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Hegel and Race

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Isn't Hegel's Anti-Racism a Radical Idea?

I really like this idea that the thought exceeds the person and the person doesn't live up to the thought. But isn't her point even more that this thing infects the thought from the beginning? Yeah. And you can't then abstract the thought from it. Like there is no point in Hegel's dialectic, not only does he not mention Africa or blackness or race, but he doesn't even endorse an anti-racist position. So I think it's pretty clear that that's just not correct.

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