[ SECRET POST #4538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4538 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

It's tricky because "racism" in the common parlance doesn't really have a precise meaning. And so, yes, it's absolutely true that all kinds of prejudice, bigotry, xenophobia, etc were practiced throughout human history.

At the same time, it's also the case that there's a marked difference between those forms of prejudice and what we would understand today as racism, and that this differentiation doesn't exist before the 19th or maybe the 18th century. Prejudice before that is generally cultural, religious, linguistic, etc. The idea of races as general, broad, physical categories into which all of the people of the earth can be grouped, which are more than just individual tribes or nations, and in which certain peoples are confined to inherent inferiority - that way of thinking about race is absolutely a historical development at a specific point in time. And that's sort of what people mean when they talk about racism as a specific kind of prejudice, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

True, but that's just rationalizing what was a culturally constructed caste system. The fact that racism is radically different across the Americas, the historic one drop rule, and the reality that skin color has very little relationship to DNA groupings just demonstrate how thin of a pretense that is.