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

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    The first mention of the word “race” in any language was in the 16th century

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    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Let me know how you figure people were discriminating by race before the concept of discrete color-based races was even invented. Putting people into boxes that hadn’t yet been defined or imagined.

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          The concept of racism predates racial categorization? Since race is a social construct (no discrete biological or genetic categories) how is that possible? Society had to construct it first before using it as a tool.

          Are you confusing xenophobia, bigotry, tribalism and ethnic persecution with racism? They are not the same thing, racism is a subset of the others and a new invention of modernity and the scientific community of the developing capitalist states