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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

You’ve clearly never read Locke because this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read (and ironically pretty prejudicial). There’s NOTHING in our constitution limiting ppl based on economics, and while racism would later influence politics, it was in NO WAY RELEVANT to the founding.

You might want to read the Constitution tho

Why would you assume that I haven’t read it?? (Or that i may or may not be such a nerd I carry a pocket constitution at all times, but I digress) Bc I disagree that it’s “racist”? It didn’t include women at first either, but that doesn’t mean they hated women.

Anyone who says "There’s NOTHING in our constitution limiting ppl based on economics" hasn't read Article V, which explicitly banned Congress from stopping the importation of slaves for twenty years after ratification.

Or Article I, which included the three-fifths clause. You can't read a Constitution that explicitly protected the international slave trade and counted slaves as 3/5 of a person and honestly say it didn't enshrine race-based economic limitations