What is your opinion/rebuttal of this leftist video about how race and "racism" was invented?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoyRgJbNT0M&ab_channel=Fredda

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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This has been done to death. Race is real. Period.

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Just because the ancients didn’t have a solid conception of race as we know it now, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Yes race was ‘invented’ in the early modern period because that was the first time Europeans were exposed to what were clearly very different peoples, such as Blacks, American Indians, East Asians etc.

By the early 20th century any educated man could tell you that race is real, by then they had already proven it (and that was before genetic science became a thing).

[–]Nasser[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Didn't the Romans interact with Africans though? What about the Mongols and Arabs?

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They clearly saw that Arabs & Mongols were different than them. They just lacked generic testing & Darwinist theories to prove it .

As for Africans, the Romans had limited contact with them through Berber caravans that crossed the Sahara, along with the Nile trade routes in Egypt to Nubia. However they were almost always slaves.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The video already failed at 2:12

Humans have 99.9% the same DNA

And so do Men & Women. The .1% is enough to differentiate them.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Humans have 99.9% the same DNA

So do apes and humans. The .1% makes a big difference.

[–]8thmonitor 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I watched it. It was interesting.

But it is incorrect. Alt Hype and AmRen have many videos explaining this. Certain races are more likely to have specific genes and traits than other races.

[–]TrabWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Within the first 5 minutes he pretty much disproves the point he was trying to make