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My history teacher back in high-school claimed that racism is actually a pretty recent phenomenon tracing back to like the 1500-1600s, and wasn't really a thing in ancient times, atleast in the same way as now.
It's not modern at all. The Romans considered themselves better than everyone else; the Greeks considered themselves better than everyone else. The Turks did, too, as did the Italians and Irish and the Germans. Nearly every country throughout all of history has been racist. It's this idea of "anti-racism" that's new.
You reinforce this ridiculous notion by incorporating it yourself. By refusing to call yourself Anti-Racist you’re only giving them power to dictate some fantasy definition of what that means.
Same happens with the term Anti-Fascist. Now you morons won’t call yourself anti-fascist because of what some Anarchists did. You openly label yourself, at the very least, neutral to fascism, because of a trend designed by idiots.
All you are doing is abandoning good honest morals and unification because you don’t want to be seen standing next to a very small but vocal (due to being propped up for shock value and divisionism) group.
Hey I'm blaming the leftist for the nomenclature.
I'm just the regular dude sifting through the most apt definitions. Racism and fascism is just a descriptor that you can remove by not being the descriptor. Adding the anti to it doesnt add to the definition.
So I agree that the descriptions are not helpful but I refuse to be apart of the collective you assign to me. I already told you what faction used those words to describe themselves.
if we're getting really pedantic here then that's technically xenophobia but they're rooted in the same thing - same goes for colorism. 'groups of people hating other groups of people who aren't their group' has something that's been happening all throughout history and will continue to happen until the end of mankind. i'm sure if you showed a white man from the 1300s a black person he'd lose his shit.
Not really, because they knew black people existed, and didn't really have a problem with them. For example, Balthazar, one of the Three Magi, has been traditionally described as a black man since at least before the eighth century. Anti-black racism specifically is, indeed, a more modern thing, based on the concept of the "Enlightened Europe" that needs to civilize all other cultures. While that was a sort of concept in Medieval times, it was more of "spreading Christianity" type thing, rather than anything else.
Racism is 100% a concept that has existed since we were living in caves. It was simple enough survival wise. Natural dislike towards people who looked different. That kept your tribe wary of other tribes that may have ill intentions.
It's become a burden now because we all more or less speak the same language. We dont live in tribes anymore and the judge of personal charicter is a more accurate representation of a person than judging solely from skin color.