Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Put differently, rational planning isn't what caused Nazis to conceive of an extermination project. It gave them the tools to do so more effectively, but that doesn't mean mass murder is the necessary outgrowth of the idea of rational administration or managing populations — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Nuances here (obviously, in this conversation). I think the "Enlightenment invented racism" argument is on much stronger empirical footing than "Enlightenment caused the Holocaust" argument, the latter of which has encouraged a kind of troubling indifference to democracy. — PolitiTweet.org