re: Is being racist always wrong?

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Every single conquering civilization believed they were superior to others for a variety of reasons.

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i mean physically conquering your foes is going to give you a sense of superiority. hell there is a laundry list of "insults" that we can discuss that man has created in this scenario. like eating conquered foes, raping the women/killing children (to end their pure genetic lines), cutting off various holy body parts (to prevent the proper death/ascendance into whatever heaven they believe in), etc

these are all strictly, "i am better than you b/c i am more powerful than you and you don't deserve the respect of common human decencies, because you were so weak".

again, would it have been better to commit good ole genocide instead? racism is terrible, but it's better than how we dealt with conquered foes in previous eras of human history. it's going to end badly for the conquered regardless