Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama)
Blaze@feddit.org 5 days agoModern racism is very much rooted in European pseudo-scientific bullshit.
Feel free to provide sources.
And those kings and queens very much hold power, unofficially, off the books.
When that happens, the king abdicates. Happened in Spain not too long ago en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Abdication_of_Juan_Carlos_I
It’s called corruption when it happens elsewhere but as we know Europeans are too pure and righteous to engage in corruption (at home), they only do it abroad when lobbying for contracts illegally.
Oh, don’t worry, we have plenty of corruption at home too: …wikipedia.org/…/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_…
The one thing the European Union still hasn’t do is elect a leader similar to Trump. As stated above, the European Parliament isn’t dominated by the far-right, and all but 2 countries are currently governed by full far-right coalitions.
01011@monero.town 5 days ago
Phrenology and “Scientific Racism” in the 19th Century …vassar.edu/…/phrenology-and-scientific-racism-in…
The familiar paradigm of five human races was born in the year 1795—at the transitional moment between the rationality of the Enlightenment and the emotional fervour of Romanticism—when a German doctor, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, set out the distinct characteristics of those groups he called Caucasians Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, and Malays. counterpunch.org/…/the-science-of-race-and-the-ra…
The Germans once, again. Must be something in the Rhine…
Blaze@feddit.org 5 days ago
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works , example of derogatory comments towards another country
01011@monero.town 5 days ago
How about you read the entire post instead of picking out one line that you do not like.
Blaze@feddit.org 5 days ago
Before going further, may I ask you where you are from? Would help to see which country’s historical racism can be used to evidence that racism was everywhere during human history.