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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Hell, they literally had to invent "whiteness and blackness" as racial constructs to justify continuing to enslave the African slaves that converted to Christianity.

That move is a lot older than the colonisation of Americas. There's a reason why westerners don't consider Slavs white, and it's connected to the etymology of the word "slave".