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minus-squareinfuziSporg [e/em/eir]hexbear1·4 years agoLeft and right wing economics are modern ideas; there is no timeless logic underlying them and their substance does not recur throughout history. Take the Romans, for instance. They just didn't know any better! It was a different time. The idea of equality hadn't been invented yet. link
minus-squareread_freire [they/them]hexbear1·4 years ago The idea of equality hadn’t been invented yet. Whiteness either, so we got a north african emperor. Just wish they'd never left England or the world would be a better place. link
minus-squareinfuziSporg [e/em/eir]hexbear1·4 years agoThere couldn't have been any conceptualization of that. Trying to even apply our modern understanding of ethnicity to this situation is like using completely different units of measurement and saying they’re the same. link
Left and right wing economics are modern ideas; there is no timeless logic underlying them and their substance does not recur throughout history.
Take the Romans, for instance. They just didn't know any better! It was a different time. The idea of equality hadn't been invented yet.
Whiteness either, so we got a north african emperor. Just wish they'd never left England or the world would be a better place.
There couldn't have been any conceptualization of that.
Trying to even apply our modern understanding of ethnicity to this situation is like using completely different units of measurement and saying they’re the same.