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    1. 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. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 3 Jun 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I think that to describe laws passed in the late 17th Century as "proto-Enlightenment" is to stretch the argument a bit, no?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63

      No -- those laws were passed when Locke was already an adult & when Enlightenment consensus on race was coalescing. Impulse behind them (biological view of race) was proto-Enlightenment.

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        2. InvidiousDistinction‏ @InvidiousDist 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

          "Proto-enlightenment" "idelogical racism" You are moving the goal posts with these contrived words.

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        3. Sean Ernst‏ @SeanErnst 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @InvidiousDist

          Oh my god the vocabulary!

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        2. James Moughan‏ @jamougha 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

          Locke was 28 and of no note in 1660. How can you defend the claim that he invented racism on the basis that he was alive when racist laws were passed?

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        2. ieshua Ceannaideach‏ @OrigenOfSpices 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

          Timeline for Locke being influential early on here doesn't work. VA removed suit for freedom for baptized blacks in 1667. Ashley's NC Constitution which Locke was a secretary for was completed 1669.

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        3. ieshua Ceannaideach‏ @OrigenOfSpices 3 Jun 2018
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          https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/24-sla.html …

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