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V_V comments on Stranger Than History - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 September 2007 06:57PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 March 2014 02:46:54AM * 2 points [-]

One might also point out that thinking black people are inferior is a meme that arose from the slave trade in Christian semi-democracies.

Read Arabian Nights, blacks are portrayed pretty negatively there as well.

Comment author: V_V 25 March 2014 05:44:59PM * 4 points [-]

Arabs had been enslaving Africans since medieval times.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 26 March 2014 02:21:53AM 2 points [-]

They were also enslaving Europeans.

Comment author: Nornagest 26 March 2014 02:29:37AM 2 points [-]

And as far as I can tell, they didn't have a very high opinion of European intelligence, customs, or capacity for civilization either -- though ibn Fadlan might have been excused, considering who he was dealing with.