Compare Brewer ("Of course Locke is merely one figure of the Enlightenment, and there were many more over two centuries. It is certainly not my purpose here to exonerate all these figures, some of whom expressed racist sentiments") with Wilentz's summary below.https://twitter.com/seanwilentz/status/1447035222848065536 …
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And drafting a slavery constitution for the North Carolina proprietors.
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it's a good piece but I think she's misrepresenting it to absolve Locke. He doesn't deny the speciation claim, merely says it'd be "a new question", & she overstates the skepticism towards such claims by ignoring how the last clause reinforces the first
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Going further, she tries to erase that the discussion, specifically, is about what constitutes a human by focusing on Locke's larger discourse around idea categorization. Her crit of Kendi's read may be accurate, but her read of the passage isnt.
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