I am not supporting Hanania’s point at all but you were including Kant on a list of serious and canonical (as opposed to trashy) big names of the intellectual Mt. Rushmore of white nationalism.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
White nationalism owes something to biological racism. I don't see why that's a shocking or upsetting claim.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You were making a stronger claim than that. You're not saying white nationalism owes something to the broader phenomenon of white racism (an obviously true claim). You're saying if you wanna read a good fascist/white nationalist author (if only to critique), here are some guys.pic.twitter.com/pdl79nF0kM
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
The fact you refer to white nationalism's debt to biological racism and suggest Kant is likely their source (even if it is an adjustment to your original claim) is ironic given how so many fascists/racists (inc. Schmitt) reject Kantian liberalism in favor of fascism/nationalism.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
One specific reason I deliberately included Kant is that I think it's a mistaken genealogy that sees liberalism as totally unconnected to racism & white nationalism.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I didn’t say you said that was the only reason to read these authors, but you made a list for a hypothetical curriculum of white nationalist and fascist authors, that is, authors who are part of the genealogy of white nationalism and fascism, and you included Kant in that canon.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
Yeah, if you want to understand white nationalism and fascism you have to understand the intellectual roots of biological racism.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
No one is opposing the claim that Enlightenment thinkers didn’t help in advancing biological racism; this wasn’t even part of the original conversation. If I wanted to take a class on the modern roots of racism I could very well read samples from a host of 18th/19th c. thinkers.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
But I think this is to significantly move the goalpost from where your original statements were, I.e. saying that there are thinkers which are *evidently* fascists/white nationalism on the curriculum, e.g. Kant, Schmitt, Heidegger, Calhoun.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
Also, to say that Kant adhered to biological racism (true) and to say that his liberal thought is important to the development of white nationalism/fascism are two different things. I believe the latter claim is significantly harder to defend.
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We will have to just disagree on this point. I don't think it's such an implausible argument.
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