What was the Enlightenment Rational for racism

>why did educated European men during the 18th century have a dislike for Africans/blacks?

because they were smart?

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>>2197794

>European society is better, freer and more advanced than any other in existence
>society is made up of people
>therefore it's the people who determine how good/advanced a society is
>ergo, primitive societies/less advanced societies are that way because their people are less intelligent, less civic minded, more violent, etc.

There was still respect for Arab/Asian societies due to their prior accomplishments and contemporary systems of organization (Voltaire in particular had a boner for China) but there wasn't much redeeming about sub-Saharan Africans due to the only interactions between the two being procurement of slaves and limited trading.

>>2197830
but the reason Sub Saharian African never developed was because of geographical determinism via Jared Diamond's thesis

They valued men for being capable of thought instead of for just being men like today, which is of course a much more rational, less naive position

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>>2197838

>Jared Diamond
Here we go again

>>2197830
>tfw humans have existed for 100000 years
>tfw not a single Indiaboo has existed since that time

Inb4 poo

>>2197794
The entire middle east still thinks blacks are subhumans.

black people are funny looking

>>2197876
Wasn't there an honourable black guy called bilal?isn't that Haram ?

Black people are mean

>>2197854
What? There were plenty of indiaboos throughout history.

>>2197838

That has absolutely nothing to do with what people during the 18th century thought unless you're going to make an argument for Montesquieu.

>>2197948
so the enlightenment people were wrong then?

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>>2197922
Name one

>>2197982
Schopenhauer

because africa was literally in the iron age when Europeans came over

it was Alien Invasion Tier differences

>>2197991
He was a fan of Indian philosophy. Not an Indian boo like weaboos are.

>>2197806
fpbp

>>2197982
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)

The guy who discovered the PIE links.

>>2197982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indology#List_of_Indologists

>one minute google foo

>just kys

>>2197794
>why did educated European men during the 18th century have a dislike for lazy violent savages with an average IQ of 70 who never created anything of value throughout their entire history
>for NO reason
Hmm, I really wonder why.

>>2197838
Or because of lower IQ.

Because, for the first time in history, the boundaries of the world were finally marked, and these men could look at world history as a grand subject to be scrutinized scientifically.

What they saw coming from Africa (except Egypt) was not impressive.

>>2198206
Mathematics, Science, Philosophy began in Africa though

>>2198278
WE

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>>2198278
>all of Africa is the same people

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for example....name one white person in history that was as smart as Benjamin Banneker

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>>2198337
Leonardo da Vinci

>Be well-to-do European man in the 18th century
>Whisk yourself away to sub-saharan Africa
Now don't look at it through your "well who's to say this way of doing things is inherently better" subjectivist mindset but that of the aforementioned gentlemen
>The land is undeveloped and everyone is running around half-naked poking each other with spears

>>2198349
Da Vinci was half arab

>>2198433
{{citation needed}}

>>2198433
Nahnu al-Italiai wa shieeeet

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ITT: Dump cunts forgetting about Rousseau's huge boner for primitive cultures, noble savage you dinguses.

Other than Rousseau, other Enlightenment figures believed that the Enlightenment's principles should only apply to people who knew how to effectively live in and further the progress of a society. This logic led them to deny a lot of right to women as well.

>>2198439
i thought there was a theory that Da Vinci's mother was a Arab slave that was transported to Italy or something

>>2199221
Da Vinci (as should be obvious from his name) came from da hood of south central but whitey keep da truf from coming out.

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>>2197982

>>2197982

only the fuckin' beatles man

>>2199221
Debunked pseudoscience. They found one trait in his fingerprint that shows up in 60% of Arabs, and that was enough to publish that bogus theory

>>2197806
this

>>2200138
so it was debunked?

>>2200643
It was never based on meaningful evidence in the first place. Essentially something they pulled out of their ass.

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>>2197982

>>2200647
lol

>>2197794
Imagine having sailing ships, and cities like Florence or Paris, and discovering a contient where a bunch of black skinned faggots still live like prehistorical apes

There's a reason why Europeans considered nogs to be subhumans, but didnt think that of Arabs or East Asians
There's a reason why Arabs have always regarded nogs as subhumans as well

>>2197794
Social Darwinism really. Herbert Spencer made an addition on Darwins theory of survival of the fittest. he implemented it on human society. it really justified Imperialism and the attitude against blacks because its just natural selection to them. we where the first to break trough the malthus cycle that states that when the population increases the food production can't follow. by industrialising we broke that cycle and made us feel superior.

>>2197854
Plenty of Indiaboos exist
Here's an article about Indiabooism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia

>>2198415
Lol he'd die pretty quick due to disease also which part did he go to?

>>2201313
>prehistorical apes
What?

>>2201313
Arab opinion wasn't universal to all Africa though.

Why are people still meeting about this they had different opinions on several parts.

>>2201419
The guy doesn't know shit what he is talking about.

>>2201426
t. Tyrone

>>2201420
>Arab opinion wasn't universal to all Africa though.
Neither was European opinion.

>>2201420
I was obviously refering to Subsaharan (black) Africa, the one that never developped past prehistory until whitey arrived
North (Berber/Arab) Africa needs no apply

>>2201446
>developped past prehistory
What do you mean anon? They did develop past hunter gathers. Unless you think being in the iron age is enough of a reason for their feelings at the time, why muddle the definition?

>>2201431
I know that but people tend to pick out those sentiments by certain Arab men as a "hey even Arabs think Africans are shit" thing.