r/facepalm • u/Gogito-35 • 2d ago
Least racist Twitter conversation. 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​
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u/Terrible_Figure_6740 2d ago
Who one this particularly high brow debate? Asians, for not participating! Go Asians!
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u/lambdavi 2d ago
A few quiet comment.
Africa may have had wondrous empires, but they're so ancient we can't find much of their existence. Incredibly enough, we have more artefacts from 3000BC in Egypt or Mesopotamia than artefacts from 1000AD from SubSaharan Africa. So, where are the remnants of those ancient empires?
There's such a huge difference in ancient African civilizations between the Mediterranean coast, and SubSaharan Africa...both ethnic and cultural, that you could easily analyse them as two different continents. Mediterranean Africans traded with the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Romans; they had homes built in stone and fortified cities. Meanwhile, in SubSaharan Africa, people live in straw huts to this day.
Slave trade: the slave trade was ripe in the Indian Ocean when the Greeks still cowered at the Pillars of Hercules; it was run by Arab merchants and the slaves were provided by local warlords. In Europe, ironically, slaves were locals, POWs, thieves sentenced to the galleys, not Africans bought at the market; that phenomenon only started in the 17th century.
So, overall, as a European, I don't feel guilty about anything and have nothing to blame myself for.
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u/zizobg 2d ago
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310384
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/119/
https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-03-00-scarred-land-tells-of-hard-fought-battles/
Ruins, artefacts, and more exist, and people find and document them.
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/gaborone
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa
There are a multitude of urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore:
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/combating-rural-poverty-china/
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/08/ecuador-implements-strategy-to-eradicate-extreme-poverty/
Poverty exists all across the world. Centuries of racism has made it such that Africa is just the most commonly known.
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https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/europe#
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/history-transatlantic-slave-trade
The African Transatlantic slave trade was controlled by European nations and was used both in very small amounts in their own motherlands, as well as extensively in plantations and colonies abroad. In addition:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2967206
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/slavery/ethics/justifications.shtml
The ideas that were brought about in order to justify African slavery, brought about due to the cruel treatment of African (and earlier, Native American) slaves that was uncommon in recent history, influenced the racism that is still seen today across the world, be it through explicit actions or subtle ones.
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