The Enlightenment Gave Rise to Racism? Balderdash. Mark Koyama shows that racism goes back millennia, and was amplified by the nationalist particularism of the *Counter*-Enlightenment, not the universalism of the Enlightenment. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/did-the-enlightenment-give-rise-to-racism/ … via @liberalcurrents
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Roman slaves were not defined by ethnicity there was widespread manumission and some descendants of slaves rose to high positions. All of which goes against racism.
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Enslavement was probably color neutral. You get conquered, you get chains.
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Is 'historical consensus' maintained in some handy reference-guide anyone can access, or is this something only you are privy to? And is there some specific, key-criteria that distinguishes "proto-racism" from Real Racism™?
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Such lack of historical imagination is dissapointing. Likewise, echoing Fred Jameson, we've seen the disappearance of genuinely dialectical thinking. I mean - stay with me - what if the Enlightenment was a complex set of discourses with both liberatory and repressive potentials?
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