Who started racism

Evil Overlord

it was john white guy in the year 500

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@Ren year 500

luklukluk

dam that's along time ago

KiwiFarmsArkavel

lowk thought ts was from 1782

NightmareWolfie

@Jujub_811 I don't think we can answer that question, racism cannot be attributed to any person due to the fact it is a widespread ideology that has existed for thousands of years. However as for like the more modern idea of racism with supremacy and rights and all that, I think that was probably in Europe but I'm not exactly sure. If you're curious as to the origins of racism, look 'er up and do a deep dive.

Biblecampvictim

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.[1][2][3] It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different ethnic background.[2] Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities.[2][3] There have been attempts to legitimize racist beliefs through scientific means, such as scientific racism, which have been overwhelmingly shown to be unfounded. In terms of political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices or laws, racist ideology may include associated social aspects such as nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, and supremacism.

While the concepts of race and ethnicity are considered to be separate in contemporary social science, the two terms have a long history of equivalence in popular usage and older social science literature. "Ethnicity" is often used in a sense close to one traditionally attributed to "race", the division of human groups based on qualities assumed to be essential or innate to the group (e.g., shared ancestry or shared behavior). Racism and racial discrimination are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of whether these differences are described as racial. According to the United Nations's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, there is no distinction between the discrimination resulting from either basis of race or ethnicity, but that the terms do have different meanings that may not always coincide. It further concludes that superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust, and dangerous. The convention also declared that there is no justification for racial discrimination, anywhere, in theory or in practice.[4]

Racism is frequently described as a relatively modern concept, evolving during the European age of imperialism, transformed by capitalism,[5] and the Atlantic slave trade,[1][6] of which it was a major driving force.[7] It was also a major force behind racial segregation in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and of apartheid in South Africa; 19th and 20th-century racism in Western culture is particularly well documented and constitutes a reference point in studies and discourses about racism.[8] Racism has played a role in genocides such as the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia, as well as colonial projects including the European colonization of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the population transfer in the Soviet Union including deportations of indigenous minorities.[9] Indigenous peoples have been—and are—often subject to racist attitudes.

Biblecampvictim

W wikipedia

luklukluk

nice work at copying and pasting the information

GooXy

John R. Racism

ilovecats2018

I think it was John Pork ngl

Yanderemenhera

i think the ''us vs them'' mentality is part of every human. regardless of time period. you can find evidence for it basically as far back as you go in history. it wasnt just one guy, it was evolutionary beneficial at the time to fear others outside our group and unfortunately, it sticks around in modern day like our horrificly shaped spine and our craving for sugar. hell, in US history you could argue our craving for sugar played in the role of the dehumanization, torcher, and forced labor of our own speices.

KiwiFarmsArkavel

The White Chocolate Hershey bar

ilovecats2018

@KiwiFarmsArkavel

KiwiFarmsArkavel

said in Who started racism:

The White Chocolate Hershey bar

he wanted my descendants to pick the cotton candy and it was actually quite the fright when I realized the White Hershey Bar was holding a licorice stick

Johnny.SS

Discrimination towards Black people started with the Atlantic slave trade but specifically when the church started spreading propaganda to justify enslaving fellow Christian’s (this is @_Izzy_ on Johnnys phone btw)
Racism in general just kinda happened over time and discrimination towards each of individual ethnicity has it’s own individual history.

Johnny.SS

said in Who started racism:

Discrimination towards Black people started with the Atlantic slave trade but specifically when the church started spreading propaganda to justify enslaving fellow Christian’s (this is @_Izzy_ on Johnnys phone btw)
Racism in general just kinda happened over time and discrimination towards each of individual ethnicity has its own individual history.

Slavery itself actually wasn't the start of racism as it’s been a thing in all cultures way before the concept of racism as we think of it today, and most discrimination/racism towards a group is to justify using them or push a certain political opinion or to create a scapegoat. (Still @_Izzy_ )

Johnny.SS

@KiwiFarmsArkavel can we not make light of this topic pls (still @_Izzy_)

KiwiFarmsArkavel

@Johnny.SS said in Who started racism:

@KiwiFarmsArkavel can we not make light of this topic pls (still @_Izzy_)

Racism explained with chocolate bars

_Izzy_

@Yanderemenhera I think you have a point but racism, the discrimination against a race, is taught, not natural, because race is a social concept so while grouping up is human nature, racism itself is not

Yanderemenhera

@_Izzy_ fair