Enlightenment

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

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- 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.
> >
> > - edit -
> >
> > > Coming from a society where racism is an inherent part of
> > > society,
> >
> > 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.

Sorry. I should have changed the name of this subthread sooner.
I wrote it because I felt the point was important.


Torsten