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Pure Rationalism has existed since before Christ, as has religious tolerance, and especially secularism. These are old things, deeply imbedded in human society, but it is the very colonialist expansion that resulted from the so-called Enlightenment that came to hide and even destroy these concepts, with exploitation peaking in African Slavery and Nazism. The Enlightenment in its fullness, birthed the thinkers and philosophies that hold one race superior and another inferior. In fact, it is the Enlightenment that invented the European concept of Race and Ethnicity, that defines racism itself!
The South Africans, the Indians, the South and Central Americans, the Vietnamese, were not influenced by the Enlightement, they were reacting to the fucked up situation that the shitstem puts entire peoples into.
Until Europe is no longer the standard from which the world is judged, both in history and today, then the world will remain a fucked up place.
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