share all of our views is used against and some of the thinkers who we credit in the west as being people they came up with the concept of rationalism and reason in france, david who in the united kingdom and many more what is it about this complete clearing away of the intellectual terrain. >> in my experience of people who attack all of the dead white male philosophers you would expect at the very least would've read all the prominent people of color authors but i find often that is not true for example have the read martin luther king's essay my pilgrimage to nonviolence where he lays out who he got his philosophy from and who does he name plato, aristotle, hobbes, bensalem, big section on marx