Classical liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning as central to modern moral sense.

Evidence

Classical liberalism (which includes in its range much of the commitments of contemporary conservatism in the form of neoliberalism) thus was a key element historically in promoting racial reasoning and its racist implications as central to modernity’s common moral, sociopolitical, and jurisprudential sense. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 6

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common self-image of liberalism as the anti-racist tradition; connects to broader critiques of Enlightenment universalism in postcolonial theory. — connects to: Economic liberalism’s founder fused race hierarchies into market theory. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 112; Liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning and racist exclusions as central to state formation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1654

Related

• Liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning and racist exclusions as central to state formation. (similarity 0.90)
• Racial categories are built into Western liberal-democratic ideology itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Economic liberalism’s founder fused race hierarchies into market theory. (similarity 0.83)
• Racialism is an enduring principle of European civilization, not a modern invention (similarity 0.81)
• Racial neoliberalism reconciles personal preference with history-shaped racial constraint (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.79)
• Western rationalism itself generates racism as its necessary false consciousness. (similarity 0.79)
• Theoretical ideological racism originated in Western Europe specifically (similarity 0.79)
• European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule (similarity 0.79)
• Historicist racial thought fueled abolition while naturalism underpinned slavery (similarity 0.78)
• Neoclassical economics framed racial inequality as three forms of market disequilibrium. (similarity 0.78)
• Black liberalism frames racism as a distortion of American principles that inclusion would repair. (similarity 0.78)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.78)