Utter madness: "'You need to transform your eye into an objective tool in order to overcome this powerful imprint'—a tendency to equate whiteness with beauty, taste, and classical ideals, and to see color as alien, sensual, and garish."https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture …
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The reason the statues are relevant for Identity Europa is that Greece and Rome were the cradle of Western Civilization. The fact the statues are white because their paint wore off makes them conveniently pure white, but this is not why IE is interested in the statues.pic.twitter.com/40SjQ5CegJ
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This author simultaneously discards complaints about re-writing Achilles as a sub-saharan african while also admitting the original story itself contemplated him as white.pic.twitter.com/s9b16QbE9K
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Further, the author places Romans above us today in a moral hierarchy because they "did not practice systematic racism," and were "equal opportunity slavers"
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In this epically misleading conclusion the author pretends that the fact Greeks thought tanned skin was a good thing (a feeling that persists to this day in many majority-white nations), to mean that Greeks loved SSA's. In actual fact, 99.999% of Greeks had never met an SSA..pic.twitter.com/UXJy7XQSCz
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...thus , the Greeks were certainly not thinking about contemporary USA white/black racial politics when they expressed positive feelings about @Bronzeagepervert's olive-skinned warrior-men tanning in the sun.
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Is this even true? I've known for as long as I can remember that the statues were painted - this information was readily available in museums in the early 90's if not sooner. I remember when I first found out at the museum.pic.twitter.com/cm3gPgcSP4
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Look at how insecure the author is about how beautiful the white statues are though - it's as if she can't stand that something that is the colour white could be so beautiful..
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This is exactly what we do today - albino black people are still "black" - Vijay Singh isn't black. It's just that the word that means "of Sub Saharan ancestry" is also the word for a colorpic.twitter.com/nTjozAtVvQ
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That was my question, too. I don't think any remotely educated person would imply that the Greeks were all pale white like marble.
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