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What evidence is there of racism before colonialism?
Removed by modFrom what I understand the modern concept of race arose during the age of colonialism, but before that time, was there any documented accounts of racism against black people by white people?
The problem with this question is that there were no "white" and "black" people before the modern invention of race. There are traditions of xenophobia and prejudice dating back to at least antiquity that we might recognize to varying degrees as precursors, but the idea that the peoples of Europe all share an innate quality of whiteness and are superior to the people of Africa, who all share an innate quality of blackness, did not exist. These ideas only become possible and useful with the beginnings of Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, as an ideology that underpins and justifies the project of subjugation.
The immediate forerunner of the modern invention of race made the division on religious lines, instead (Christendom vs the non-christian other). Racism had to be invented in order to justify keeping fellow Christians (converts in colonized societies) in slavery.
Didn't religion as a justification for racism start during colonialism? This thread is to question if racism has always existed throughout human history and if not the farthest back we can pin it existing.
"Racism" is just another face of the same subjugation which has been a fact of human empires since the first Lugal of Sumeria. There is labor that must occur in service of the Leviathan, so some segment will be classified the Lugal, some the Ensi, and the rest the zeks. Read this and understand the face of history.