@wdlindsy this kind of thinking led to "scientific" eugenics and genocide in the 20th...
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:24:32 JST gnutelephony
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:24:33 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"The riches amassed became the seed money for the industrial revolutions that catapulted Europe and, eventually, North America into economic ascendancy. Simultaneously, the poisonous seed of ideological racism was cultivated to justify this exploitation.
The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of 'scientific racism,' an attempt to provide justifications for racial hierarchies, with Europeans at the apex and Africans at the nadir."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:24:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"The four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade shaped the spectre of racism and are woven into the fabric of global development. Threaded through the complexity of socioeconomic disparities is the narrative of the global north’s prosperity – and the global south’s poverty."
~ Kenneth Mohammed
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