re: #163 KGxvi

Basically, racism means that culture is zero-sum. Admitting that other people had “civilizations” and created important ideas and monuments…which, think about it, Nordic/Celtic Europe was the John-come-extra-lately, comparitively—is to hint at parity or—gasp!- -that maybe race wasn’t a driver of civilization.

This is especially important in and around Christianity, where racism intersects with the basic issue of supersession…that Christianity jacked the God Of The Israelites. So there are a lot of racist/anti-Semitic systems that posit that the Jews either are fake (and “real Jews” are white) or have a “fallen” status (by killing Jesus). It isn’t new…it starts percolating when the Church solidified in Rome.

re: #203 CuriousLurker

The one I always heard in Pakistan was that people were pale…and sometimes blue-eyed…because of Alexander the Great’s troops.