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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

People who do respect these things as a whole are generally racists, so far as I understand. I think the enlightenment theorists are especially significant racists because they were around when race was invented.

As anarchists we would do well to look on the whole of modernity with disdain. Modernity itself, along with western weath, grew off of the blood and sweat of terribly oppressed people and the looting of their lands.

That said, basically any theory coming from old white guys is suspect and needs to be read with a sharp eye for racism and sexism and other garbage.

Even the poststructuralists have been marked for racism, just not of the sort that we see in times past. Spivak's essay "Can The Subaltern Speak" engages with this.

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