
Hegel and Race
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Hegel Was Not Racist, He Was a Racist
In an effort to become more erudite in African studies during the 1820s, Hegel was in fact becoming dumber. And it's because, which I think makes total sense, that all the scholarship on Africa was just wholeheartedly racist. So when he started to read up on Africa, he then took on the racist ideas that he was reading from the scholars that he was, that were studying Africa. It's a fascinating kind of...
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