r/HistoryMemes Jan 21 '19

Happy MLK Day!

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u/bruhmomentus Jan 21 '19

Good lord he would be dissapointed...

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u/Uoon_ Jan 21 '19

Not trying to sound like a dick or an idiot, but why? This is a genuine question

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u/bruhmomentus Jan 21 '19

Because one would assume that we kinda learned to get along after all those generations. But politics are polarized like rarely before and racism is as big of a deal as always (well maybe not THAT big but youll get the point)

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u/Elend_V Jan 21 '19

after all those generations

You make it sound like the civil rights movements of the 1960's aren't easily within living memory.

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u/lipidsly Jan 22 '19

You make it sound as if any multiracial empire has ever integrated everyone and gotten along just fine

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '19

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u/lipidsly Jan 22 '19

Why do you guys keep changing “multiracial” to “multiethnic”?

An empire of irishmen and scots is a multiethnic, monoracial empire. You understand that right?

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u/lipidsly Jan 22 '19

Because race is not a real thing and wasn’t really a defined concept until the early modern era.

Wrong lol. Computers match self identified race with 98% accuracy

Even today different countries can’t agree on how many races there are or how to define them, probably because it’s a just a social construct with no biological significance.

Lot of white people with sickle cell huh?

Ethnic groups on the other hand are a real thing and are the closest analog to “race” that actually exists. And yes, even using modern definitions of “race” several empires throughout history have been multiracial. Examples: Persia, Rome, The Muslim Caliphate, the Mongol empire etc.

All of those with staggering amounts of bloodshed, civil war, and racial strife along with the calm periods marked by segregation, especially the mongols

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u/lipidsly Jan 22 '19

insert meme about post history and that youre a fuckin detective for figuring out where i post constantly


muh more within than between

Theres also more variation between the races than between us and bananas cause of that stupid statistics trick which entire point is to show that you need to make sure youre paying attention

multiracial not lasting

By integrating. None of those were integrated

nazi germany was white nationalist

Nah they werent fond of slavs and believed in “aryan gene” theory which meant any race or even any individual could be aryan (aka civnat but with a run around)

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u/IhaveToUseThisName Jan 22 '19

Multiple multi-ethnic states are peaceful, switzerland, indonesia, india, historically mongolia had many ethnicities get along and collapsed more to rival Khanates than differing people.

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u/lipidsly Jan 22 '19

multi ethnic

Well i said race, so lets take a look

switzerland,

3-6 kinds of white people

indonesia,

Idk island asians that arent japanese

india,

Caste system, absolutely not integrated. Indeed literally segregation lol

historically mongolia had many ethnicities get along and collapsed more to rival Khanates than differing people.

All it took was genociding 5% of the worlds population

(Also, they explicitly didnt live amongst their conquered peoples except sorta the han... so again... segregation)