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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The idea that "racism goes back millennia" goes against historical consensus (ancient & medieval precursors were, at best, proto-racism). But you generally have contempt for historians, so it doesn't matter.
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Sigh. The people who actually study this stuff find it useful to distinguish between biological racism & other forms of prejudice. Their hard-earned scholarship deserves more respect than the off-hand contempt of people who haven't read it.
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Google is your friend.
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