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re: Is being racist always wrong?
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:14 am to miamiman55
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:14 am to miamiman55
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to this question, racial taxonomy and natural groups were incorporated in light of European colonization and played a major motivating factor.
and this is nothing special with regards to colonialism or europeans. this has occurred in basically any expansion of any group in the history of mankind. as a group, we try to expand our borders (and all the power and resources that come with it). we create an enemy. we create a narrative that we are superior and they are inferior and evil. we use this to justify our group killing them. the other group acts in kind, and in an attempt to rally its group, identifies my group as inferior and evil. the superior side wins and writes the histories.
wash. rinse. repeat.
sometimes race is used. more often, another variable is used.
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Racial taxonomy did not exist in any legitimized sense of discriminating "value" prior to the enlightenment.
this is 100% wrong
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Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:20 am to SlowFlowPro
"Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, in the 17th century, people began to use the term to relate to observable physical traits. Such use promoted hierarchies favorable to differing ethnic groups. Starting from the 19th century, the term was often used, in a taxonomic sense, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype.[1][2][3]"
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