This is the point where you loose the thread because the enlightenment isn't the cause of this at all, the enlightenment was the tiniest, merest blip of rationalism in the unending centuries of incantatism.
The moment was brief and glorious and of fucking course the people who crushed it had to steal its language and pretend to be carrying the torch of rationality.
The truth is the enlightenment died as swiftly as it came, and it's promise was forgotten until about 30 years ago, were again it lasted maybe a decade before being snuffed out with exteme prejudice.
Rationalism isnt an ideology, its a framework for decision making, and recognizing whether all people are or are not capable of it is fundamental to its nature. If the conclusion is that blacks as a class simply can't be taught, the enlightenment doesn't give them voting rights anyway because muh dignaty. Quite the contrary.
This is the point where you loose the thread because the enlightenment isn't the cause of this at all, the enlightenment was the tiniest, merest blip of rationalism in the unending centuries of incantatism.
The moment was brief and glorious and of fucking course the people who crushed it had to steal its language and pretend to be carrying the torch of rationality.
The truth is the enlightenment died as swiftly as it came, and it's promise was forgotten until about 30 years ago, were again it lasted maybe a decade before being snuffed out with exteme prejudice.
Rationalism isnt an ideology, its a framework for decision making, and recognizing whether all people are or are not capable of it is fundamental to its nature. If the conclusion is that blacks as a class simply can't be taught, the enlightenment doesn't give them voting rights anyway because muh dignaty. Quite the contrary.