• dogslayeggs
    24 months ago
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    Yeah, but if he existed he would almost certainly have been a person of color.

    • masquenox
      -34 months ago
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      Not really there was no such thing as “white” back then - which mean no “people of colour, either.

      He would definitely be classified as such according to the totally rational race caste system we can’t seem to exist without today.

      • dogslayeggs
        34 months ago
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        Wait, are you trying to say that northern Europeans didn’t exist 2000 years ago? Or are you trying to say that people back then didn’t discriminate based on skin color?

        • masquenox
          64 months ago
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          that northern Europeans didn’t exist 2000 years ago?

          “White” is an invented thing - and a pretty recent one, too. There is no such thing as a “white” race - not today, nor 2000 years ago. It only exists in the head of a person that has been taught to see the world through the lens of white supremacism - ie, “scientific racism” - which we are almost all subjected to from birth no matter our (supposed) “race.