How true is the statement "Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people according to physical distinctions, but according to religion, status, class, even language"?
>>517732977>statement "Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people according to physical distinctionsYes they did LMAO. Greeks were turbo racist and eugenicist too. They simply weren't as knowledgeable scientifically about race as White people were in the 1800s
>>517732977You already used this image earlier in another slide thread.
It's not true. People discern between races subconsciously. It's a form of tribalism.
>>517732977Do you think that people in the past were retarded and just didn't notice that the guy from over the sea is a completely different colour to them?
>>517732977Greeks literally called non Greeks subhuman
>>517732977Anybody espousing the racial beliefs of the classical Hellenes would be called a natzi white supreemist today.
>>517732977Caesar wrote at length about how much he hated Britons and thought they were animals. The ancients had very solid definitions of race and treated people thusly, and we have the evidence to prove they did so, but progressives repeatedly saying they didn't is just an attempt to install a false narrative via memes in the minds of normies. It's basic Orwellian tactics, repeat a lie often enough and widely enough and people will begin to believe it's the truth.
>>517732977Even if you assume it is true, what's the implication? That ancient civilizations were more enlightened than modern ones? All thoughts about modern race relations should be ignored because the ancient Greeks would be really really mad?One of my earliest memories is screaming at a black person because they had skin that was different from mine. Racism is absolutely biological and society tries to get you to unlearn it.
>>517732977Not true at all. If you read about medieval Slavic history, you find that Russians have had beef with Turkic/Mongolic Asians for as long as they knew about their existence, and every Slavic empire has tried to assimilate their co-ethnics to at least some extent. Greeks just didn't have enough contact with different races to be racist before the Ottoman Empire.I'm not even a racist, I just think it's stupid that some people think that ancient societies were colorblind pre-racial utopias.
>>517733160*breeds with slave races anyway*
>>517732977Probably but then again the Greek were gay
>>517733051This. They treated more distinctions as more important.
WMAF is the future.
>>517732977It's bullshit.
