re: I've come to the conclusion that Millenials are giant pussies.

I think over 100 years ago, in the academic world -historians, social scientists, etc- people were quite centered on race. People knew what their clan was, they were proud of it, and they described the common attributes of others - positive, negative, and neutral. And really, everyone was like this, in most every country, it's a fairly natural conception if we're being honest about humans.


It's an oversimplification, but it always struck me when reading old history how nonchalantly races were described, it never seemed to occur to anyone that there was anything wrong with it. Lincoln and Douglas strongly disagreed on slavery, but neither had any qualms about describing things in racist terms. Much of Teddy Roosevelt's popularity came from harping on the idea that the great European races were coming together to form a super White American race. This was the real jingoism.

So, was everyone just a shithead back then? It seems across the board, the entire concept of racism didn't even exist. Obviously there would be shitheads as today, but the way you treated a person was a matter of manners and convention.

I think racism is mostly a manufactured concept, right down to the word itself. It was first called 'racial hatred' - but that was too strong. I've read letters between WW1 generals who are confounded at this new term and how it's being used to control people. In Russia, Trotsky coined the term 'racistov' and made 'racism' and 'antisemitism' punishable by death. We see hate speech laws now, any scientist who acknowledges race exists becomes persona non grata, and TIME magazine tells white people their baby is born racist.

I'm not a racist, I think everyone should have equal treatment from the law, and you should personally treat everyone the same. I'm not saying we should go back to that mindset. I'm saying it becomes an awesome excuse to bury, ban, and ignore (especially in today's Marxist schools) like 90% of the history books from that time because that's just the way people were - they pretty much all fail our modern 'racist' test. And if someone dismisses it out of hand, you might be missing out on valuable information. And the concept is put there to make us not notice things - and it's the racial aspect to this day where you can find some of the most obvious widespread pervasive lies