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

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[–]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.