[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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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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to put it bluntly: racism is an enlightenment idea, whose foundations were laid by key thinkers like Locke and Kant
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this doesn’t make the Enlightenment bad, but it does mean you can’t uncritically say things like “it brought human flourishing.” it brought flourishing for some, domination for others.
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Don’t forget our boy David Hume! ‘I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all other species of men to be naturally inferior to the whites’
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lol I was just in the process of grabbing my copy off the shelfpic.twitter.com/Or0CwDqC1t
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Stamped From the Beginning does a wonderful job of covering all this.
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except for all the good it did... Just one example : Enlightenment ideas were what ended legitimacy of slavery , which had lasted in every large-scale society since prehistory . Conquest, exploitation, and predation persisted *despite* the Enlightenment, not because of it...
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