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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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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@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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Interesting day to tweet this, anniversary of the Mabo decision in Australia that overturned the concept of 'terra nullias' & recognised historical aboriginal land rights at settlement, now I need to look up if terra nullias came from that
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