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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Ross Douthat

    Again there is truth here (abolitionism was rooted in religious sentiment and radical politics that was often outside the Enlightenment consensus)https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1003090955807969280 …

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    And if you're one of the many people who apparently believe some variation on "the Enlightenment and only the Enlightenment gave us the tools to critique racism and abolish slavery," please read more books.
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      2. Anime Girl Yohanan Ben Zakkai‏ @OldDreyfusard 2 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        On the other hand, there were certain Enlightenment achievements which were explicitly the result of Enlightenment thought. The end of censorship, suffrage, the end of anti-Jewish codes, etc, were all pushed for by people operating under explicitly Enlightenment principles.

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      3. Anime Girl Yohanan Ben Zakkai‏ @OldDreyfusard 2 Jun 2018
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        At the same time that Macaulay was arguing for expanding oppression in India, he was advocating for ending the rotten boroughs system and lifting legal restraints on Jews in politics.

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      1. Jacob Margolies‏ @thecob82 2 Jun 2018
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        And the civil rights movement 100 years later too.

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      1. Jafpro 🔥‏ @Jafpro_16 2 Jun 2018
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        Not exactly. Diderot was one of the very few openly atheist philosophers and he categorically condemned slavery. Furthermore, while many abolitionists in America were deeply religious, so too were the cruelest of slave masters according to Frederick Douglas: @DouthatNYTpic.twitter.com/NpgkohTq7p

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      1. D‏ @Zman1863 2 Jun 2018
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        and even within the non abolitionist mainstream you had people like Lincoln who definitely were influenced by the Enlightenment, but filtered through a number of factors like frontier education and life that put a more modern spin on it

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      1. B Ehrfurth‏ @B_Ehrfurth 2 Jun 2018
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        The mistake is to think that either religious thought or Enlightenment thought are monoliths. Both are enormous and diverse groups containing racist, anti-racist, and part racist/part anti-racist sentiments.

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      1. Stephen‏ @StAdkison 2 Jun 2018
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        I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Make Chrisitianity Post-Millennial Again

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