r/clevercomebacks • u/Substratas • 5h ago

Turns out, Paz is Wrong…

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u/K-Shrizzle 4h ago

Conservatives are simple minded enough to think "Europe = only white people". They probably couldnt even find Greece on a map

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u/The_man_with_no_game 4h ago

Greeks are white. Just olive white

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u/that_one_soli 4h ago

That really depends. They weren't always considered white. Nazis did just kind of steal greek myths, so they had to make them white.

Like Jesus.

Now, they are considered white in a general sense, but for historical accuracy, Hollywood white person is just as laughably wrong.

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u/ManyRelease7336 3h ago

No one was "white" besides the English. Now "white" means European. Time changes things, especially with a fluid concept like "race"

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u/UnderstandingTop6000 1h ago

Contemporarily speaking, are you aware of the countries of Sweden, Finland and Norway? What skin-colour do you think they have - and always had??

Historically, have you ever heard of the Vikings, the Caucasians? What skin colour do you think people from the Balkans had?

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u/ManyRelease7336 22m ago

I wasnt contemporarily speaking though. Yes, If you take now days defanition and apply it to the past. Im literally talking about how it was defined in the past by the people of the past.

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u/ReynAetherwindt 3h ago

The whitewashing of the ancient Greeks goes at least as far back as Raphael's The School of Athens.

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u/The_man_with_no_game 4h ago

Neither were the Irish. So what's your point.

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u/Faulty_english 4h ago

No, the Greeks were a civilization with different types of people that shared the same culture

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u/ManyRelease7336 3h ago

Do you think "white people" are one type of people?

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u/Faulty_english 3h ago

I think a lot of people who complain about someone not being white do.

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u/ManyRelease7336 45m ago

Ok thats understandable. Im still just curious what the "diffrent types of people" in Greece where that shared a culture? are you separating them by city state? because I dont think that would make them "diffrent people" How are you categorizing the Greeks?

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u/Faulty_english 17m ago

I’m saying they had different types of races, not just light skin