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• @frisbird@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 13:01

  I should have specified what was wrong with the comment: > It's the clash of cultures than normally causes the problems we see in the world that we mislabel as "race". This is not accurate race is not a mislabeling of the problems caused by a clash of cultures. Race is a deliberately designed system of categorization used for the purposes of dehumanizing humans to solve the cognitive dissonance humans feel when they commit atrocities against other humans. de Zurara's writing was at the request of Prime Henry, who was kidnapping people from Africa, torturing them, and selling them into chattel slavery. De Zurara invented categories for people that attempted to make this behavior rational and justified. It's not an ambient phenomenon like "culture clash". It's a specific project of European slavery and colonization.

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