Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

    • Yeat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i don’t really think the last two points you guys made negate each other tbh. the “inherited supremacy” shit was more of like a precursor to modern racist ideology, and aristotle definitely wasn’t referring to “white” people or “black” people as the concepts of white, black, other races, didn’t exist the way they do now.