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Topic subjectHeinz, I will bite to explain why your position is so fucking stupid.
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13468704, Heinz, I will bite to explain why your position is so fucking stupid.
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Sep-15-22 08:14 AM
The answer is simple, you are grafting our history on a fantasy world. You are treating our ideas about race, which BTW are relatively new in the grand scheme of history, as immutable facts of life that would exist anywhere (including fantasy worlds) there were people with different skin colors. You are assuming that racism only marches in one direction, from bad to better, when that isn't even the history of this country and or very limited racial history.

For example you say this: "So i'm just supposed to believe they were MORE open to mixing with minorities in the past but for some reason got racist later on? Story wise it is very ridiculous."

Why is that so hard to believe when that's the history of our country. We go from periods of relative racial progress to severe backlash. It was better to be a Black Person in this country in 1620 than 1670 when the first black people who arrived here were treated more like indentured Servants before LATER being treated like Chattel slaves because of changes in law.

It was better to be a black person in this country during Reconstruction than it was during the Red Summer.

Like read a book before spouting some dumb shit like something would never happen when there is precedent for it to happen in our own history.

But besides that very specific point, you are displaying this assumption that skin color always equates to race and differences in race will always means there will be racism AND if there is Racism it will always a hierarchy with White skinned people on top and dark skinned people on the bottom.


THe fact is race as a concept really didn't take hold until like the 18th century and it was mainly developed and grew as a concept in support of colonization and slavery. So with just a little bit of historical knowledge about race its very easy to contemplate that in a world that DIDN'T have slavery and colonization along racial lines, wouldn't have the racial categories and hierarchy that you saw in our history. What we are tripping about is folks like you have just enough imagination to imagine a world with dragons, but not enough imagination to imagine a world without the racial categorizations and hierarchy of our world history.

whether you will admit it or see it, You are a victim of racism as well.




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