Re: military superiority; moral inferiority

        I don't know about thousands of years, or even whether the term
"racism" (as understood today) applies, but there was the Roman Empire,
which did not always treat the barbarians of the North with kid gloves;
and the Golden Horde, which sacked and burned Kiev, Moscow, Lublin,
Krakow, and Breslau, and then ruled over those fair-skinned Russians for
more than 200 years.

        Not comparable to the sins of the North, you will say, and I would
agree, but there have been times when the North was down.  Not to mention
the Moors, the Ottomans, the Magyars, and various other interlopers from
the South and East.

        Happy New Year,

        Warren


On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 Shahijm2@aol.com wrote:

> Sure -- isn't it more comforting to think that we live in a world of Heroes 
> and Villians?  And that you can identify them by their appearance?
> 
> If we aren't quite ready for progress, maybe we could settle for equal 
> opportunity bigotry instead.  Maybe what we need is a couple of thousand 
> years of racism towards anyone of white Northern European descent.  Maybe it 
> will have a cancelling-out effect and then we'll finally have fairness and 
> equality in the world.
> 
>