Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, kishore patnaik
> <kishorepatnaik09@> wrote:
> >
> > > For every such incident, I can show hundreds of such incidents
> > > happening in Britain and other racist European countries.
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> - edit -
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> > Coming from a society where racism is an inherent part of society,
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> We all come from societies where racism is or was an inherent part.
> That's an unfortunately inherent trait of humans uninformed by the
> Enlightenment.

I don't understand the reference to 'Enlightenment', although I've
seen similar instances of this use many places. The way we were taught
history in school, the Absolutist Monarchy in its last stages had a
project to educate and enlighten its citizens, seeking legitimacy that
way. That doesn't change the fact that Absolutist Monarchy was
despotism, and the absolute opposite of democracy. Enlightening in
this form is only possible under coercion.


Torsten