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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 idea of "Me and people like me" > "People not like me" isn't modern, the exact mechanisms of modern racism might not have been realized yet but it certainly existed
Like what's the earliest can we document a white person being racist against black people?
Probably way before good documentation even exists lol.
It's also useful to note the idea of "White people" and "Black people" are kinda modern as well. These groups weren't the same in the past.
I think the problem is ancient society didn't have a meta understating of identity like we do so documenting their true beliefs on the matter is harder. That doesn't mean racism didn't exist, we need to press the fact that white people throughout all of human history have been racist.