Where on Earth did you get the idea that the average Africans’ IQ is 70?
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From questionable IQ studies that white nationalist/racist love to bring up
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What a stupid argument.
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Care to elaborate?
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Because the principle invented and championed by Western minds & culture has been universally adopted it can't be identified with Western culture? What's there to elaborate? It is a stupid, politically motivated, non-sequitur.
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I agree that Enlightenment values originate in the West. I don’t think Pinker is saying what you think he is saying. The Enlightenment can be both founded in the West and go on to be universally adopted and no longer associated with just one culture.
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And yet ... "Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy. When we think about very large communities such as nations, the challenge is extraordinary and the threat of moral entropy is intense." —
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To elaborate further ... Why Secular Liberalism isn't Liberal, by Forfare Davis via
@ubookman http://kirkcenter.org/index.php/book …
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A case can be made that the East did not express itself nor share in Enlightenment ideals but in a collective mysticism in which neither reason nor the autonomous individual flowered.
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Haitian slaves fought (and defeated) the French (!) with the newly minted 'Declaration on the Rights...' in their pockets? 1804.
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That was a full on genocide.
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In 1804, the leader of the revolution ordered the extermination of all French people on the island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines#Mass_killings …
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Ah. Yes. That is after the revolution, yes. When Toussaint L'Ouverture was captured by the French on a false promise of negotiation. 3-5000 people were killed. Before that though, the French plantation owners are estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of African slaves.
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The French colonization of Haiti was known to be the most brutal slavery system in the world. Mothers would kill their infants instead of letting them grow up in that system. The French imported more than a million slaves, whom they didn't expect to live that long.
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It was bad all around, yes. But just to clarify, you are making an argument in favor of genocide.
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lol. how so?
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We know the writes of Aristotle and the Classical Greek because Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) doesn't change to the latin, and continued studying Classics and translate them to the syriac, they had contact with paper in china with the silk road, what makes them cheaper...
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and in the muslim culture, they doesnt burned books like in europe during the middle age for being pagans. They readed them and discused philosphy like Ibn Sina or Averroes and that wast against coran and they made the first catarats surgery...and so on
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the point is, enlightment and modern sicence isnt start up in western europe from nowhere with Descartes and then Kant, there were a tecnique, philosofic, and social conditions to make it posible
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But you cant say that i saw that ideas in other escenarios so dosent belong to no one and is universal thats an methodological error, social history doesnt work like that
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