/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Middle ages at least

Racism was invented in 2016 when trump became president

>>2379052
nah, trotsky was the first

There are two wolves inside you
>history is so cool
>WHAT THE FUCK

>>2379087
>>history is so cool
sybau corny ass uygha nobody not retarded thinks like that

>>2379109
It's for the effect of contrast humorless retard, "cool" here is synonymous with "fascinating, interesting, curious"

Racisms is as old as humanity itself, probably even older going back to the homo erected days

>>2379035
I feel like eugenics was prominent during slave society democracies but died down during feudal society monarchies. And then eugenics went up again with capitalism and bourgeois democracies.

So I would really place the underlying material motivations as similar. Eugenics is a means to justify inherited privilege in a way which doesn't allow for tyrants/kings. Slave societies were afraid of being obsoleted by feudal societies so they needed eugenics instead of divine right. Capitalists overturned feudal societies for wage slavery so they went back to eugenics.

There are still some substantial differences today of course. But yeah race justifies conquering and pillaging while not allowing kings. Why are capitalists and slavers more democratic than feudal landowners? Not really sure. Absolute monarchy had always really been a myth. Historically, kings were always very distant figures. It seems to me that feudal society just required less trade. Slave society traded directly in bodies and capitalism trades in goods/services. But feudal society was much more decentralized. So the state was necessarily more distant and authoritarian.

as old as humanity probably

>>2379035
>I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas.
What a strange thing to believe

racism in the narrow sense only exists since modern biology invented the concept of a race
xenophobia is as old as humanity

>>2379347
Not if you are huffing maoism 3rd worldism.

>>2379133
it's kind of funny that racists especially white surpemacists pride themselves on being pure but what we find is that the lighter skinned people of europe are actually more mixed homosapien/neanderthal than people south of the sahara desert. maybe it's actually good to not be mixed and not inbred. maybe we shouldn't marry our cousins to stay "PVREBLVT"

read fascism and social revolution

"racism" as far as it means discriminating against and marking as inferior a group with differentiated characteristics is probably old as time, and of course any basic human understanding of heritability would mean this was often associated with some basic genetic component. when people talk about "racism" coming about during euro colonial expansion in the 15th & 16th century, its clearly in reference to a concept of whiteness and white supremacy, which still holds and is even bolstered by these examples of recognizable roman "racism" against gauls etc

>>2379035
Racism as we understand it today, as in racialisation not xenophobia or prejudice, was invented around the 16th/17th century. So it's a couple hundred years old