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2026-01-27 16:21 UTC

I think I'd like the person who made the claim to tell us what they meant with "plenty". A reference here and there to there having been a black person in Ancient Greece doesn't feel like it's proving the claim, but they might've meant just that when they said "plenty". > they simply didn’t document it That makes it sound hard to prove

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@ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 19:48

Alright, demonstrate that the demographics are as *you* assert they are. I've shown you that they're depicted in their arts and culture, both as they depicted outsiders and as they depicted themselves, as well as that they had unremarkable interactions with Ethiopia and beyond. The link also details the history of using the racial composition of ancient Greece for all manner of racial weirdness that wasn't representative of the Greeks themselves, up to and including Internet race weirdos who get bent out of shape about a black person being depicted in a movie set in the Mediterranean. At this point you've been given plenty of evidence that there sufficient numbers of dark skinned people that it wasn't remarkable. If you disagree that it would somehow have been remarkable, or that this isn't a perfectly workable definition of "plenty", then show some reason why beyond "well everyone knows". Hell, demonstrate that there were plenty of *white* people.

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