1) I wish folks who describe themselves as "classical liberals" would sketch out any real distinction with "21st century American conservatives" 2) Even accepting the premise, the person who gets so mad at being labeled "alt-right" that they become a racist was already a racist.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/995007152468250626 …
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Well, so were a lot of historical social liberals, socialists, and communists, so, I'm not sure how relevant that is. (But Bouie's point stands.)
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i mean the point is that racism is a product of the Enlightenment and that it can’t actually be disentangled from liberalism’s origins, or if it can be, you have to fundamentally rethink what liberalism is
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Some of them were also socialists, i.e. Mill.
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Isn't that just another way of saying they were white people who lived in the 18th century?
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No -- Locke's arguments for dispossessing Natives & Jefferson's biological racism were contested even in 18th century by other whites.
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If they’re classical liberals then I’m a radical republican. To madame la guillotine!
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The classical liberal obsession with rationally deriving their politics from logical first principles was, I suspect, a way of avoiding having to deal with an empirical reality incompatible with their desired politics.
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Yeah. That's the point. Liberalism was meant to reform or coexist within existing systems like Monarchy, Aristocracy, Colonialism, White Supremacy, Slavery, and Male Supremacy. LEFTISM was designed to destroy those systems.
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JS Mill did not extend liberty to the immature Indians though he did not think we were congenitally inferior. Social Darwinism had not yet been established as with the archaeologist Isaac Taylor
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