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The concept of race has its roots in Christian Nationalist views of "inferior" people
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Speaking of outdated theories "An even smaller group, estimated at no more than 20 Chukchis, crossed what is now the Bering Sea approximately 13,000 years ago during the last glacial period, and migrated into North America. They are the ancestors of Native Americans, and 800 years later, they reached as far as South America."
The discovery of fossilized human footprints in New Mexico that are over 21,000 -23,000 years old was reported in 2021. Just this week a report from Argentina of a 21,000 year old fossilized Armadillo showing evidence of butchering by stone knives was released.
I'm not as up to date on racist theories but the rest of the article aligns with what I have read from multiple sources. Race is a relatively modern concept created to justify conquest and enslavement.
Any arbitrary criterion to sort people is meant for that.
People have always called other people that's different than them names. It started long before "beginning in the 15th Century of the Common Era (CE) and reaching its apex in the early 20th Century CE."
This article is trash.
What happened to the other human species that were around in ancient times? They didn't die out because of a religion that started a milinia after they were alive.
People have always called other people that's different than them names
Yes, but the specific social construct of race was an invention of white Christian colonialists trying to justify their bigoted behavior and prejudices towards people with more melanin.
Well, referring to groups as gods people and unwashed heathens kinda does have a dehumanizing effect. Whouda thunk?
It's not accurate to say it's rooted in the inferiority of other people but in their own self professed supremacy. Christians think they're better than everyone.
That's just semantics. If they believe they are supreme compared to another, they still believe the other is inferior. They're just trying to justify it to themselves in a way that doesn't make them feel bad about the way they feel. Especially since christians are supposed to go out and preach the word to convert people, thereby making them part of the 'chosen group' of betters.
Lol. Us vs them mentality has stretched back since the beginning of the homo genus... probably before that. Racism is just an extension of that but with larger communities. It's more accurate to say "The Christian Nationalist Views of Inferior People have Roots Stemming from the Concept of Race". Which is kinda obvious and doesn't make much of a headline.