• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        8 months ago

        I didn’t say they were the first!

        There are plenty of cultures that developed systemic racism independently, I don’t want to diminish their shittiness.

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        8 months ago

        Also very curious considering that racism as we would recognize it doesn’t have its seeds planted until the 15th century AD.

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      8 months ago

      Humans are pretty racist by default until they realise that everybody is actually also a human being. “Barbarian” is just a different word for “sub-human” that was used back then. Nowadays we use racial/ethnic/religious/housing status or whatever negative term that’s out of the person’s control to justify instead.