Confronting the Enlightenment's mistakes | Kehinde Andrews full interview

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"Confronting the Enlightenment's mistakes" - like the ideologies that gave rise to 'scholars' like this?

Anybody else hear circus music?

I’m an American Black Man Progressive Liberal, and I must say that this guy contradicts himself on key aspects of his premise.

Reason is the most important cognitive frame in the human brain. Don't forget it.

Would have been useful if you could have asked him what his understanding of the difference between rationality and reason is.

Low-brow historical revisionism and racism has no place in my feed.

Oh, it's the racist guy who has a career in legitimating racism under the guise of so called anti racism.

as soon as I heard him call the enlightenment white identity politics I stopped listening⚛😀

Is there an evidence of existance significant non-racist liberal society before enlightment europe? In other words was there a significant society which abolished slavery before Europe?

Who is the marginal nobody? To pretend Western Europe didn’t do something unique (and uniquely bad in many ways) in the 16th to 18th centuries is just absurd. This nonsense might have seemed interesting 30 to 50 years ago. But with so much riding on the outcome now to pretend Africa or Asia or Native Americans were also on a path of scientific, technological and economic development and dominance of the physical environment as well as unique power to dominate (and even destroy) each other that Western Europeans were is just irresponsible. The solution to the current global crisis isn’t going to be found in some cultural alternatives and local communities, etc. Recognizing the problem for what it is and where it came from and the ethos behind its creation is necessary for its solution. Trying to wave your hand 0:38 over western science and technology and the enlightenment and pretending that makes its unique significance go away is so irresponsible. No one says any longer that the rest of the world was in a dark age.

Sorry for this bad comment but I thought the IAI actually had standards. It's disappointing to see you invite such figures.

I would have enjoyed a presentation on mistakes of the Enlightenment. Instead I got a presentation on why wokeness is a mistake. Next time, find someone who has actually done the research, the topic is fascinating.

This is hilarious

Hasn’t it been proven that the world was originally one land mass that broke into continents? Therefore all the first people were African. Even my ancient DNA says I have genetics shared with Kenyans and West Africans. My last 5 generations were Europeans, Latin Americans… of course Missouri used to be Mexico and Native Americans are indigenous to the USA and Canada ….. so, whatever - it doesn’t really change anything in the end does it? Like your grandma or mom probably said: it’s what’s on the inside that matters.

Kant partially caused the U.N. declaration of rights and Malcolm x refers to it. Thomas Jefferson partially caused the US Constitution and Malcolm x refers to it. This is where a contradiction lies.

12:18. Anyone catch The Sex Pistols Riverboat Concert during The Queen’s Jubilee? Queen’s Jubilee sounds like Summer on Fire Island - just sayin’

"We just take the bits we like and leave the bits we don't like - that's not how knowledge works" Every philosophy which doesn't perfectly fit in the current moral view of our Zeitgeist (and by that he means his understanding of identity politics) should be discarded. What is this ridiculous and deeply regressive bs, haha?

I don't know if he is smarter than this, but this man can't really hide that he doesn't know how to read. Kant was spoken too many times here and I could barely find him. I think no one who understand at least the basic concepts of Kant will say you are better off not reading Kant, even someone who knows and is sensitive to the racist tenets beneath this historical period wouldn't say that.

is guy is not a sophisticated thinker, not nuanced, very ideological and the embodyment of woke academia