FYI, the concept of “racism”, which you should well know did not exist 150 years ago, and had to be invented, and it’s not something like a lightbulb that had to be invented, that concept is said to have been invented by none other than Leon Trotsky. It’s caught on, achieved its propagandistic purposes to the point where you and the Communists can sing Kumbaya together about it, even though it is something doesn’t exist, just like, say, global warming. Look up ethnocentrism, and tell us in what human culture, at what point in history, it did not appear.
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Leon Trotsky had jack-crap to do with the invention of racism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobineau
Thing is, at the time, racism was a thought positive. It's only after somepeople realized there was nothing whatsoever to support this allegation of inequality that it became negatively connoted.
Racism did exist 150 years ago, even though it didn't have a name. The whole idea of slavery is pure racism, in that the idea that the darker-skinned races weren't considered good enough to be human and therefore deserved to be owned by lighter-skinned people. Just because it wasn't called "racism" doesn't mean that racism didn't exist.
Ethnocentrism emerged as a concept somewhat later than racism. While Gobineau coined racism, ethnocentrism was coined by WG McGee in 1900. So, if "racism" had to be invented, it stands to reason that "ethnocentrism" did too.
Okay, genius, how do you explain stuff like Jim Crow & slavery.
This is so doorknob stupid!
Closing your mind to reality is never healthy. This is the shit that happens to you. It reminds me of the old wives' tales about masturbating- you'll go blind! You'll grow hair on your palms! You'll become impotent and deathly ill!
This quote, and FSTDT in general, stands as a similar cautionary tale: don't believe your own bullshit!
Cholera blankets? The Battle of Fort Pillow? Wounded Knee? The Philippine- American War?
And, yes, you are revolting.
Racism has existed ever since one critter decided his own group was more valuable than the group of another critter.
This mindset has existed for as long as humans have been able to think... and maybe longer.
I think you guys misunderstand this post. Revolting cat claims that people have always been biased in favour of their own kind, but the word "Racism" and the idea that it was wrong was invented as commie propaganda some time in the last 150 years. Of course coming to the conclusion that something we've always done is actually wrong is what progress is all about.
@Hasher
What Revolting Cat! is saying is that people prefer their own nation . It is known that people prefer their own kind, however arbitrarily their own kind might be delineated - there was a series of well-known experiments that showed preference among subjects who had been handed the same color piece of paper. Ethnocentrism, on the other hand, was not particularly widespread until the eighteenth century; what mattered much more was sticking to people of your own religion. Jews are a good example here - traditional antisemitism was on the basis of discrimination against them for rejecting Christ; it was only in the nineteenth century that hatred of Jews as a people became widespread.
Marxism opposes the false concsciousness, things like sexism and racism. It is to divide the proletariat by denying them class concsciousness. "you are more like your white boss, not your black co worker. Hate him instead," is the essential logic of this mention. So he has a basis for saying "communists invented racism" despite bigotry as old as man himself, comes from tribal divisions, wealth divisions, and gender roles. The term may be new, but the greeks are well documented in using it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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