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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, yeah. Systemic racism was invented by British colonizers as an excuse for abusing and exploiting people with darker skin and to this day, it’s very effective in different variants all over the world 😮‍💨

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  • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Systemic racism has existed as long as concepts of race exist.

    Scientific racism was created in France to justify the enslavement of African Christians as normally it is illegal in canon law to enslave another Christian. The UK and other Northern European nations embraced these concepts and built upon them.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    British are a nation of inventors so it makes sense

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The invention of Racism is often credited to Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Racism - though it’s generally now considered that German inventor Johann Philipp Reisism had a practical example of Racism fifteen years earlier.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        One time A.G. Racism was sitting under a chippy when a black man dropped on his head. That gave him an idea that’s now credited with inspiring racism.

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Indeed, it seems to be the secret to a long life.

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