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Jesus Christ dude, you think you embody the values of the Enlightenment & western civilization? WTAF mate.
Last time I checked, the Enlightenment was a reaction to unfounded, unsourced speculation & wild fantasy.
You cast natural phenomenon as evidence of a sinister conspiracy - as anti-enlightenment as it gets, @PrisonPlanet!
Proto-Enlightenment minds such as Sir Thomas Browne devoted much of their lives to rationalising natural phenomena. 
Sir Thomas Browne actually wrote a book about crazy shit he heard - Pseudodoxia Epidemica! He tested each of the bits of 'wisdom' he found 
You and your ilk retweet and signal boost anything you hear to sell what - 'survival supplements'?
Enlightenment philosophers like Locke advocated toleration & saw it as key to prevent the sort of civil unrest tearing Europe apart. 
You, on the other hand, bait one particular race, knowing the division & conflict it causes.
You reject critical thought, nuance, context & scholarship. You reject a 400 year conversation, you are intent on dragging us into the dark.
What was your reaction to the foremost classicist in the UK correcting you on black Romans? A tantrum.
Your contribution to an AMA? Scientific racism that was debunked a few short years after the Nazis peddled it. mediamatters.org/embed/clips/20…
You ain't no defender of the Enlightenment, bruv, you're a snake oil salesman & a scared little boy making up fairytales.
So get off your moral high horse, you moralising virtue-signalling prick! (See what I did there? 😎)
I'll leave you with some Voltaire... 
PS. Get fucked!
