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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 13 Apr 2018

      [glances at racial domination, native extermination, and the expropriation of land and labor by “enlightened” nations across the globe] hmmmm.....pic.twitter.com/7zUL79Lkpd

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    2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 13 Apr 2018

      any account of the Enlightenment that doesn’t acknowedge how those ideas helped build systems of racial and colonial domination is woefully incomplete at best

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2018
      Replying to @jbouie

      Yep, and in particular Locke was a defender of both slavery and theft of Native land.

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        2. Brad Proctor‏ @bdproctor 13 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Yep. Locke wrote most of the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which explicitly listed "negro slaves" outside of the category of "person." http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc05.asp …pic.twitter.com/FU9C7uwmEO

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        1. Medicinal Fudge 🐺‏ @guiltyb0b 13 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          But what about The Story We Tell About John Locke?

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        2. Jeffrey Sachs‏ @JeffreyASachs 13 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Incidentally, this how we should respond to Jordan Peterson & Co.’s claim that all contemporary Left politics is irredeemably tainted by Stalin and Mao. You call yourself a classical liberal? Have I got some bad news for you.

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        3. Bill D‏ @williamjdewall 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @JeffreyASachs @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Wow, you’re an imbecile.pic.twitter.com/0ozlzHzsko

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        2. Ginny Robinson-Brown‏ @ginny811 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          You have to understand the times tho—slavery couldn’t be conflated with what we view as racism today, it muddies the waters. It’s wholly disingenuous to call everyone back then who supported slavery a racist yet ignore the heart of what caused slavery to be accepted-economics.

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        3. Daniel Meersand‏ @DanMeersand 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @ginny811 @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Just stop talking.

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        1. Joseph Hertzlinger‏ @jhertzli 2 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          He was a defender of land reform? Will you next claim Henry George was racist?

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