Reddit reviews Knowledge and the Sacred

>I know that this is not true because blackness is associated with night time, when crimes are typically carried out.

You're also glossing over ancient, medieval, and fairly recent medical "science". Historically, Europeans honestly thought that night air was fundamentally different from daytime air. They believed that night air carried serious diseases and plagues. This belief was known as the Miasma theory.

It also ignores theology, which isn't limited to Europe. Concepts like the Islamic concept of luminosity, which holds that things are morally light or dark depending on their degree of separation from god / whatever ultimate end there is are common in Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. SJWs go batshit crazy when you bring up Islamic mysticism in language, particularly when you point to the fact that Arabic had a major influence on French, Spanish, and Portuguese thanks to their presence on the Iberian peninsula from 711 until 1492.

If you speak up and mention this, they will essentially use a combination of well poisoning and ad hominem attacks ("you're making me feel unsafe" - a common shaming tactic) to shut you up. You need to remember that you're in a field of study that begins with the answer and searches for the question. When I was stuck in one of these courses, I literally did no more than ignore the readings, take Marxist documents and CTRL+F "capitalism" and "class" and auto-replace it with "patriarchy", "gender", "Euro-centricism". I got a 98 in the class...