How universal! "Locke was also familiar with the English High Court decisions that had justified slavery only for aliens. He therefore urged that the children of ‘negroes’ and ‘Indians’ should be ‘baptised, catechised, and bred Christians’."
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"Similarly, in his much-vaunted Letters on Toleration, he managed to find reasons to exclude Catholics and atheists, so that the only proposed beneficiaries of toleration were dissenting Protestants like himself." https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/locke-treatise-slavery-private-property/ …
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Makes him complicit
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The West and all of its great minds until the 20th century were entangled in slavery. In the 20 th century it’s mere colonial racism.
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