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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. Brent Staples‏Verified account @BrentNYT 2 Jun 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

      And a most patient person when accosted by folks indifferent to facts and history

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018
      Replying to @BrentNYT @jbouie

      Saintly patience.

      8:03 PM - 2 Jun 2018
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        1. Brent Staples‏Verified account @BrentNYT 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Agreed

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