Race is our built in team jerseys, I’m sure primitive man had more empathy with persons who resembled himself.
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
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Not really. We're tribal creatures. Look at the hunter gatherer tribes discovered in places like the Amazon; or even go as far as Apes with which we share a common ancestor. While certain interaction happens, there is a definite tendency to identify outsiders and be wary.
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The Enlightenment brought forth humanism, liberalism, and universalism as pillars of intellectual thought which specifically countered the xenophobic and supremacist mentality of most traditional ideologies.
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Humanism and universalism dates back to the Renaissance and the Reformation. Liberalism, sure. But liberalism is currently running on Pinker’s euphemism treadmill on full incline and speed thanks to modern “Enlightened” thought.
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Humanism was coined in 1808 by Neithammer to describe a contemporary movement of "classical education" and was later used as a descriptive term for what is now called Renaissance Humanism, which was also a revival of Greek thought, but it is mostly an Enlightenment term.
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Universalism has come in many forms, one being the Christian Universalism to which you refer, but as a philosophical concept it is most closely associated with the works of Immanuel Kant and his Categorical Imperative, which is solidly within Enlightenment thought.
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Liberalism and American political liberalism are two distinct and separate things; though both are concerned with universal rights and freedoms, the political tradition is muddied by political attempts to force adherence to particular visions of inclusion and ideology.
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The idea that "racism goes back millennia" goes against historical consensus (ancient & medieval precursors were, at best, proto-racism). But you generally have contempt for historians, so it doesn't matter.
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"Proto-racist" is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Most hunter-gatherer tribes use the same word for "human" as member of their tribe. Members of other tribes are often not even considered human beings. The lines of demarcation were different, but the past was way more racist
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It's "proto-racist" because that way we don't have to count it, and we can blame racism on the enlightenment. It's the absurdity of the "noble savage" writ large, a political distinction to empower demonization of European culture.
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Certain enlightenment thinkers were racist. Therefore, the enlightenment gave rise to racism. That’s about the quality of thinking on display in this thread.
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Racism has been present in every society that ever existed on Earth. But that, of course, doesn't fit the "White privilege" theorists who want to fragment our country into
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The Arab world is not really influenced by Enlightenment and Darwinisme and they are also racist.And what about Asia.
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Asia is paternalistic and sexist but without the approval of God (Judeo derived like Jehovah, Allah etc ) imo much harder to justify/continue into 21th century. Oppression of one sex over another in Asia mostly based on economic terms, ie wealth, educ ... much easier to erase
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Tell that to all the South Koreans freaking out about Yemen refugees.
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@MarkKoyama Balder Indeed Best 2 get 1's pattern recog fr the 4.54 billion yrs of evolution as more fundamental & has far greatr explanatory reach thn patterns in human history Think out-grouping likely, in part, an immune response to parasite load. See attachd fr Robert Triverspic.twitter.com/sdMXejKmwA
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