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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I did, and the contrast between it and what Bouie has been spouting on Twitter is a grim demonstration of how otherwise intelligent people have gotten hooked on the lucrative Jordan Peterson two-step: say bullshit-get dragged-insist you said anodyne thing
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It's also notable that for a piece that was hashed out on Twitter, he fails to reckon w/the most important question raised: Was racism a product of the Enlightenment, or was it like epicycles, a desperate attempt to fit inconvenient facts in a rickety philosophical frame?
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And there the point he gestures at w/ref's to Haiti, but can't pursue: Did the Enlightenment invent both racism (if not prejudice or slavery), but also abolitionism, the idea that *no* people should be enslaved?
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And he commits the usual modern journalist sin when looking at intellectual history: treating everything a philosopher wrote as part of a single project, all inseparable as an idea.
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I also wish he had put a little more energy into comparing how racism, slavery, and abolitionism developed outside of the Enlightenment cultures, from the Kingdom of Mali to the Comache, but perhaps that's asking too much.
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