IrishPhilosophy‏ @IrishPhilosophy 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Been thinking re possible link re passive obedience and slavery...wonder if I'll find it here...

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