• PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    People have always called other people that’s different than them names. It started long before “beginning in the 15th Century of the Common Era (CE) and reaching its apex in the early 20th Century CE.”

    This article is trash.

    What happened to the other human species that were around in ancient times? They didn’t die out because of a religion that started a milinia after they were alive.

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      3 months ago

      People have always called other people that’s different than them names

      Yes, but the specific social construct of race was an invention of white Christian colonialists trying to justify their bigoted behavior and prejudices towards people with more melanin.