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Anonymous

05/02/26(Sat)09:59:37 No.18457247

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Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)09:59:37 No.18457247 Archived

Why did Venetians mock the Byzantines for having swarthy complexion? Wasn't that racist?

Anonymous
05/02/26(Sat)10:09:11 No.18457258

Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)10:09:11 No.18457258

>>18457247
>barbarians LARPing as Roman mocking true Romans
Delicious irony

Anonymous
05/02/26(Sat)10:43:08 No.18457299

Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)10:43:08 No.18457299

>>18457247
I presume calling eachother barbarian or non white, was an insult as it is now, but at they time even against emperor and not in message boards

Anonymous
05/02/26(Sat)15:36:44 No.18457747

Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)15:36:44 No.18457747

>>18457247
>true romans mocking south slavs LARPing as romans
Delicious irony

Anonymous
05/02/26(Sat)18:37:25 No.18458019

Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)18:37:25 No.18458019

>>18457247
Damn blackface really been a source of entertainment n shiet for whitey for centuries?

Anonymous
05/02/26(Sat)19:52:35 No.18458165

Anonymous 05/02/26(Sat)19:52:35 No.18458165

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hear me out, though

Anonymous
05/03/26(Sun)03:10:05 No.18458684

Anonymous 05/03/26(Sun)03:10:05 No.18458684

>>18458165
Weren't Romans brown?

Anonymous
05/03/26(Sun)03:35:33 No.18458705

Anonymous 05/03/26(Sun)03:35:33 No.18458705

>>18457258
gayreeks are not Roman in any way, but if you consider Jamaicans to be 100% Anglo Saxon then i would concede that gayreeks are Roman in the same way a colonized nog is Anglo