Was Voltaire a racist?

Voltaire was also a virulent anti-Semite, referring to the Jewish people as "calculating animals," "plagiarists in everything," and "the biggest tramps who have ever spoiled the face of the earth." He was also a Eurocentric racist, an (former) Islamophobe, and derided Africans as "less intelligent than apes. read more

He was a severe Indophile; he believed India to be the greatest nation on earth at the time. Believing one race superior to another is the definition of racism. Also, he believed that native Americans were sub human. read more