The Enlightenment Gave Rise to Racism? Balderdash. Mark Koyama shows that racism goes back millennia, and was amplified by the nationalist particularism of the *Counter*-Enlightenment, not the universalism of the Enlightenment. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/did-the-enlightenment-give-rise-to-racism/ … via @liberalcurrents
"The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage." - ibn khaldun That enlightenment figure Ibn Khaldun.