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Igel

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54. The racial categories you think are somehow permanent--

Thu Jul 4, 2019, 05:45 PM

Jul 2019

even if you might at some other time argue that they're social fictions--didn't hold back then.

Hell, to a large extent only inveterate racists held to the most common racial distinctions I'm exposed to when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s. Some people may have hated certain ethnicities, but they didn't put them in a different racial category.

As for the "origins of Xianity," first you have to define Xianity. If you're talking about the kind that became Catholicism, that was European.

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