EP. 08 The Classics
Uncancelled History
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Aristotle's Hierarchical Society
Aristotle envisioned a hierarchical society where everyone had their proper place from fully enfranchised citizens all the way down to slaves. That seems to be a way of organizing society that was replicated in India and China all over Africa. I get this kind of, this sense from what he's trying to say is that it doesn't matter that other people did the same things. This is a sin of retroactive whiteness that is the only relevant. It's astonishing because again it's the same way of thinking that the actual racists apply. No one else has agency.
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