| | | I understand why you chose “Immanuel Kant” as your thread name, like Kant, you are racist.
”So what, exactly, did Kant say that makes me confident enough to call him a racist? Oddly, no annotated bibliography of Kant’s racism exists. A significant portion of the literature focuses on Kant’s racist comments in his Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime to the exclusion of the rest of his collected works (Kants gesammelte Schriften). In what follows, I have done my best to compile every one of Kant’s racist claims towards Africans in the gesammelte Schriften
In addition to claiming that Africans are vain and stupid, Kant argued that they are only capable of trifling feelings, incapable of any form of education other than learning how to be a slave, and lack a “drive to activity” and “mental capacities to beself-motivated and successful.” Quoting Hume, Kant wrote that no Negros have ever shown talents or presented anything of praiseworthy quality in art or science.” Kant discouraged interracial reproduction, discussed the best way to whip Moors, and claimed that blacks are “so talkative they must be driven apart from each other with thrashings.
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