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To: CheshireTheCat

What did David Hume say about race? Was he nasty about the Irish or the French?


20 posted on 09/13/2020 9:41:59 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

>>What did David Hume say about race?

“I am apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites.” — Hume, in a footnote remark.


27 posted on 09/13/2020 9:56:47 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: sphinx

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel


30 posted on 09/13/2020 10:00:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: sphinx

Wikipedia is probably updating their article on David Hume as we speak to describe him as a racist.


69 posted on 09/13/2020 1:19:15 PM PDT by cymbeline
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