Aimee Terese thinks Donald Rumsfeld was Dick Cheney; Jeet Heer thinks Kant and Calhoun are on the same intellectual spectrum. The bar for being knowledgable online is low.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
Where did I say Kant and Calhoun are in the same intellectual spectrum? They were both biological racists, but that's a position affiliated with different viewpoints.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It was implied in the "rogue's gallery" of racists and fascists you inserted Kant in, that the main benefit of studying these figures was to strengthen one's mind and arguments against their political and racist ideas. The idea that that is why we should study Kant is ludicrous.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
It is *a* possible reason to study Kant, but to think Kant's most important ideas are inextricably tied to his biological racism or to think of him first and foremost as a biological racist is just silly, no matter how many people can get professional traction by claiming it.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
Again, you're arguing with claims I never made (that Kant is "first and foremost....a biological racist.") Can you focus on what I wrote and not what you think I wrote?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Every other figure on the list except Kant is known primarily by the layperson for having heinous political or racial views. A list of racist and/or fascist thinkers would include those figures; a list of philosophers with certain heinous views would include Kant, Mill, Rousseau.pic.twitter.com/nre8Q3f6YA
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
In fact, Charles Mills in the original article by Applebaum mentions Kant and Rousseau as people within the tradition who have many views he opposes and blind spots he thinks we need to be mindful and critical of, and includes them in the tradition he *locates himself within*.
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I specifically included Kant because I wanted to make clear that biological racism is part not just of the history of reactionary thinking but also the history of liberalism & enlightenment thinking. It's weird how upset people get at that obvious truth.
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