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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Cathy Young  🇺🇦

    Othello was subject to xenophobia (that's a big part of play) but he was a general married to a woman we'd now call white. His marriage would've been impossible in many parts of USA from circa 1660s-1967. Why? Laws shaped by proto-Englightenment & Enlightenment racism.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1003104583474974720 …

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    Cathy Young  🇺🇦Verified account @CathyYoung63
    2. In "Othello" (1603), there's a lot of evidence that Othello, despite being a Christian & a Venetian general, is viewed as racially different. Iago, Brabantio, & Roderigo all think Desdemona's attraction to him is "unnatural."
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      2. Robby Karol (but from Earth 8)‏ @robbykarol 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Also, wouldn't "moor", to Elizabethan audiences, have been more likely to denote Othello's religious & cultural background as other, rather than his skin color?

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      3. InvidiousDistinction‏ @InvidiousDist 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @robbykarol @HeerJeet

        Othello's skin color was a large component of his character. Othello's different skin color was a metaphor of how different he was from the other characters.

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      2. The Wife Respecter‏ @PrimiSecundi 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I see another thing these folks can’t help themselves but to do, but it should be noted that nobody is having this conversation to discredit the enlightenment, especially on the left. It’s being done to explain how systems of power originate/develop.

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      3. left-wing populist‏ @lw_populist 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @PrimiSecundi @HeerJeet

        Yeah, they are. The point is to discredit precisely the best parts of the Enlightenment

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      2. Monarda B. Allen‏ @MonardaB 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        That’s a stretch. Those Jim Crow laws post date the Enlightenment, don’t you think?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @MonardaB

        No, many of them started in 1600s and 1700s, during age of discovery & Enlightenment

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      1. Dan Polovina‏ @danpolovina 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        And, you know, he wasn't a lifelong slave because of it

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      2. InvidiousDistinction‏ @InvidiousDist 3 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This is how Iago described Othello's sexual relationship with Desdemona to Desdemona's father, "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. " The hostility towards Othello was racism not xenophobia.

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      3. Prehistoric Yankee‏ @earlyamhistory 3 Jun 2018
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        Winthrop Jordan covered this in White Over Black. Blackness as different and problematic goes back before the early modern period. Black as a distinct race inferior to whites emerges with the age of exploration and the development of the Atlantic slave trade.

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