:
|
That's bollocks, BM. Racism is an inherently human problem that tightly coils around our entire history. The Babylonian Talmud talks about the sons of Ham who were 'cursed by being black'. Even fucking Aristotle said that everyone who wasn't a Greek was worthy of nothing more than being a slave.
|
I said
in our culture. Others have done their own thing, and I am by no means claiming that there was a perfect racially going culture before then. But racim as we today know it and all the behaviours and stereotypes and words and glass ceilings and everything we know racism in our culture to be today started then. It wasn't that much earlier than that that foreign cultures and empires in Africa, the Middle East and Asia (and the Americas, prior to contact) were much more advanced than Europe was at the time.