Who is wholly against the Enlightenment? The debate is between people who say it has complex legacy worth challenging in places and those who uncritically want to celebrate.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1004079122379886592 …
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"massively exacerbate" is a very different claim from "invented" (and must be qualified in all kinds of ways)
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I said "massively exacerbate" because people like you are willfully obtuse on the point about what inventing racism and colonialism means, pretending the argument is they were created out of whole cloth.
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And of course whether the Enlightenment invented or exacerbated those things, vs was twisted into knots to justify an exporting of feudalism, is something the relevant scholarship actually debates, rather than just asserting
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And of course one side decisively wins that debate
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