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2025-04-23 11:32:24 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: AC783C8F2DCD81364E9C002E9DBFF3E555A0AB6FBB8B24E080ADABABD24278B5
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Ancient Greece and Rome were diverse, and “whiteness” had no meaning then. Race is a modern concept. Yet the far-right pushes a myth of “Western civilization” as white, tracing a false lineage from Greece and Rome through medieval Europe to today. https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-greece-rome-donna-zuckerberg https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/kathryn-wilson-constructing-race-in-ancient-world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_people https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2021/the-classical-roots-of-white-supremacy
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