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Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman

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The Enlightenment and the Age of Empire

Susan Neiman is the author of Left Is Not Woke. She says that for many left wing thinkers, the enlightenment is synonymous with the blood stained era of colonialism. Neiman counters that central figures of the enlightenment opposed colonialism even if their impact was limited. "What it did do was to give colonialists a bad conscience"

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