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I have news for you bro. The OG American Revolutionary Liberals were not racialists because that wasn't a major factor in their thinking. Political philosophy based entirely around race didn't make sense for anyone at the time. It would have been nonsense for Royalists & Monarchists who formed multi-ethnic dynastic empires, and it wasn't a major part of Liberalism.
Pioneers and Liberals from America settling Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and the rest of the midwest were not racialists, particularly the Revivalist Christian ones who included inter-racial marriages to Blacks, Indians, Germans, French, and Irish. Christianity was a major portion of this line of thinking.
I'll give you this. You're right. This entire concept comes from the creation and discovery of Free Market Economics at a very specific time, among a very specific people. The collapse of Feudalism gave rise to "Capitalism" in two places: France and England. It is only with England that Christian, Protestant, Individualism mixed with Free Market Economics and a distrust of Governmental authority in both Parliament and the Monarchy where such a system as Liberalism could have ever emerged. The tie between individualism and private property, the idea that you own yourself and are therefore you own sovereign, is a uniquely English invention of a very specific time.
Even the French never really understood the concept. Other places like Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the US gained this culture through Anglicanization.
The rise of free people in human systems, with governments that focus on restraining themselves to protect the rights of the individual to promote peace and growth, is almost entirely a fluke of the strange world that 1600's England just so happened to inhabit, with a very peculiar set of circumstances that really no one else in the world could have had.
Human liberty is a fluke. Had the English been properly subjugated by the French, the Danes, the Germans, or even the Irish; there is no chance that such a system would have ever been replicated at the same time. Liberalism, emerging naturally from technological development, might not even be possible until the 21st or 22nd century.
America, New England specifically, is even more of a fluke of history because it was colonized by English people who were hardened moralists, and didn't trust the imperial government (even parliament) to provide for them since they felt abandoned by both Parliament & the King as veterans of the English Civil War settled in a wild continent that required them to find their own way... and they did.
That culture is not White, it's not even British, it's almost exclusively English. The good news is, you don't have to be English to learn it.
Okay, well, I didn't get to that until now.
One of those writings that come from the English and their Christendom have something about loving thy neighbor and shit, right?