they’re talking about the rationalist “dark enlightenment” where you learn why your boomer parents were right to be scared of black people by skimming the abstracts of papers written by morons

I came here to post this, but yeah, pretty much.

I mean, they genuinely are onto an important kernel of truth in probing the Western liberal intellectual tradition for evidence of a deep underlying racism and proto-fascism, even if they're doing it in a philosophically illiterate way in the name of their own racist convictions. Sort of like how anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools, you could think of "dark enlightenment" as the *Liberalism: a Counter-History* by Domenico Losurdo or *The Apprentice's Sorcerer* by Ishay Landa ...of fools.