I did mention other kinds of bigotry there. If you dislike someone because their food is funny and they have a dumb accent that counts, and is probably as old as humanity.
When ancient writers thought about the physical and supposed mental differences between people groups, they tended to gravitate towards the supposed effect of climate, rather than “they’re a heritably different (sub)species”, which is I think the central idea of raceism.
Yes yes it’s not racism unless it’s from the Kent region of England, etc. It’s just broadly applying stereotypes to large groups of “them” with terms modern scholars almost always translate as “race” because it’s the closest modern concept.
Further, this belief system definitely didn’t contribute to the collapse of the Empire as the rulers divided historical classes of citizens into sub-classes with less rights and privileges. Definitely nothing familiar about that that you could joke about the invention of racism with.
I did mention other kinds of bigotry there. If you dislike someone because their food is funny and they have a dumb accent that counts, and is probably as old as humanity.
When ancient writers thought about the physical and supposed mental differences between people groups, they tended to gravitate towards the supposed effect of climate, rather than “they’re a heritably different (sub)species”, which is I think the central idea of raceism.
Yes yes it’s not racism unless it’s from the Kent region of England, etc. It’s just broadly applying stereotypes to large groups of “them” with terms modern scholars almost always translate as “race” because it’s the closest modern concept.
Further, this belief system definitely didn’t contribute to the collapse of the Empire as the rulers divided historical classes of citizens into sub-classes with less rights and privileges. Definitely nothing familiar about that that you could joke about the invention of racism with.