Thinking that racism (or for that matter QAnon) is a case of fringe ideas infiltrating the otherwise wholesome mainstream of American thought misses that supposed mainstream & supposed fringe are in constant communication & exchange.
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My point about "bad ideas" was more subtle. Locke's Essay on Human Understanding sought how to separate truth from falsehood. The link to Qanon? Ideas that are false can be influential, sometimes even toxic. They are part of history. But later scholars might well ignore them.
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it's also undermined by her own essay: as she points out, the "fringe" here were... The flipping king and his brother
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