Unfriending due to Political Differences

[WolfpackN64]

StarDoor said:

WolfpackN64 said:

This is no reality. It's been scientifically stated there is only ONE human race. What you are stating is largely cultural and local difference, but that does not constitute a race.

And it does not justify the subjegation of other people. If anything, other people were named a race in the past to legitimize their colonization by the western powers.

It's not a cultural difference, it's a biological difference. Although culture tends to be a function of the population's biology anyways.

OK, so don't call them races. That doesn't refute the fact that there are genetically distinct population groups within humanity.

Also, Western powers are quite late to the party when it comes to racism/subjugation/colonization. The Persians hated the Greeks, the Egyptians hated the Jews, the Japanese hated the Chinese... interracial/interethnic conflict pervades human history. Whites don't have a monopoly on that sort of thing. If anything, whites were the ones who developed an ideology (liberalism) that denies the very existence of different groups of humanity, which makes perfect sense when you consider that Europeans (especially northern and western ones) are among the least ethnocentric population groups. Unfortunately, this tendency makes it easy for more ethnocentric peoples to take advantage of them.

Conquering and subjegation aren't anything new, but subjegation on the scale of modern day imperialism was only possible under capitalism, the rise of liberalism has replaced direct imperialism with economic imperialism in which elites dominate other classes and peoples based on their economic strength.