It's such a stupid idea that racism didn't exist until it was systemized by Enlightenment thinkers. Clearly racism was formalized as the need for contact with other races increased as a consequence of colonialism. It takes extreme levels of dishonesty to suggest that
Tradcaths are dishonest about this for understandable reasons but doesn't Portugal's pioneering of the Atlantic slave trade in the late 1400s sort of disprove thishttps://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1003089448538705920 …
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there was something specific to Enlightenment philosophy that invented racism, but I suppose if you're in the business of retconning Catholicism as anti-racism, it's understandable
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I'm not an economic determinist but the idea that a largely homogeneous society without an economic need for importing vast amounts of slave labor or indeed any exposure to different races would have any sort of need for constructing a systemized theory of race is...dumb.
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