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 …
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
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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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